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Annual Girl-Date Spinsters’ Ball Is Affair of This Week-end Diary of a College Girl Foiled In 1912 Oregano Proees That Coeds of All Years Are Alike Editor’s Note: Today’s "guest diary” is taken from a real rood's diary published in the 1912 Oregana, which seems to show that the interests of college girls are still very much the same. Sunday night—Diaries seem useless tilings. One never does dare to say anything very personal in them. If f do, I always feel as though I were being watched, so I just stick to facts. And all the names I use I just make up,—out of the initials of real people; and then of course, people (if any one were to read this;, wouldn't understand. One always feels so foolish if one is asked about keeping a diary. I’d never dare say I cio,—but it will be nice to read over after I'm married. I wish something exciting would happen. Went to church. Nobody interesting there. Superb Blonde had a new hat,—rather ugly. The Sweet Cat, Little Hen and the Petite Wren were all out; funny that Presh Daisies and French Cowslip and A. Kiss weren’t there. Someone told me that the rest of the Gamma Phis go to the Presby terian church. I don’t think theif freshmen ever go though,—I never saw A. Heathen or Elite Cow at any church. Had dinner and told T. L’s with the girls till four o'clock. Heard some peaches. Gay Curls told me a dreamy one from Divine Winker, but she fibbed. Don’t believe any of the Sigma Nu’s ever say nice things about us,'—only the ones that are engaged, and I'm not sure about that either. Went for short stroll to see who might be on the race, and saw Happy Boy scrub bing his teeth on the Kappa Sig back porch. I bet he just got up. Wouldn’t his hair be pretty on a girl? Had supper! Boys came over and we sang. Sunday’s a stupid day. Made candy. Went up stairs at ten o’clock. Studied hard for hours. I'm going to bed early this week,—on my way now, its ten thirty. Hope tomorrow’s exciting! Monday night.—Nothing doing. Went to classes. Trained Cut throat posted me in French. Fn fair, I was there all hut ten times last month. Spring is here,—all the dames have new hats. They’re hideous. I’m going to have a beauty. Cut Knglisli and talked to Rather Malicious in the library. Told him the Emerald wasn’t fair, so wo fought fierce. Heard that How Horrid gave a quiz./. Missed it! Don’t care. Rained all after noon. Met Big Prim,—curls all out. Always knew her hair was straight. Mount Max brought me home under his umbrella but he let me carry three books. I know a lovely scandal. We talked it over a few minutes this evening. Came up at nine-thirty to go to bed. All my resolutions are broken ’cause it’s twelve-thirty. The Delta Sig lights are on, wonder if that Cute Wooer is still studying. Wedensday night.—Never can spell Wenesday right. Tri Belts are having a party. I wasn’t invited,— RUSTLE young Always some thing quietly dra matic about taf feta evening gowns . . . $19.75 i in gay TAFFETAS See our fine se lection of even ing McKover taf fets in pingowns fetas and prints in ail new sprintr colors . . . 75 -LCJIad 104 Willamette J TN(\ For Knockabout Wear Smart New Sport Oxfords Crepe Soles Saddle Styles Comfortable Good Looking After the gay round of parties, it's a irrand feel ing to slip into t It esc eo/.y brogans and yet know that you have fashion's approval. We’ve just un packed a new shipment of souffproof sport shoes that will warm your heart—and bring joy to your feet. “Smart-side-out" liuek with smooth leather trim and erepe soles; in wing tips, glove toes, or the over popular saddle style, 't oil'll see them on the oarnpus paths and in all of the handouts. They’re UlOHT to the last stiteh—and definittdy smart! The price $5.00 • Brown and White • Black and White • All White "Where college lolk huv footwear.” 828 Willamette Street //ollywood IIfitter Belly Furness’ choice in chapeaus is always extremely smart—if extreme. She is shown here wearing a high-crowned black felt hat trimmed with a silver fox head, llislng from the head is a long curled tendril of burnt orange. li uiiii)! I'm going to bo more serious from now on and only write real earnest tilings in my diary. I wonder if any girls in college are boy crazy? Our house mother said some were. Went to classes. Had a music lesson. Went up the race. Count Max was on the Kappa Nig porch. Gee! would n’t it ite great to go some place with someone really wonderful like Sad Lad! They say he has twenty-nine football pictures of himself, all different. He’s a swell kid, all right. There's a love ly college man poster at Schwart child's. I’m going to get it, mebbe. Wonder if the girls will think some man gave it to me ? Thursday night.