Woman’s Gymnasium Used for
First Time for Such a
Function—Homeless
Children Aided.
ALPHA PHI AFFAIR TONIGHT
Gamma Phi Beta Entertains
with Hayrack Picnic to
Coburg Bridge.
Lnst night in the women’s outdoor
gymnasium Delta Gamma was hostess at
an informal dance for tbe benefit of
the homeless children of Belgium. The
Gymnasium, which was for the first time
used for a dance, lent itself nicely to
the Japanese scheme of decoration.
Japanese nurasoD and lanterns inter
spersed with wild lupine which resem
bled real Japanese wisteria, were strung
€|oss overhead, and the wire netting at
I side of the hall was twined with
y and cedar.
About f'."» couples danced all evening
and during the evening others came in
for a few dances after the Guild hall
play. Patronesses for the evening were
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Dem Louis' Ehrmann, Mrs. Belinda
Bailey, Mrs. L. E Bean. Miss Mable
t ummings, Mrs F S Dunn and Miss
Amy Dunn n he patronesses were seated
under a huge Japanese umbrella in one
corner of the gymnasium with rugs and
easy chairs, making the corner com
fortable
The dance was given by the local
chapter as a means of aiding in raising
its quota of the $10,000 which the na
tional organization has set to devote to
the relief of Belgian children.
alphi phi hostess at dance
Informal Party at Chapter House Is
Saturday Night Event.
Alpha Phi :s entertaining with a very
informal dance at their chapter house
this evening. The living rooms down
stairs are most attractively decorated
with baskets of spring wild flowers.
Patronesses for the evening are Dean
Ehrmann, Mrs. William Gray, Mrs. R.
Black and llrs. IV. McCorkle, of Port
land.
GAMMA PHI BETA GIVES PICNIC
I Coburg Bridge S-ene of Informal Party
on Friday Evening
Gamma Phi Beta entertained with an
informal picnic Prida.v evening at Co
burg bridge. The party left the house
late in the afternoon in hayracks and
reached the bridge iu time to serve a
delicious supper a. 6 o’clock. Later in
the evening ihey drove to TVillakenzie
grange and oancec till 10 o’clock. Th?
guests for the picnic were Mrs. Edward
Kiddle, La Grande; Helene Kuykendall,
Bess Snntn, Pendleton; Lawrence
Woodruff. Carl Kelson, Sam Lehmann.
Herman Lind, Dow Wilson, Howard
Kelly, A. C. McClain, Gus Hixon, Mart
Island; Earl Wilson, Glen Walters, Cur
tiss Peterson, George Boggs, Dom'd
Fee naughty, i nd Donald Portwood.
MRS. CASE ENTERTAINS CLASS
Breakfast on Manse Lawn Enjoyed This
Morning by 50 Girls
Mrs Wiiliam Moll Case entertained
50 members of the University girls’
Sunday school class of the Presbyterian
church at breakfast given at 8:30 this
morning on the manse lawn. Ten tables
were set. an 1 the decorations were done
in yellow.
The entertainment after breakfast
was in the form of darky lore, darky
stories being wrested from each girl
with one in her possession. Mildred
Forest added African atmosphere by
doing an African dance, accompanied by
several girls on ukuleles. Ruth Young
gave two readings in keeping with the
general theme.
FRIENDLY HALL GIVES DANCE
Men’s Organization Is Host at Delightful
Informal Party.
Friendly hall is entertaining tonight
with a very pretty informal house dance.
The guests for the evening are Cornelia
ITeese, Beulah Keagy, Lotta llollopeter,
Lillie Miller, Ella Rawlings, Gladys Van
Nuys, Helen Whittaker, Brownie Lee
Haynes, Margaret Jones, Elizabeth
Peterson, Alice Thurston, Marjorie
Campbell, Mary Packwood, Carlotta
Reed, Marjorie Kay, Ed Padden, Silas
Starr, Clyde Maison, Thurston Laraway,
Harold Grey, Henry Foster, Clayton
Baldwin, fcnd Paul Cook.
Patronesses for the dance are Dean
Ehrmann, Airs. Edna Datson, and Mrs
R. Prescott
MISS EWER ENTERTAINS
ADVANCED WRITING CLASS
Sword Ferns and American Flags form
Decorations—Dinner Followed
by Discussion of Stories.
Advanced writing took on an added
lustre in the eyes of the class when a
dinner party was substituted for the
usual Thursday meeting. Instead .of
gathering in Mr. W. F. G Thacher's of
fice at 2 o'clock, the class was postponed
till 5. and then held in College Crest, at
the home of Miss Ethel Ewer, a sopho
more in the University. The members
of the class hiked or rode out to the
place of meeting, and explored the
neighborhood in their efforts to discover
the right house. Once there, however,
the fear of a night in the woods dis
appeared, and everything else was lost
in the contemplation of the miles of
plains, with the river and the coast
mountains in the distance, and forested
hills nearby.
The house was decorated with sword
ferns and American flags, in remem
brance of the son who is in France. The
final furling back of a huge flag showed
the dinner stf out in cafeteria style, and
the real business of the evening began.
Guests of Miss Ewer were W. F. G.
Thaeher, Mrs. Emma Wootton Hall,
Mrs. Moun.ji. y and Victoria Case.
After dinner the class met and dis
cussed a storv by Mrs. Hall. Then other
stories and sengs kept the party together
until after 3 c’clock. Before the guests
departed, Miss Ewer displayed a Con
federate flag, captured by her grand
LUther in the Civil war.
