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The Campus Mirror
The Spelman Flower
Market
Alena Erby, '33
On our campus there is, every Saturday
morning, a flower market. Now that the
country is suffering from the depression we
should feel proud that there are people on
our campus and in our community whose
souls are uplifted by their love of beauty.
It is understood that here on our campus
and in our community money is scarce;
therefore a tribute should be given to those
students who sacrifice that they may buy
flowers and enjoy their beauty.
r fhe success of our flower market does
not depend on one factor alone, but on three
equally important. They are the producer,
the saleslady and the customer.
The producer is a person whose love of
the beauty of flowers is so deep in her that
she spends a large part of her time trying
to raise them. Flowers need much care,
but she does not tire of working among
them.
The saleslady has a deep sincerity which
she uses to impress upon her customer"
how much worse the world would be with
out the beauty of flowers. She wears a
smile which shows how favorably that
beauty affects her. There are salesladies
who can convince to such a great extent
as to make one buy things he does not
want. Not so with ours, but her sincerity
and the beauty of her flowers make one
want to buy.
The customers live on Spelman campus
and in Spelman community. Their interest
in the campus and in the beauty the
flowers bring makes them look forward to
the coming of the flowers.
See them displayed there on Rockefeller
steps in grand array! Large baskets of
chrysanthemums—white, yellow, lavender
and red. Marigolds of several kinds. Zin
nias—scarlet, golden, white or pink. Every
kind of garden flower in its season. The
memory of these displays of beauty will
stay with us when we are far away from
Spelman.
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Fhe Chicken Barracks
Eleanor Frazier, '34
Spelman College has always been inter
ested in rural people. Scores of her gradu
ates have gone into rural communities and
done splendid work. In order that the col
lege may be an even greater factor in meet
ing the needs in this great field of human
interest, President Read has inaugurated
specific courses in Rural Education, with a
view to giving prospective rural teachers a
clearer understanding of the problems and
opportunities in particular, and in giving a
more wholesome and sympathetic attitude
towards rural life in general.
In connection with, and to facilitate the
work in Rural Education, the college has set
aside several plots of land for practical
projects in growing vegetables and flowers.
Projects in beautifying the home and school
surroundings will also be conducted.
To provide necessary housing for the
poultry project another of the old barracks—
the last of the lot save one—has been torn
down. “There is excitement, but no mount
ing enthusiasm in tearing down a house,”
says an editorial in the Saturday Review of
Literature for November 5th. But, true as
this may be, and is in the case cited, it is
not true in the use made of the material
from this, next to the last of the Civil War
Barracks of the Union soldiers. The ma
terials were carefully salvaged and after
supplying nearly all the materials for the
new poultry project, except woven wire, a
large quantity of material was sold to be
used in building other houses. The poultry
yard is just south of where the dismantled
building stood on Ella Street, southwest of
Spelman Campus.
The new chicken barracks, a building
easily seen from the street, is 110 feet long
and 24 feet wide. It is divided into five
rooms, 20x24 feet, a store room for feed,
10x14 feet, and a room, 10x10 feet, in which
the attendant can be sheltered. To one pass
ing along Ella Street, the main building
looks like a row of cabins standing with no
space between. One would know by seeing
the beautiful diamond wire fence which en
closes the house and yard that these are not
cabins. The fence is six feet high, with a
barbed wire flange of 18 inches.
For the project the college has bought
500 single comb White Leghorns of the Tail
ored strain, and 100 single comb Rhode Is
land Reds of the original Donaldson strain.
These pullets are the finest that could be
found in the state. If you will look care
fully at the fowls you will notice that yellow
color is less pronounced in the legs and
beaks of some than in others. This paleness is
due to the fact that those fowl are good
layers, the yellow pigment of egg yolks be
ing of the same chemical composition as the
yellow in legs, skin and beaks.
Each room in the barracks is equipped
with electric lights, water and an individual
ventilator system. Much attention is paid to
the feeding and housing of the fowl. Since
Gay Autumn
Edna L. Banks, ’3(5
Brown and gold and orange,
Leaves of once verdant hue
Tell each a story as down
They fall,
A story to me, to you.
Morning fades,
And signs of evening
In shades of golden brown,
Mantle the earth
In varicolored leaves—
A gay array.
No fierce winds blow
To flit them into space,
And they, like dancing nymphs,
Lie quite at ease.
They’re stirring now—a hint
That soon the King
Will reign stern-faced and strong,
Beneath his somber skies.
Then comes the first
Brisk dance of autumn wind.
A scurry here and there
To catch a flying hat,
A group of note book sheets,
A cai’d.
With sting and bite
Jack Frost will come to visit—
In stillest night
When no one is aware.
On the hills of Spring
Old winter sought
To dally late, last year,
Killing her fresh buds and leaves
With bitter, biting cold,
Infringing on dear Spring
Who now, to balance things,
Is “prettying-up” November.
they are never permitted to go out of doors,
codliver oil, cabbage and other fresh foods
are included in their diet to supply the neces
sary vitamins which sunlight carries. Dis
infectants are used to destroy certain flies
which are disease carriers for chickens the
same as mosquitoes are for man.
Every set of military barracks has to have
a hospital and there is one in the enclosure
for the chickens. There is daily inspection
for the fowl, and all not in perfect health
are removed to the chicken hospital and
treated.
In the installing of this project there has
been practiced every wise economy possible.
Since the building is for educational pur
poses and not commercial, the eggs can not
be sold, but furnish a fine supply for the
boarding departments of the institution.
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