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THE NORMAL STAR
The Normal Star
Enterd as second-clas matter, March
14, 1911, at the post-offis at San Mar-
cos, Tex., under the Act of Mar. 3, 1879
EXECUTIV STAF,
English 301 Clas
Contributors :—Pansy Walden, H. H.
Hutto, Lula Galloway, Arabella Phil-
lips, Daisy Scott, Annie Penny, Annie
Woolley, Arlin Johnson.
The Star solicits communications of
different kinds from all students or
faculty members who fell that they hav
something worth sharing with us. To
insure prompt publication, all comun-
lcations should be in by the Saturday
afternoon of the week previus to date
of publication. _They should be tiperit-
ten, double spaced, where this is pos-
sible; and may be addrest to the Editor
P. O. Box 156, or left in either of the
Star boxes—(1) in the west hall, Main
Bilding, ground floor, near entrance,
(2) in the south hall, Education Bild-
ing, ground floor, near entrance.
The Simplified Spelling Forms used
in this issu conform as far as practic-
able to those recommended by the Sim-
plified Spelling Board in its “Rules’4
circular, April, 1919.
Conference Aftermath
After all has been said and done we
feel forced to agree with Solomon that
there is nothing new under the sun;
but of course this does not exclude the
possibility of "endless new ways of ar-
rangement that ar ever of interest and
inspiration to man. So, in the Rural
Education Conference, we find no new
message but rather different and in-
dividual presentations of most of our
wel known current problems. We herd
discust from the usual angle but with
greater emfasis: the urgency of the
needs of professionalizing to increase
the efficiency of the teacher, thereby
making possible the increase of her
salary; of thinking in bigger terms of
aims to be reacbit; of standardization;
and of appreciating the position of the
rural scool as an integral and vital
part of the national sistem of education.
We do not wish to underrate the valu
of such a series of organized lectures
as being a help and stimulus to the
utilize books and magazines that, when
we find ourselves in those very rural
districts, we shall be prepared and
traind to attack the problem in the
light of the ways and means that the
best educational thought of the times
has presented to us in the books and
journals we have had access to and
in the counsel of the representatives
from the Bureau of Education.
—P. W.
ON
BRINGING ONE’S LUNCH
TO SCOOL
hearer, but nevertheless it was borne
in upon us that we wer more than fair-jy0ur arm and the second on your lips.
There is not one of yu—tho yu may
not at present do it—who has not at
some time taken his lunch to scool.
As yu finisht your brekfast, yu
watcht with sated eyes your mother’s
deft fingers as she sliced great thick
hunks of sweet-smelling home-baked
bred, and spred generus portions of
butter on both pieces of future sand-
wiches. Yu watcht with eyes that
shoed no interest, the quick motions
as she prest juicy slices of pink ham
between thickly butterd pieces of bred,
and caut yourself wondering—because
your oversize stomac had just gorg'd
with huge bowls of oatmeal drownd in
cream and burid beneath sugar, with
numerus slices of toast, and, if your
mother wer more indulgent than wise,
with at least one cup of coffee—I say
cu caut yourself wondering how yu
would ever be able to eat all that
lunch. Your memory told yu that yu
would, but your mind refused to be-
liev it.
To prevent further distress, yu likely
got up abruptly and went into the next
room, to slick down with a drencht
brush your turbulent, Bolshcviki-in-
clind shock of hair. Yu, consequently,
did not see added to your lunch the
pickles, cake, and fruit, which a fond
mother knew would plese yu at noon.
With a light hart, yu doubtless found
your favorit top or, maybe, “taw,” or,
if literary-inclind, your latest acquisi-
tion in the form of a much-thumbd
copy of "Diamond Dick.” Whichever
it might be, yu secreted it somewhere
about your wel-fed person (I’ll not tel
where, because I respect professional
secrets,) and march! back into the
dining room. There yu receivd your
books, a parting kis, and your lunch.
With the first and the last under
ly wel-acquainted with the field coverd.
Lest someone fear a contusion of
egotism has been forming in the edi-
torial mind, we hasten to assure him
such is not the case; our conviction
should be interpreted, for such it is,
entirely as a compliment to our insti-
tution. Our courses in rural sociology,
education, and history, together with
our reading in current books and mag-
azines, which has been guided by sug-
gestions from our instructors, all hav
acquainted us with the problems of to-
day. Tho somewhat inarticulate in the
past, we have felt we wer getting' a
large share of the world’s goods in
education, and now it is very gratifying
to find that our opinion of the up -to-
dateness of our scool is verified by
these lectures from the United States
Bureau of Education. As our last re-
mark we wish to say we ar proud to
yu may hav hastend to the "little red
scool house on the hil,” or yu may hav
loiterd along a concrete walk with
some yung las probably your senior by
a year or two, whom yu just happend
to catch up with as yu wer on the
point of hastening to take to dear
teacher the rose yu pluckt as yu ran
out of the yard.