ML MV lil FRiCE
IK JOT TOM
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Eyler Brown, with Engineers,
Writes that Soldiers An
ticipate Letters in
Bunches.
Declares that French Taught
in Schools Here Is Not
Spoken “Over There.”
Just how glad the boys in France are
to get. mail is shown in a letter from
Eyler Brown, a graduate from the archi
tecture department of the 101G class at
the University, now with the American
engineers in France, who writes to his
father. C. A. Brown at 1300 Emerald
street. ,
The letter reads:
' “Dear Folks:—We had mail today
again—three letters from you. Mail day
is always a very happy one here, for it
only comes every two or three weeks
and then in bunches. Really. I don’t
know but what the pleasure is greater by ]
having to wait and then get told.”
He says that although he had intend
ed to write a long newsy letter about
life at the front under present circum
stances he thought it best not to say
much about it.
Weather Like That in Oregon.
Then follows a description of himself
i nworking clothes. “-high hoots, gen
erally turned down to the knees, trousers
torn by climbing through much barbed
wire, army sweater, sometimes a car
tridge belt, always two gas masks, one
looks like a cigar box and is worn tied
upon my chest. The gas mask I have had
on many times, but only twice for whnt it
was intended for and then it was scarcely
necessary.”
The description of the weather is “Ore
gon rain with a frightful bunch of mud.”
Ho tells of one fellow soldier who got
so much mud on his feet that he had to
excuse one foot as the other went by.
Reads French Newspapers.
The great difficulty is understanding
French, the writer says, that every kind
of French is spoken except Parisian
French which is the kind taught in the
schools here. “I get a French newspa
per every time I get a chance,” Brown
continues. “It has better news in it than
English and American papers and be
sides there is a chance to learn; I had
one this evening that I could rend with
almost no difficulty.”
According to the letter, Brown has
been moving from village to village and
expects to go to a new place in a few
days.
“These French villages are certainly
very interesting,” he writes, “and the
way Frit!! has, in the past, knocked some
of them apart gives one finite an insight
into their construction. Everthing is
stone, walls about 20 inches thick, plas
tered over on the outside to make them
smooth, except the churches which are
finished masonry. Roofs are all red tile,
House and barn, or perhaps mill, are all
built together and generally a manure
pile in the front yard, if there is a front
yard, and if not, then in the street or the
back yard.
A bit of local color is added when Mr.
Brown writes: “There is a gang of
French next door now who have been
playing and singing for three solid hours,
and it is eleven o’clock p. m.”
Eylor Brown enlisted the first of laRt
September with the 116th engineers.
After six weeks of training in South Car
olina he was sent to Camp Mills and in a
few weeks to France. Since he has been
over there. Brown has attended a divis
ional school, the Found and Flash rang
ing detachment schorl, and finished his
course in it the first of March.
His parents say that they have never
had any intimation from Brown as to
the kind of work he is doing now, hut
in his last letter he referred his father
to the Oregonian for February 24th in
which there is an article by Major Clem
mens concerning the Found and Flash
ranging work and they think that this is
an indirect way of telling then just
what his line of work is.
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Leith Abbott, was hard to swallow as to
characterization, but his appeal for ac
ceptance was eloquent. His pose at the
end of the first act as a spontaneous
bit was interesting.
The rest of the cast were all neatly
exploited by Mr. Foster, Mr. Stearns,
Miss Manning, Miss Smith and Miss Ap
pel.
The setting was in good taste. One
wondered what interior decorator the
Hummingtop’3 had engaged, for obvious
ly the room did not echo the taste of the
family. The firelight was especially ef
fective.
“Barry Get T'p!” by Arthur Watson,
the one net comedy which »«• inserted
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to fill in the evening was an nmusing
trifle. A raft of people figured in this
production in proportion to the length
and importance of the plot.
Marian Tuttle Williams played the part
j of Mrs. Delaphane in her usual charming
manner. It was pleasant to welcome her
back to Guild Hall stage.
Delilah McDaniel lent a distinct air to
her small role. Especial mention should
be given to the remainder of the cast
who all performed commendably. This
little play went with considerable zest. It
was generally conceded that the white
fluffy bit of dog wagged his way through
the play in a creditable manner, also.
RURAL SCHOOL TO BE TOPIC
M. S. Pittman Will Talk to Eight Weeks'
Club About His Work.
Rural school work will be the next
problem taken up by University girls
who are planning to do eight weeks'
olub work this snminer during their va
cation months. M. S. Pittmau, who is
now on the Oregon campus but who for
merly was an instructor in rural school
work at Monmouth, will meet with the
girls ou Tuesday afternoon to toll them !
about the work. The meeting Tuesday i
will be the last of the series of three j
planned for preparation. The first was
taken by Mrs. P. L. Campbell. who
spoke on patriotic work; and the second
by Miss Catherine Winslow, who spoke
on recreational work.
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TENNIS RESULTS
Results of the Oregon-O. A. C.
tennis matches held at Corvallis
this morning: Powers (O. A. C.)
defeated Watson. Score: (5-2, 10-8,
3-6, 6-4. Haseltine defeated Hen
derson (O. A. C.). Score 7-5, 7-5,
6-3. The other singles which were
played this afternoon were between
Brown and Hyde and Ilershner and
♦ Reynolds. Watson and Haseltine
♦ and Brown and Ilershner formed
♦ the two doubles teams which met
♦ the O. A. C. doubles team this
♦ afternoon.
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