—Absolutely noth ing doing. I wish something would happen. Winsome Wheedler went home today. The Kappa Alpha Thetas will sure miss her. She broke down from overdoing and exeltement. It’s Just awful the way we girls go out. Dance almost every weekend and big parties galore. Bought seven cute curls to day for $3.00. They don’t match well, but they arc a bargain all right. Friday night.—Cut nil afternoon Went up race. Saw Kver Singing and llert Pacificator in a canoe, Woniler why she wasn’t teaching? Tonight we had nineteen callers. Bet we heat the other houses! Al ways Noisy has lost her voice. Funny? Hope she forgets how to talk. She always did talk too much Oh, it's nice when the boys come. 1 JUST LOVE FRIDAY! Saturday Night.—Cleaned house. Hate it. Kappa Sigma dance. I was crazy to go. Wouldn't—just hate that old rag of mine, and I knew everyone would wear new dresses. Lent my curls to one of the girls. And someone else wore my slip pers. Resides,—there Has a moon and it would have just been wasted. Someone told me that all the girls spoon. 1 don't believe it. Oh! why didn’t 1 go to the dance anyway. I’d go now if 1 had to wear a kitchen apron. 1 just can't wait to hear who took whom and if any queer couples were there I don't see why the girls don't come. T wonder how my curls looked? Hope my slipper hurt her. After alt it was only a dance! I'm going to he above them. They are only for the young and very immature. Oh, why don't the girls come? I want to know if Oreat Bore was there. Co-Ediijiiettc By BARRY BAKER What is tlu> proper way to eat artichokes? They are always eaten with the fingers: a leaf at a time is pulled off. the edible end dipped in the sauce, and the end bitten off. When the center is reached, the thistle part is scraped away with a knife, the edges cut. and the "heart" eaten with a fork. What is the meaning of “a la carte"? This means you order "accord ing to the menu” and pay for each dish ordered. In an a la carte res taurant, the check includes a list of items with their prices. What is the correct way to re move pits, etc., from the mouth? Never spit skins, pits, bones, or anything on a fork or a plate. The only way to remove anything from the mouth is between first-finger and thumb. Dry grape seeds and cherry pits can be dropped from the lips into the cupped hand. When should one drink soup? It is always correct to drink boullion or any other soup that is served in a cup. That's why cups have handles. Two hands are used for drinking boullion, but only one for coffee, chocolate, or tea. Oregon Women Like Attendee Considerate Men Better Than "'Diamond in the Rough’ Tgpe By CLARE IGOE Do Oregon women love cavemen ? Or do they prefer the smooth well-mannered, courteous gentlemen who always knows the right places to go, the right things to do, and looks as if he had been born in his tuxedo ? After a recent survey of what traits campus males prefer in women, it seems only fair that the weaker sex should have a right to air their opinions on what they expect from their dates. Ladies, it seems, do not love brutes—contrary to popular opinion Week Social Slate Features Numker Of Winter Formals Although no campus dances are scheduled for this weekend, a num ber of house dances will be given. On Friday night Delta Delta Delta, Gamma Phi Beta, Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Phi Epsilon will give winter dances, and Chi Omega will entertain at a formal dinner dance. Phi Kappa Psi is having a form al dance at the Eugene hotel Sat urday night, and the all-co-op semi-formal is also to be held that night. A “first-nighter" idea will be used for the Gamma Phi Beta formal at the chapter house. Jimmy Morrison and his orchestra will be secluded behind curtains, which will be drawn apart when the “show begins.” The Tri-Delt formal is being given by pledges for upper-class men, the theme of the dance be ing kept a secret. Sigma Phi Ep silon will hold a semi-formal dance with palms and flood-lights for decorations. The theme for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon dance is also a secret from upper-classmen. Gus Meyers will play for the formal, to be held at the Eugene hotel. Members of Beta Theta Pi are building an enclosed extension on to their front porch so it will pro vide a sheltered place for dancing at their formal, for which Babe Binford's orchestra from Portland will play. Members of co-operative houses and their guests will dance in the AWS rooms in Gerlinger hall at their semi-formal dance to be held Saturday night. People We'oe Seen The Fraternity Clown: or Is That Boy A Cord l' Ey MARTHA STEWART “This house must'a been a lousy joint before I crashed in,” he used to tell the boys of dear old Psi Psi Psi after he'd pulled something that simply slayed them all. “Why I'm the only one that keeps the place alive. You must have been a sleepy lot before I came.” Certainly