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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
OF WHAT USE ARE HATS?

The hats that our modern millinery
shops offer for sale do not give COM
fort to the wearers. They are made
only for display.
Unless hats are essential to health,
the best way to economic is to dis
card all together or simplify them.
The hair the women wear and their
rats, are sufficient to protect their
heads during ordinary weather More
than one-half of the women on earth
do not wear hats.
The kinds of hats the women wear
in this country vary in sizes and styles
at different times. The changes are
made to have women feel what they
bought last season is out-of-date and
now they ought to have something
new.
Some hats are too small to keep
sunshine or rain from falling on the
women's faces, while others are so
big as to keep persons behind from
the view in front. Before wearing
them much valuable tine has 10 be
spent in their adjustment.
When travelling on trains they pre-
vent the wearers from resting their
heads on the backs of the chairs.
In packing they take up too much
space. II an unexpected rain falls,
those hats cannot help the wearers
but often spoil their dresses by the
water colors dropping from colored
flowers or fruits used in trimming.
Some hats require sharp hat pins
which may cause the users to be
arrested in some cities.
Many women here have proved that
they can go to and from school with
out hats. If they try, they can go
to church or shopping without hats,
too.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
A FASCINATION OF REPORTING
w. II. Agnew, Now 20 Years Old, Once
Liked to Interview the Girls.

Whenever | see a reporter going
through crowd on a train getting To-
calls it reminds me of the seven years
| spent writing local news for daily
in Iowa." said W. H. Agnew, a travel
ing man 20 years Old, this morning.
That was from 1875 until 1882. and
it might have been until 1910 if my
doctor hadn't advised travelling to re-
store my health. | found that selling
goods was just as fascinating as ask
ing pretty girls where they were going.
so | am still travelling over territory
from Minneapolis to New York. and
from Georgia to Louisiana. OF the
states in my territory, like Missouri
and Kansas best"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Owed Him $40 ANYWAY,

A sweet young thing and a palpitat-
ing youth entered the curate's study
and laid SO note on his desk.
What's that for?" said the curate
Your wedding fee" said the youth
I'VE were married day before yester-
day"
But | didn't marry YOU"
No said the youth. but YOU
helped us almost as much as the man
who did. l guess you didn't know
anything about it at the time, but
you prevented interference from two
sets OF angry parents. Hints dropped
in their hearing made them think we
were going to be married by you at
o'clock and sent them scurrying
down here to head us off. That gave
us chance to slip away and be mar
ried by somebody else. For the good
turn you did us please accept $40.
Before the curate could protest the
couple had gone and he was left
lingering the easiest SO thar ever
had come his way.-New York Sun.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
PREFERS BALLOON TO AERoPLAN
Veteran Pilot Says Dirieble Is Like
STAGE Coach.

The balloon has an enthusiastic
champion in A Leo Stevens, whose
conclusions are drawn from very wide
experience. Mr.. Stevens has made
more than leo gas flights, and has
take naloft ten times as many pas
sengers as any other sky-pilot,
licensed or otherwise.
There is sense of freedom and
quiet progress about a dirigibe ba-
loon flight, said Mr.. Stevens. "A
dirigible flight gives you ample time
to enjoy your journey You float
along at comfortable fifteen miles
an hour or so, and the great panorama
beneath unfolds itself gradually. You
have time to enjoy the marvellous
scene and the curious unexpected
effects of perspective from this point
of view. A balloon trip is free from
all sense OF hurry.
AN aeroplane, on the other hand
carries you along at an express train
speed of forty miles an hour or more
The earth is swept past you with
bewildering -rapidity. AS rule, an
aeroplane does not rise to any great
height and you rush along compara-
lively close to the ground. There is
little chance to look about. You have
none of the extended views possible
from the higher attitudes travelled by
balloons. A ride by dirigible may be
compared to an old-fashioned coach
ing trip,-wnen you roll smoothly
along and, from your elevated seat.
command view of the surrounding
country. An aeroplane flight is more
like the dash of limited express
train with its fleeting glimpses of the
scenery.
An aeroplane seat is cramped, and
you mold on for dear life. The basket
OF banoon or the staging of dirigi
bic gives you room to move about
You can Keep log of your progress
trip and eat your dinner; even sleep
with perfect comfort There is, be
side, far greater sense of safety in
balloon, contrary to a very general
impression. Personally l am greatly
distressed by height. l cannot stand
on the edge of high building for
fear of falling, but l feel perfectly
comfortable at any altitude in bal
loon. The wind eddies about high
building and, as you imagine, threatens
to pull you over. 1t is much the same
with an aeroplane. A balloon, travel
ing with the wind, is absolutely free
from this sensational. G. Collins in
Review of Reviews
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
CHOOSE YOUR OWN BOOKS.

