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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
“LAUGHS FROM LIFE”
Traveler: “When is the next train due,
please ?”
Lazy Porter: “Mister, vve ain’t particular
around here. We take ’em as they come.”
Morehouse student covering up his Ford
on a rainy day, with a blanket. Freshman
looking on: “Dou’t cover it up, son, I saw
what it was.”
Freshman: “My brother is a diamond
cutter.”
Upp
er-Classman :
“Oh, lie’
s in
the je
■wel-
ry Ini*
uness ? ”
Fre:
slunan : “Not
exactly
; lie
cuts
the
grass
on a baseball
field.”
Girl
: “I have a
hunch.”
Boy
: “Really? I
thought
you
were
just
round
-shouldered.”
Bro
ke Student: “
A friend
in
need,
is a
friend
to feed.”
Teacher: “Name the common taxes and
tell who pays them/’
Freshman: “A real estate tax is one paid
by all real estate men.”
Teacher : “What operating expenses would
3 r ou provide for in a budget for the house
hold ? ’’
Pupil: “Do you mean physical or men
tal operations?”
Another Pupil: “Supposing no one in the
family has an operation, what would you
do then?”
Heard in chemistry laboratory: “Oh, Miss
MacDonald, look at this prettv red partici
pate.”
Teacher: “What would you add to carry
to express past tense?”
Pupil (sleepily) : “Er-r-er—Carrie who?”
Man sitting in Chinese restaurant: “I
want some stew.”
Waiter : “Here you are, sir.”
Alan: "What kind of meat is this? Quack,
quack?”
Waiter : “No sir ; bow, wow.”
Catherine: “Where is Thelma?”
Annie: “She’s gone to New Jersey.”
Catherine (surprised) : “Gone to New Jer
sey? I thought she was going to Atlantic
City.”
MISS FRANKIE CLARK
The whole student body has regretted the
accident occurring about three weeks ago
in which Miss Frankie Clark was injured.
She is convalescing to our great delight. The
college group, especially the Junior Class of
which she is a member, have tried to make
her stay in the hospital a little less lone
some by sending her flowers and cards, and
by visiting her. We shall be extremely hap
py when she is able to walk again, and join
us in the campus activities.
CAMPUS CUSTOMS
By Ida Belle Prater, ’31
Campus customs may be compared with
the customs of the home in many ways.
There are duties to be done that are similar
to the home work. The great difference
between campus duties and home duties is
that on the campus the duty is never to be
forgotten, nor should the student have so
much other work to do that she neglects
it. If she does neglect her duty, she is sent
for while in school to return to her hall and
do it. In the home, when one is going to
school and has something to do which she
thinks is more important than her duty work,
or just as important, she usually lets the
work go, because she knows that some
one else will do the work for her. Thus
the campus rules strengthen the memory,
and aid the student in making every moment
useful.
On the campus everyone who is physically
able does her own laundry. This is a time
which everyone dreads, because one day in
every week she must arise from her “flowery
bed of ease,” and go to the laundry and re
main until she finishes her work without
saying one word. The washing is done in
the morning, and the ironing later on in the
day, but in the home we usually wash one
day and iron another.
The campus is almost a town of itself.
Almost everything needed can be bought on
the campus ; there are entertainments given;
and the students issue papers which are
very beneficial to the residents who did not
see the different happenings, to the outside
people who are interested in the campus, and
to those who desire to be editors. Everyone
who desires to and whose work is suitable
may have it put in the papers. The chief
difference between these papers and other
papers is that the campus papers deal with
the campus alone, and other papers deal with
the entire world. Although campus customs
seem to be very strange as compared to
other customs, they prove to be very help
ful.
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
By Etta L. Haynes
It would be amusing, I am sure, to a
stranger, to be the unseen visitor in one of
the rooms where, each night, Spelman girls
group themselves to discuss their Christmas
shopping. The discussion always opens with
the questions: “What shall I give Jim, moth
er, dad and my roommates?” In considering
this there is always the problem of stretch
ing the Christmas shopping allowance. The
general line is : “Nobody expects much from
us since we are merely school girls.”
The next difficulty after deciding what
to give, is the shopping. Shopping is always
a pleasure to most girls, whether it is win
dow or cash. The shops are artistically dec
orated and give one wonderful suggestions.
But there is always the questions: “Should
I pay that amount for this?” Oh “Can I af
ford that?”
Shopping for roommates always presents
problems, since they insist on accompanying
you to town, or, going with someone else
and you see them looking at, or purchas
ing the same article you had planned to
give them.
If you finally succeed in getting the gifts
home, the next problem is where to hide
them. This question is answered by the
neatly wrapped packages carried each day to
the trunk room, and stored away in the
girls’ trunks.
The statement that Kress, Grand, and
Rich’s (basements) are receiving a large
amount of Spelman trade, may be easily
verified by the mysterious packages brought
on the campus each Saturday, wrapped in
paper bearing the above names.
Each week the mystery deepens and sus
pense increases. Every girl is anxious to
know what is in the beautiful boxes that
are coming in daily and being carefully stored
away. But only December 25th can tell.
TUSKEGEE BAND AT
SPELMAN
By Ermatine Hill
The Tuskegee Band, announcing the foot
ball game between Atlanta University and
themselves to be played December 2, arrived
on Spelman Campus Thursday, December 1.
The band, directed by Captain Driver, play
ed music that brought all free people to the
campus.
The band arranged themselves in a circle
around the flag pole in the center of the
campus between Rockefeller and Laura Spel
man halls. They played two popular se
lections, one Tuskegee song and gave one
yell. All students and teachers came hurry
ing, skurrying to that place. After the en
tertainment was over they reassembled in
their busses and drove away, broadcasting
as they went.
TRUCK-LOADS OF CHEER!
By AIary DuBose
Toot! Toot! Went the whistle of the ex
press and parcel post trucks beginning the
day before Thanksgiving and continuing
through the day. It was the annual arrival
of boxes to help in the celebration. Every
year at this time one may expect to see
the loaded trucks come and go. There are
many anxious girls peeping and peering to
see if the car bears their boxes. The good
things to eat and to wear which arrive in
the truck loads of boxes make the girls on
Spelman campus feel that they are at home
again, living in luxury, enjoying plenty of
food and delightful friendships.
PIGEON MANNERS
(Continued from Page Three)
“Alice, isn't it wonderful and interesting
how one pigeon respects the rights of an
other?”
“It’s even better than we do, for often
we forget and don’t give others the rights
due them.”
“I’m really ashamed, Alice,” Alary said,
“that these little pigeons do have such in
teresting manners. I know we’ll encourage
them on the campus.”
“Let us have pigeon manners at least.”