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A 8 The Campus Mirror -AT THf. or m. (LUf, Y. W. C. A. Notes Frances Lawson, ’33 A series of achievement talks about Negro women lias been attracting interest in the Sunday evening meetings since January 24th. Matilda McMahon presented signifi cant events in the life of Harriet Beecher Tubman, a Negro woman who bad the cour age to give definite help in the smuggling of slaves out of the South by means of the system of “underground railways”. Edna Bethea presented the life of Nora Gordon, the first Spelman student to be sent by the American Board of Missions to do missionary work in the Congo region in Africa. Minnie Harris sketched the life of Meta Warwick Fuller, the sculptor, who in her depiction of horror in the figures that she creates is able to suggest the suffering of persons who have experienced blasted ambi tions or disappointed hopes. She traced Mrs. Fuller’s early accomplishments in America, the influence she received from her studies in France, and her present endeavors to bet ter the expression of her earlier theme, that of horror. It is hoped that this series of programs will help to stimulate interest in creative work in the girls on this campus. Sounds in a Barnyard Minnie L. Pinson, ’35 In the afternoon when I used to be in the midst of a very interesting ball game—be tween 4:30 and 5:00 o’clock—I could always hear my grandmother’s soft voice calling me from my play. I would pretend that I had not heard the voice of my grandmother and would continue to play. She would call so loudly again that people farther away than I could hear her. I would leave my play mates very reluctantly and go to join in the regular routine of feeding the cows, chickens, pigs, and the horse. When I reached the barnyard I realized that I did not mind coming to assist with the work so much, after all. I enjoyed seeing and hearing the milk fall and splash into the pails as grandmother milked, but, best of all, I was thrilled to hear the baby calf ba, ba, ba, as my brother held him away from his mother while grand mother milked the mother cow. I loved to gather the eggs and listen to the chickens cackle and the baby chicks say “peep-peep” when I disturbed them from their roosting places. I was always afraid to feed the pigs because they squealed so loudly that I spilled their food and grandmother always scolded me for doing it. I listened with surprise to the neighing of our pet horse to express his appreciation for the food that brother was about to give him. As soon as the horse was fed one could hear the loud crushing of hard cars of corn and the rattling of dry hay as he ate. There was one task that almost made me hold my breath in suspense until it was completed—-that was drawing water from the well for the stock. There was a large oaken bucket with a heavy chain attached to it which made a very rhythmical sound as it wrapped around a huge windlass while the bucket was lowered into the well. Best of all, I liked to hear the water gurgling through the pipe on its way to the barnyard. I used to wait until the water was poured into the barrel at the well and then run with all my strength racing with it to the barnyard. When the milking and feeding were com pleted I had the job of washing the milk pails, but I made so much noise by drop ping them on the floor I think it would be better if I said that T had the job of clang ing milk pails on the floor instead. My playmates always knew when the milking was finished by the clattering, ringing sounds I made in putting away the milk utensils. They said: “Minnie has an orchestra re hearsal every afternoon when the cows say ‘moo, m-o-o-o’ and the calf says ‘ba, ba’— then sudden shrill sounds made by the pigs to melloAV the sounds of cackling hens and crowing roosters.” I did not like to hear my playmates tease me in this manner, but if you had been in the neighborhood I think you would have agreed with them. Recreation Among Negroes (Continued From Page 6) inferior in size and equipment the Negroes themselves ought to take the initiative in furnishing as many of these facilities as pos sible without the question of gain or com mercial interest in mind at all. Parks, play grounds, concert facilities, and ballgrounds require very little expense in their operation. The conditions under which many of the theaters are offered to Negroes in the South ern cities have repelled many of the better class of Negroes who otherwise might be at tracted. As a solution of this, I think that if the Negroes would support their own thea ters which thejr have now in operation, it would be possible for them to organize better theaters in the future. The dance halls, pool- rooms, and cabarets, which are poorly super vised cause many evils. These facilities are highly commercialized and are organized for the purpose of gain or exploitation, and as a result in many cases the products of the entertainments are not only cheap themselves but they also cheapen the consumers. This problem is one that can be solved by insisting upon proper supervision and management of these facilities. Now since we see the needs of the Negroes in regard to their forms of recreation and since it has been brought out that there are ways of meeting these needs, I wish that Negroes would feel it their own responsi bility to make improvements, wherever pos sible, upon their present forms of recreation. If these suggestions were put into practice I am sure that the difficulties of the prob lem of recreation among Negroes would be greatly reduced. Announcements Coming! Magic Through the Ages, in which Rupert Howard, both a brilliantly entertaining lecturer and an acknowledged pastinaster of the Art of Magic, will relate the interesting history of magic and super stition. This will include such interesting items as Magic in Greece and Rome, ex plaining the Cups and Bells Trick, a feat popular in ancient Rome and exhibited to this day by street performers; also reveal ing the cunning of fire-eaters, ventriloquists, and jugglers; Magic in the Middle Age-, Early English Magic, and Modern Magic. Interspersed throughout the lecture are dem onstrations of The Ethereal Wand, An Early Card Feat, Fast or Loose, and numerous other feats equally as interesting. Oriental Magic based upon such tricks as Snake Charming, Dancing on Broken Glass, and The Flying Bird Cage is a sequel to Magic Through the Ages. Mr. Howard has pre viously charmed his audiences by bis ex cellent delivery and graceful and well- mastered demonstration. If you are curious enough to want to know the theory of magic, you can’t afford to miss this entertainment at Spelman College on February 27th. Watch the bulletin board for the hour. The French department of Atlanta Uni versity Laboratory High School will present two French plays and a French musical pageant on February 26, 1932, at 7:30 p.m. in Howe Theater, Spelman College. With out a doubt you will enjoy Le Medecin Malgre Tam, Les Trois Souhaitz, and Mal- hrougli S’en-vat-en Guerre. Admission free. The exhibition of paintings by Mr. Hale Woodruff in Laura Spelman Hall during the Aveeks of January 17-31 was well at tended by members of the Spelman commu nity and their friends. 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