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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1931)
Page 3 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL There was a movie here last Saturday evening en titled “Noah’s Ark.” This is truly a wonderful picture. We are all grateful for a free presentation of an ed ucational picture exhibited here last Tuesday evening. (F rom the Q uiver of P lutarch ) w > It is a picture sponsored by the U. S. Department of Unless the foundations of a family be properly pre Mines and proved of interest and value to all. pared and laid, those who are sprung from it must Owing to other attractions the “music appreciation necessarily be unfortunate. hour” for the ninth grade boys was not observed last Tuesday evening. However, it is expected that the Man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immov regular schedule will be in force next Tuesday evening. able, but heavenly, whose rising, as it were from a This section of the country is about 14 inches shy on root upwards, is turned toward heaven. rainfall this season—since last September. This defi ciency represents an immense amount of moisture, but, The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever anyway, we can still boast of more rainfall than speaking. And the first evil that attends those who other sections, so we should not complain too bitterly. know not how to be silent is, that they hear nothing. Su pt. Lipps left last Thursday evening for Spokane, Wash., and after attending some business in that sec tion intended to proceed to Tulalip and Tacoma in Wherever the thirst for money, wherever burning passion, wherever impotent envy has its home with the Puget Sound section where he would attend to a number of official matters. He is now due to arrive wickedness, there, if you search, you will find super back home at any time. stition, languor in labor, fear of death, a succession In response to a call from our neighbors, Mr. Vos- of violent passions and the thirst after undeserved Burgh and his bandsmen are to provide music in con honor gaping in its own insolence. nection with a play to be presented at Woodman Hall this evening under the auspices of the Keizer School. Simonides was accustomed to say that the box he We are always pleased to note a demand for the ser kept for his cash was always full, but that which he vices of this organization. They will pky well—a credit to the school and themselves. kept for his gratitude was always empty. So knaves Mrs. Downie and Mr. and Mrs. Mason were in when they contemplate their own wickedness find it Portland last Friday evening in attendance at the an void of good, but full of tears, sorrows, odious mem nual dinner and reunion of the Sigma Phi Delta which ories, suspicion of the future, and distrust of the pres was held at the home of Mrs. Julia (Mills) Miller. In former years the most outstanding girls of our school ent. were members of this society and it is of more than Nature without learning is like a blind man; learn ordinary interest to learn that the young women have not forsaken the tenets of this organization. Among ing without nature is like the maimed; practice with those present were: Julian (Gromoff) McCarty, Rose out both these is incomplete. As in agriculture a good (Goff) Nichols, Marguerite (Chamberlin) Tweed, Julia soil is first sought for, then a skilled husbandman, (Fratis) Morgan, Carrie (Anderson) McKeen, Edna and then good seed; in the same way nature corres Crofoot, Luella Williams, Grace Peterson, Evelyn ponds to the soil; the teacher to the husbandman; pre lyall, Rose (O’Brien) Downie. Geniva (Arquette) Becker and Mr. and Mrs. Mason were specially invited cepts and instruction to the seed. guests. How hard for a man to resist his animal instincts; but when a man either to gratify such instincts or for the sake of political reputation and power has com mitted some base and atrocious crime in the reaction from which his fury leaves him while the foul and terrible perturbations of his crime remains and he gains from it nothing useful or gratifying for his life, is it not probable that he is forced to think for what an empty glory or barren and sordid pleasure he has overthrown the most noble and sublime principles of life, covering, in doing so, his own life with trouble and with shame? TRY SAYING IT FAST This is one of the cleverest, jingling tongue-twisters that was ever devised. If you are able to read through it rapidly without getting the words tangled up you are to be congratulated on having mastered in an ex ceptional manner the art of articulation and enuncia tion. Here it is: If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot To talk ere the tot could totter, Ought the Hottentot tot To be taught to say “aught” Or “naught” or what ought to be taught her? If to hoot and toot a Hottentot tot Be taught by a Hottentot tooter, Should the tooter get hot if the Hottentot tot Hoot and toot at the Hottentot tooter?
