Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-22
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This is the story of the house the co-eds
built. They shined shoes in public, at 10
cents shine; they sold lemonade, served
lunches, did housework and all manner Of
things, but they raised thousand dollars
and built the house.
Determination on the part of the goods at
Michigan Agricultural college built "The
Flower Pot" That is it's trade name. lit
orally, it is practice house" for senior
students in the home economics course. It
ranks as one of the two three campus
practice houses in the country.
1.-THE Flower Pot" is a tea room built in
remarkable building on the M. A. G. campus.
1t has dining room and kitchen and some
homely homemade fixtures. Breakfast,
luncheon and dinner are served. The food is
furnished from the M. A. G. farm and by the
boys and girls club, which are conducted
throughout the state under the direction of
the extension department of the college, Sem
ior students, starting in September, will do
all the work. 1t is called a practice house
because the students, after nearly completing
their course in home economics in the kitchen
Of the college buildings, can try out their art
in the kitchen of the Flower Pot. The tea
room is to be a non-profit making institution
when it gets we'll under way. That is, it will
be non-profit making except for the few
needy girls who are attempting to work their
way through college, and will be allowed to
do in the kitchen and dining room of the
Flower Pot
About $1,000 was needed to convert the
old building into tea room. The students
and alumni who wanted practice house
didn't have the thousand. To- led by men,
bers of the Omicron M, an honorary home
economics sorority, the co-eds went out into
the highways and by-ways of the college
campus, sold lemonade, shined shoes and did
various things until the money was raised.
Glacial Speed
The speed of Alaskan glaciers is being
studied by Professor William S. Cooper, Of
the University Of Minnesota. He is making
special examination of Muir glacier at Ola.
cier bay.
Muir glacier has receded sixty miles In the
last 1877 years. When Vancouver visited the
glacier in 1894 he found the ice extended to
the mouth of Glacier bay.
Later John Muir left his scientific observa.
lions of the glacier, and five years ago Pro-
fessor Cooper marked out areas there for
study. He plans further observations at five
year intervals.
Fortified with these records, Professor
Cooper hopes to determine the time that has
elapsed since many parts Of the earth now
free were covered with ice.
Heroic Cat
| The French press pays tribute to a hero Of
! the war, whose death has just been announc-
| ed, according to Reuter- dispatch from Paris
| to "The London Daily News
The hero in question was named Diamond,
| and cat who attached himself to the
| French in the lines before Amiens. Every
| day Diamond might be seen threading his
way through the entanglements to the Ger
man front trench.
The Poilus were afraid that some harm
might come to their mascot, and in order to
protect him they tied packet of cigarettes
| h hpf 10 cfa tn6
| daily ramble, bearing the words: 81 bring
| you cigarettes; do not kill me-" Diamond
| being war veteran, had right to a COM
Portable home when the armistice was sign
| ed, and was sent to an animals home super
| intended by the Countess Yurkevich at Neuil-
! ly, where he has now died.
| Unhappy Hermit
| Bereft of his wild bird pets, F. H. Rhom-
berg, Dubuque's nature loving hermit, is a
| changed man.
| For more than score of years he has sur
| rounded himself in his home on rolling bot
| tom land of the Mississippi river with song
birds that learned to love their captivity.
But as the years on the state lawmakers
| forbade caging song birds, and recently the
! old man was arrested, fined and the birds
set free.
In one cage larger than the rest a brill
| liant Kentucky cardinal fingered when re-
Pcent visitor called. It's door was open.
HE will never co. said the old man, WHIP
| ing HIS UrOW WITH a DduQdnd as ne SdZ6U
upon the row upon of empty cages HE
is the one friend I have left, because the law
tells me that | am abusing my friends the
birds, for whom l have always labored and
loved
"There you see,'' and going to the window
that overlooks an orchard, meadow and strip
of rolling hills he pointed to host of bird
houses and natural bathing pools.
IF that is abusing the things I love-" he
said, then 1 guilty"
SQUIRRELS, rabbits with Young. cats that
| refuse to bother the birds and two great
mastiffs, held in leash by heavy log chains,
completed the life of the little farm home.
The birds were his dearest possessions.
Hundreds more of them built in the vicinity
of his home. Fearful of the law, yet with
a desire to aid the creatures he has minister
ed to SO long the old man still prepares food
for the songesters and watches them loving
always has.
Postal Saving
A daily saving of $1,000 in interest charge
On the basis of 5 II per cent is being made
through the earlier delivery Of registered
cording to a report by Postmaster General
Hays from the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York.
The bank reports that an average of S..
100000 daily is collected through the Clear
ing House on the day of receipt, which, I'M
der the old conditions, would have been re-
ceived too late for clearing.
On July I, the postoffice department ar
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