they neeer got much sleep after the house clown moved n. He kept them on their toes every minute doing things that kept the boys screaming all the time. Like the afternoon before the house formal when he collected everybody’s tux trousers and hid them underneath their mattresses. "Boy, this’ll wow ’em,” he’d chuckle to himself with fiendish glee as he mixed the salt and sugai on the table or dropped a water bag down on the boys starting off to class. "This oughta wake ’em up a bit." He kept them roaring all the time doing things like that. He was the person who left the message for one of the boys to call "Jimmy” at a certain number. The number turned out to be that of the dean of men whose name happened to be James. It was he also who used to stick his head in the phone booth late at night while someone was whispering sweet nothings in his loved one's ear and bawl out in the voice of a fish peddler, “Hey, you're not a Christ ian Scientist. Von can't kiss the gal goodnight by phone.” That used to put the boys in stitches. "Never a duil moment!" he would chortle happily as he set all the sleeping porch alarm clocks to go off at fifteen minute intervals throughout the night before exams. And then one day he had his big inspiration, the peak of his career. It was a perfect brain storm—the most colossal thought he’d ever had. His room-mate slept in the top deck of the bed they shared on the sleeping porch. That evening while all the boys were at the library he sneaked onto the porch and systematically removed the screws in the top deck of the bed, replacing them with fine wire hairpins that he'd bought at the drugstore that af ternoon in spite of salesgirl’s gig gles. He could hardly wait to see the surprised expression on his rooni nate's face when he jumped into aed and came crashing through into the bunk below. He felt awed j by the immensity of this brain ( child of his. The boys would cer j tainly get a big laugh out of this. “Just a little ray of sunshine, that's me," he admitted modestly to himself. He tried to think of something else to amuse the fellows while he waited for his room-mate to come home, but his inventive genius had been exhausted by the stupenduous brilliance of his latest inspiration, so he sat down in a chair to doze until his room-mate came home. | It was late when he finally i awakened and stumbled sleepily to ! bed, to fall sound asleep again. In the meantime his room-mate | had become involved in a poker game downstairs, and it was two hours* later when he finally pulled off his clothes and vaulted into j ! the top bunk. As he landed he experienced a strange singing sen sation, followed by a crash and a muffled gasp from underneath. When he finally reached the door j and turned on the light his fra- [ ternity brothers were already roll ing up an object long and flat. Upon close examination it proved to be the fraternity clown, flatten ed out until he resembled nothing more than a large and rather j wrinkled sheet of paper. They carried him out on a stretcher. The boys of dear old Psi Psi Psi after many months finally got | back to living a normal life. How- { ever, they still bear the marks of | the oh, too funny boy. Even now ; they tremble whenever they hear an unfamiliar sound. Many of 1 them still taste the salt before | j they put it on their food and turn 1 back the covers suspiciously at 1 night before they jump in bed. || on the subject. Nor do they prefer the unpolished “diamond in the rough”—if we may be permitted to coin a phrase. They expect courtesy and consideration, and a certain amount of wordliness. Cavemen Out Said diamond may have a ster ling character hidden beneath his shabby exterior, and words of wis dom may emerge after the first few snarls, but the gals think that a bit of polishing is in order before his company will be sought with any degree of eagerness. "Give me a smoothie every time,” declares Alpha Chi Omega ELLEN HILL. She thinks it is easier to have fun with a man who knows the best places to go and things to do. Also, she admits she likes an attentive escort. In her charming Boston drawl, BABS McCALL maintains she likes variety. However, she af firms, she expects a man to dress up when he comes over to see her, at least. “I don’t want him to come ovah draised up in an old sweatah,” she remarked. She doe3 not expect to be treated as if she were about to break, and is willing to take care of herself. Personality Preferred MARGILEE MORSE, vivid, dark-haired senior class president, would like men to be about half and-half. “He must have brown hair,” she insists. He needn’t be good-looking, as long as he has a nice personality. Margilee doesn’t care for the “smoothie” type, but likes someone who isn’t above do ing “goofy” things occasionally, rather than go to a dance. JERRY