Have you ever learned to read-not
merely to call words-but to read with
satisfaction, comfort and understand
ing?
The ordinary reader is like phonO-
graph. He takes up a certain book,
which some one has said to be good.
and grinds through it with pain and
torture, getting more pain than salts
faction.
If some one told sou to go ont and
eat bitter herb, just because he
thought it was good, would you go out
and eat it too? Why not show enough
individuality TO choose your own
books? If you do not like Burns. then
why not say so?
Learn to read and to read well, but
choose your own books. Think as you
Itdu. uOuSujiSSS 4GdulilS iS WI Sc
than worthless. II you cannot keep
your mind on what you are reading,
quit reading. Reading as an exercise
for the lips is a past art. Reading
must be done either for love or for
information.
The reading habit can be cultivated.
The earlier this is done the better.
If a boy finds satisfaction in borrow
ing into books to the neglect of his
chores. he should not be reprimanded
too strongly. He is forming a good
habit. Reading is not an art that
can be acquired in a few days. Let
the boy read. only see that ne reads
books worthy OF his attention.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06

May High School Day.
May % club in The Man on the
Box"
May to 14-Editors' Week.
May 13-School of Education stunt
in the auditorium.
May 14-May Day festival, golf
links. (Auditorium in case of rain)
May 16-Lecture by DR.. J. W. iiud-
son on The Passion Play" university
auditorium, for benefit OF Charity Or
ganiZation society.
May l., IS, 19-Convention Of Ode
Fellows.
May Observation-Disclosures track meet
on Rollins Field.
May 26 and 27-University high
school commencement, auditorium
May so and 31-Convention of
State Association of City Letter Car
riers.
May 80 to June Final examina-
tiOns.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
WHAT DID MANSFIELD MEAN?
Edward Abeles in Playing Baron
ChevriaI Will Find Out, Perhaps.

When Edward Abeles came to New
York from st. Louis he was a sort
of major domo to the late Colonel
COckrell. editor-in-chief of the New
York World. He had been studying
law, and in the old days in St. Louis
had made quite reputation as an
amateur actor. Reading Blackstone
irked his soul, and he implored his
employer to introduce him to some
one who could give him chance on
the Broadway stage. Colonel Cock
rell tried to dissuade the would-be
actor, but his protests were useless,
and he finally gave AbeleS letter to
Richard Mansfield, at that time living
in the old Croisic hotel. Abeles
FASTENED to present the letter the
morning after receiving it, and was
received by Mansfield himself, clad
in suit of blue polka dot pafamas.
We'll, young man, what can l do
for you?" asked Mansfield after read
ing the letter
Il wish to go on the stage" said
Abeles. whose knees were shaking as
he noted the scowl on the players
face
What have you ever done?" de-
manded Mansfield in voice calcu-
lated to frighten Abeles into fit.
'I-I-I-have played in a number
of the old comedies at amateur per-
formances," suffered the boy; be
sides | have done limitations of you"
In what play?" shouted Mansfield
IN his customarily tragic way.
As Baron Chevrial in the banquet
scene in "A Partisan Romance
Let's see you do it again!"
Abeles was, as now, an excellent
mimic, and he read the famous lines
in precisely the same voice and with
precisely the same expression as
Mansfield had done hundreds of times
When he had finished, the actor sig
nified that the interview was over,
and as the crestfallen Abeles was
backing toward the door, shouted at
him; 1T doesn't seem possible"
Mansfield is dead now. Abeles is a
star. This week he is to attempt
Baron Chevrial for the second time
and try to find out just what Mans:
field meant.-New York Morning Tele-
graph.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
tual faculty of youths: -
If it was not wrong for our fore

If it was not wrong for our fore
fathers to applaud and. reward with
bronze statutes and inscribed stones
the soldiers whose mission was to
destroy. 1t is only right for the pres
mt and coming generations to do like
wise to the faithful teachers whose
nobier and more useful service often
demand greater risk and courage.
The people who have held together
the longest as nation are the people
who honor their parents and teachers.
They believe the world will get better
when children are better educated.
As the principal function of the par
ents is to perpetuate the race, and
Of teachers to educate, they should lC-
ceive equal respect and memory FROM
the youths. Although many parents
are not receiving their just reward,
more teachers are neglected.
In every large community or in
stitUtion. there have been and will
be teachers whose long and unseifisk
service would not cease until their
lives were ended or health broken.
Their faithfulness and self-sacrifice
should be recognized in more con
crete and outward form than monetary
reward They should be honored in
bronze or stones, in educational build
tngs or public grounds, in order to
give glory to the community, examples
TO their offspring, inspiration to the
succeeding generations, and encour
asement to those who are about to
enter the same profession.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
BIND COUNTRY TOGETHER
More Than 100000 Miles Used by
People of United States.

