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PAGE 4 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN HOW THE RINGS CAME By DANIEL B. ANN WHEN THE DODO DIED When a man is dead as the dodo he is dead as a The Raccoon and his grandma once lived together. They had nothing to eat, but acorns. The acorns doornail, which is very dead indeed. The chances of were well cooked, and hurried in the ground, kept resuscitation are equally poor in both cases. The doornail never lived and therefore its death can fresh. be regarded as eternal, having neither beginning nor Once the old lady sent her grandson to get some acorns for her; they had them hurried in five places. end. It is different with the dodo. The dodo not She told him to get three acorns, which they so only lived but was once the chief habitant of Mauri tius, an island east of Madagascar, now a part of the divided as to eat one nut and a half each. The Raccoon ran down to the cellar where they had British family of nations. Etymologists think the name “dodo” was derived them hurried. He ate one nut and a half, and saved the same for his grandma. He went a little way and from the Portugese word “duodo,’ ’ meaning foolish or lost half a nut. He had to go back and do it all silly. Be that as it may, the dodo was a goodnatured, slothful and rather stupid kind of clumsy pigeon that over again. This time he fell down from running and smashed could not fly. Its wings were rudimentary. When it in his hands. He went back again to try it over. a crew of Portugese sailors touched Mauritius for pro The third time he carried it in his mouth and he visions in 1510 these clumsy birds were waddling all tried to jump cross the creek, but he failed. He fell about the island. Naturally the sailors killed a few into the water, and swallowed the acorn. He never of them to try their flesh. They found it unpalatable. reached home for some time, and then his grandma In the following century several specimens of the do caught him sitting and eating. She got mad and do were taken to Europe, but there is no record of a took a burned stick of the sweat house, and whipped live bird having been seen since 1618. When hogs him from nose to the tip of his tail. Ever since the were introduced on the island the dodoes fared ill. They could not fly and were slow on their feet. Be Raccoons have rings on their tails. sides the female dodo laid only one egg at a setting WHAT WE LEARN FROM BOOKS and this in a nest of grass. So the queer bird be “There are many virtues in books,” said Emerson, came totally extinct. “but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and ANNOUNCEMENTS are the formulas which supersede all histories.” C ommencement E vents at C hemawa Though written primarily to entertain, books of fiction Sunday, May 27th are not without their educational features. Mystery, Religious Services—Catholic and Protestant .... 10:00 A. M. romance and adventure invariably bring with them Competitive Military Drill and Dress Parade .... 3;3o p. m . . . . 6:30 P. M. new facts which we may add to our stock of knowl Band Concert -......................................... Bacealaureate Sermon by Dr. James T. Matthews of Willamette edge. We learn much from good fiction. University............................................ - - 8:00 P. M. For example, take the mystery story, * ‘The Chinese Monday, May 28th Parrot,” by Earl Derr Biggers. Here’s a well writ Industrial Departments Open to Inspection by Visitors . . 10:00 A. M. ten book with the express purpose of arousing the Baseball.............................................................................................. 2:30 P. M. curiosity of the reader and keeping him in suspense Band Concert .......... 6;3o p. M. until the very last. And how well it succeeds! But Tuesday, May 29th along with the mystery and humor and wit there are pictures of a California desert, with its deformed Registration and Meeting of Alumni and Returned Students - 10:00 A. M. Joshua trees, its vast expanse of sand, its incredibly Campus Meeting—"Jolly Up” and Presentation of Prizes • 2:30 P. M . near stars under tremendous night. There are also Band Concert.................................................................................... 6:30 P. M. glimpses of San Francisco and Hollywood with streets Operetta—"Pocahontas”—for Visitors ...... 8:00 P. M. Wednesday, May 30th showing “living examples of what the well-dressed 10:00 A. M. man or woman will wear if not carefully watched.” Memorial Services ......... 2:30 P. M. Also there is a lesson in patience. A detective, to Baseball .... ..... 7;so p. be successful, must have plenty of it. And he must Moving Pictures be ready for quick action always. Time after time Thursday, May 81st he may follow clues and find them false but he must Inter-Class Track and Field Meet ...... 2:30 P. M. not be discouraged. His success depends largely on Band Concert........................................................................... 6:30 P. M. his tenacity and will to overcome all obstacles. Graduation Exercises—Address by Dr. Nolan Irby of O. S. C. - 8:00 P. M. So the author of fiction does his part in the dissem An admission charge of 36ots. for children and 6Oots. for adults will be made for the operetta, "Pocahontas.” ination of knowledge.