CHESSMAN, Kappa Al pha Theta, sees the advantages of both types. She believes, however, that the “smoothie” is apt to be more fun—or at least she suggests that the “diamond” do a bit of pol ishing up. As long as she is in college. Smoothie OK’d MARY WRIGHT, Gamma Phi, wants a man who is a “perfect gentleman”—someone who knows the “proper things to do, and does them smoothly.” She likes court eous, thoughtful treatment, and holds out for a man who “opens doors for you, and doesn’t trip you when you go through.” CHARLOTTE OLITT, Sigma Kappa songstress, emphatically prefers the masculine type — a man's man. She likes someone with a real personality. ALICE STEWART, little blond business ad major, dimpled coyly when asked her preference. “What do I care,” she smirked, “as long ashe’s pretty.” KAY STAPLES, Tri Delt, doesn’t like men too attentive— she'd rather they’d be “hard to get,” and prefers the “diamond” type. Above all, she says, he must not be conceited. ideal man Listed MARGARET GOLDSMITH, Al oha Chi Omega, had her ideal man .veil in mind, It seems he must be jood-looking, have personality and i good amount of intelligence, be veil-dressed, considerate, attentive —and a he-man. We think if Mar garet finds him she'll have plenty of competition. MARY JANET HIGGINS, Kap oa, at first affirmed that she vasn't interested in men at all. Upon second thought, however, she iecided she might like one, if he tad big feet. MARY ELLEN EBERHART, stately, poised Pi Phi, suggested ■hat a new committee be formed on the campus—the CEFPMOSFF, he Committee to Encourage Fra :ernities Pledging Men' Over Six Feet Four. Being broad-minded, lowever, Mary Ellen remarks that is long as he’s over six-foot-four, she isn't choosy. - .... .... E * • Recognition Buttons § • Crested Rings 1 ’ • Fraternity Pins • Dance Bids Complete line of compacts, | bracelets and all forms of | jewelry. WENDELL WYATT Campus Representative Zell Bros. Beta Theta Pi Ph. 1024 | Nominees in Coed Political Ren Hold Top Actioitij Spots Nominations for AWS, YWCA, and WAA official positions were made yesterday at the associated women student’s mass assembly, and Friday these candidates will be voted on at polls placed in front of the old library. Nominees selected are chosen on a basis of scholastic and acti vity record. Nominees chosen this year have been outstanding in both fields. Gayle Buchanan, Kappa Kappa Gamma, nominee for presidency of AWS, is a Eugene girl, a major in English. She was president in 1936 37, active in YW work, a member of Pot and Quill, and secretary of the junior class. This year she served as assistant chairman of frosh counsellors. Miss McNiece Active Opposing her is auburn-haired Genevieve McNiece, Sigma Kappa. She was this year’s Panhellenic secretary, Kwama, and later Kw ama advisor, and a member of Phi Theta Upsilon. She has also served on several committees and direct orates. Gretchen Smith, Alpha Delta Pi, is nominee for WAA presidency. She is a junior, a member of the PE club, vice-president of WAA, and an honor-roll student. Gertrude Branthover, who op poses her, is an independent, active in the physical education school and Girl Scout work. Three women contend for posi tion as YW president. Ellamae Woodworth, independent has been active on the YW cabinet. Harriett Thomsen, Susan Campbell, has al so been on the YW cabinet, as has Benefit Dance Ison Friday at Osburn H otel One of the outstanding social affairs for the coming weekend is the annual Spinsters’ ball to be held Friday night at the Osburn hotel. Miss Helen Dodds is chairman for the affair, and is assisted by Misses Lorraine Barker, Marian Morse, Virginia Endicott, and Elizabeth Soults. Carl Rooen’s or chestra will play. Spinsters’, organization of young Eugene women, sponsors the dance, proceeds going towards a scholar ship fund drive. Formals are in order for women, and dark suits for men. The dance is a girl-date affair. Tickets may be secured from Spinsters on the campus, and at the door. Admission is $100. Margaret Carmen, third contender. Vice-Presidency Race Running, for vice-presidency of AWS is Vivian Emery, Alpha Chi Omega, a junior who was head of frosh orientation, Kwama, and Phi Theta Upsilon, as well as vice president of the junior class in f 1936-37. Against her is Frances Johnston, Gamma Phi Beta, a member of the rally committee, and active in committee and direc torate work. As vice-president of YWCA, Virginia McCorkle, Alpha Omicron Pi runs alone, and Betty Mtishen is unopposed on the WAA vice president spot. Room for the gang, TAYLOR’S, ad Dusty Tone Shirts $1.95 Fruit of tlie Loom have maintained their usual high quality in these new Dusty Tone shirts! They are solid colored broadcloth shirts—sheer and serviceable. 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