More than 100000 miles of single
wire is used by the people of the
United States in communicating with
each other. OF this amount about 49,,
100000 miles is operated by telephone
systems, the rest by the telegraph
companies. The length is enough to
encircle the globe at the equator 600
times.
In fact it must be even greater By
this time, as the above figures, though
recently published by the Census
Office, refer to 1907 At the 1880
census the telephone companies re-
ported 34,305 miles of wire, about one
ninth of the mileage of the telegraph
companies. In 1907 the telephone
mileage was eight times as great as
the telegraph.
In the amount of business done, the
sum paid in salaries and wages and
the capital invested in 1907 the tele-
phone business was little over three
and One-half times as extensive as
the telegraph industry, and during
that year it furnished employment
for more than five times as many per-
sons.
Between 1902 and 1907 there was All
Between 1902 and 1907 there was an
addition of S,09S,91S miles of wire for
the use of the telephone systems as
compared with an increase of but
259,6l1 in the mileage of owned and
leased wire for commercial telegraph
purposes. The increase in the wire
mileage of the telephone systems dur
ing the five years referred to was
more than six times as great as the
total amount of wire added to the
telegraph business since 1880.
The use of telephones by railroads
exclusively in connection with the op-
eratiOns of the roads has increased
rapidly since 1902 Although the
electric interurban roads early recog,
nlZed the advantages of the telphone
for despatching purposes the larger
steam railroads have been disinclined
to substitute the telephone for the
telegraph.
The bulletin points out that gives
the first statistics for the commercial
wireless system already established.
and states that they were operated at
a loss of S47,62S in 1907.
There were six commercial wireless
telegraph systems in 1907 operating
l22 tower stations, located at most of
the large ports of the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, the Gulf of Mexico.
the great lakes and in Hawaii. They
transmitted 1861 wireless messages.
Over the telegraph wires in 1907 there
were flashed 36S,470. 800 messages. Of
which 5,S69,3f7 were cablegrams.
New York Sun.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Pi Beta Phis to Entertain.

The Pi Beta Phi soroity will enter
tain these young women High School
Day: Miss Middlebrook of Kansas
City, Miss Dorothea Frazier of st
Louis, Miss Ruth Harrison and Miss
Virginia Smith CT Marshall, Miss
Helen Gilgen of kirkwood and Miss
Irene Canterbury of Kansas City.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Wants an Aviation Meet.

The Aero club of the University of
Pennsylvania will finish its first aero
plane within a month. 1t is ready to
compete in an aviation contest against
any other university in the United
States.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06

Leading professional men, business
men and educators from every section
OF the country have been invited to
attend conference on education to
be held at Little Rock, Arkansas, this
week.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
M. U. CATTLE FAMED ABROAD
Dean Munnford Gets Letter of Inquiry
From Porto Rico University.

A letter has been received by F.
b. Mumford, dean of the College of
Agriculture at the University of Mis-
souri,, from the university of Porto
Rico at Rio Piedras, asking the price
of some of the Holstein cattle which
are the property of the department
here. The letter was written by r.
H. Mason, who was graduated from
the University of Missouri in 1909
Mr.. Mason is dean of the department
of dairy husbandry at the university
of Porto Rico.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
an. U. scHoo. BEST OF ALL
Massachusetts Mans Opinion of the
Agricultural College Here.

Massachusetts man. after analyZ-
ing bulletins and reports of the agri-
cultural schools OF the country. has
written 10 F. B. Mumtord, dean of
the Missouri School of Agricultural,
that the Missouri school is the best
of all. He desires to take a short
course, and has inquired of Dean Num-
ford as to the most practical course
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06

When Columbia is connected with
other towns by electric roads a great
part of the university students Will
go home week end 10 their sick
mothers"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
REMEMBER OUR OLD TEACHERS.

There is no other class of persons
who deserve most, but receive least
honor as those humble and often poor
men and women, of love and wisdom,
who devote their lives to the develop
ment of moral character and intellec-
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Tufts College to Get Estate.

Tufts College has been recently
made residuary legatee to an estate
valued at half million dollars by
the will OF John Everett Smith OF
Norwood. The widow is to have the
use of the bulk OF the estate during
her life
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Do Tell.

There was an old lady named Fitch.
Who heard loud snoring, at which
She took off her hat
And found that a rat
Had fallen asleep at the switch.
Princeton Tiger.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
journal of HriroipoIoov Soop Ont

Journal of CriminoIogy Soon Out.
In May the first number of the
Journal of the American Institute of
Criminal Law and Criminology will be
published. The editor-in-chief is James
W. Garner, professor of political
science in the University of Illinois.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Bryce Made Phi Delta Phi.

AS the climax of a strenuous visit to
Iowa City, the Right Honorable James
Bryce, British ambassador to the
United States, was initiated into the
Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Would Be Costly Pleasure.

THE Case Tech of the Case School
of Applied Science, reports that the
athletic field burning mechanics
books. Not quite at $3.50 per.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06

Baseball Free to Minnesota Co-eds
At every baseball game at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, women under
graduates will be admitted free of
charge. The coaches have made this
request on the ground that the players
would work harder
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Built Airships That Would FLY.

Eight students of the Carnegie Tech
nical Schools have succeeded in build
ing an airship that will really fly.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Jordan Favors Adoption of Rugby.

President David Starr Jordan of
Stanford University would have all
American colleges adopt the English
game OF rugby.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
The Harvard Classics.

Books that used to be read fifty
years ago and now are laid on five
foot shelf-Harvard Lampoon.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Special Issue Of Daily Cardinal.

The twentieth anniversary of the
founding OF the Daily Cardinal. Wis
consin's newspaper, was marked re-
Gently by special issue of twenty
pages.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
0eIinquents' Names Are Posted.

The names of those who refuse TO
pay class rues at Syracuse University.
Syracuse, n. Y, are posted on bull
letin board.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Scholarships to Bandmen.

ScHoIaIShipS 10 5ahdmen.
Syracuse University has placed its
band on permanent basis by giving
each man who qualities as member
a scholarship valued at $50 a year
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Democratic Club at Nebraska.

A university Democratic club has
been organized at the University OF
Nebraska. The object of the club is
to arouse interest among student
Democrats.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
$40 GOO Monument for Dakota u.

Carnegie has donated $4,000 for
another library monument to be con-
nected to the University of Dakota.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Sunday Afternoon Receptions.

In order to become better acquaint-
ed with the Harvard undergraduates,
President Lowell is holding Sunday
afternoon receptions.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06

Roosevelt startes the style for the
short and ugly word" in Washington.
Since then things don't seem quit
natural without it.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
News Of Other Colleges

DR.. ]. d. S. Riggs has recently re-
signed the presidency OF ShurtIeff Col
lege, Upper Alton, Ill.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Ouch!

You can jolly some people, but you
can't Guy de Maupassant!-Yale Re
cord.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Soccer Football at GrinneII.

Soccer football is to be made the
interclass sport at Grinnell College
next fall
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06

Indiana Rules Two Sports Enough.
Indiana University has a ruling that
an athlete shall not compete in more
than two sports at the same time.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06

Governor Hughes an LC. D. Of Penn.
The University of Pennsylvania has
conferred the degree of doctor of
laws upon Governor Hughes, of New
York.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Fire Destroys Dartmouth Dcrmitory.

ire DESTROYS DARTMOUTH DCrmltCry.
Fire week ago partially destroyed
one Of the dormitories at Dartmouth,
With a loss OF 10000. No one was
injured.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06

Students Union at Ohio WESLEYAN.
a students union has been organ
lied of non-fraternity men,
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
Princetonian in Associated Press.

The Daily Princetonian. the daily of
Princeton. has been made member
OF the Associated Press.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-06
CALENDAR AND
ANNOUNCE MENTS
Calendar.

May High School Day.
May % club in The Man on
.ny-
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-07-08
MISSISSIPPI boy IS
HIGHLY COMPLIMENTED
IN. o. Picayune.)

w. ~.
There is considerable interest here
and in Mississippi regarding the ar
chitect who drew the plans for the
new art museum to be built in the
city park. The firm is Labenbaum &
Marx, of Chicago. Sam A. Marx, who
drew the plans, is native of Natchez,
Miss, and is "a years old. He was
graduated from the school at Exeter,
N. H., and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology at Boyston, and spent
a year and a half in Europe, studying
at the Beaux Arts in Paris and else
where.
Mr.. Labenbaum is 81 years old, and
is from California. The two young
men were in school together and trav-
eled together, and after their return
from Europe selected Chicago as the
best place to begin their professional
work. They have been there only.
eight months, but have made a hit
and have designed number of fine
buildings and have a large business.
Mr.. Marx is related to the Weis and
Goldsmith families in this city, and
is well known here.