When the noon bel rang, yu franti-
cally scratcht your lunch out of your
desk, spilling the jogafy, rithmetic, and
reader, which had all somehow got
piled up between yu and it. Wildly
yu dasht out to join your companions
near the wel, where yu ravenusly de-
voured what yu believd five hours
previus yu could never make yourself
tuch.
Thus yu may hav done in your yuth.
How changd is man’s estate! Now
yu shave from your manly chin and
Yu stalk across town in the face of a
sun alredy gloing with ardent promis
of a hot day. Yu carelessly leav your
lunch in your locker that does not lock,
and attend your classes with interest
and enthusiasm, or without them.
At noon yu retriev your lunch and
saunter to the place selected to eat it.
If yu ar a male student, yu probably
sit under the trees near the bubbling
fountain—especially if the sandwiches
ar a little dry or hav peanut butter in
them. If yu ar a Professor, (privileged
clas!) yu may stay in your offis; or,
lacking that, yu may stay at your desk.
If yu ar a yung lady—of course YU
did not shave while lunch was being
prepared that morning!—yu ar apt to
be found almost anywhere. Anywhere,
that is, except in the library, where
one busy teacher habitually goes to
scolarship and training ar acquired, a
teacher cannot expect to command a
very high and satisfactory salary. By
several illustrations the speaker shoed
that a teacher who has the best carac-
teristics is not overbearing towards the
children, has good common sense when
she meets the everyday problems in
scool life, and has patience with and
faith in the boys and girls with whom
she comes in tuch. In order that these
may be properly develop!, it is essen-
tial that one hav a good boarding
place, where one is satisfied; and good
helth, so the work can be carrid on as
it should. A teacher should not over-
work herself, either during the winter
teaching months or the summer. Teach-
ing is one of the most dangerus kinds
of work and requires a helthy teacher.
Without these necessary qualifications,
Dr. McBrein stated, a teacher could
eat his lunch. He thus simultaneusly
assimilates bodily and mental food, j not expect to be very successful
Seeing him there, I hav wonderd if he make much advance.
or to
ever got his reactions crost—if he ever
red his lunch while munching the cor-
ner of a newspaper, for instance!
Whoever yu a’r, yu contentedly swallo
your lunch and yield yourself up to
that sense of quiet drowsiness that
pervades the bildings and the entire
sun-swept campus. Wadding up the
paper that surrounded your lunch—yu
surround it now—yu lean against a
tree, maybe, and chew a blade af gras
as yu debate whether yu ar too lazy
to go to the fountain for another drink.
Suddenly music, melodius, mellifluus,
ecstatic, comes pouring into your half
conscius state. It begins in tinkling
rivulets, increases to sweet rivers
sound, and wels to
-L. G.
Y. W. C. A.
In spite of the gloomy wether Thurs-
day afternoon, a number of girls met
in the main auditorium for the regular
assembly of the Y. W. C. A. The read-
ings given by Mr. Thomas wer the
main features of the program. These
selections wer short poems mainly
from the works of Untermeyer and
Sara Teasdale, their import, as ex-
plaind in the comments of Mr. Thomas,
was to sho the attitude of modern au-
ofjthors toward the idea of relying on
veritable torrcm I ourselves and our ideals in making
of harmony. It' comes tumbling out
of the Chapel windoes and cascading
down the Chapel stairs. Some nimble-
fingerd “rang-time artist,” drest in
fluffy, cool attire, with her hair s.lickt
back at the dictates of fashion, has
seated herself at the piano, to pas the
noon hour musically.
Yu likely yield yourself to the sue'
of her playing and dream dreams. If
yu ar a boy, yu may allow yourself to
be drawn up to the very Chapel itself
(the better to enjoy her playing, of
course)—only to find some old boy
banging out "Missouri Blues” with
much fervor—and no skirt in sight!
At any rate, as yu sit in your fifth
period class a little later, yu ar con-
scius of a feeling of thankfulness that j
yu liv too far to walk home at dinner
time; and with a light hart yu join the
general smile at the sleepy heds of one
or two clasmates who ar not succeed-
ing in their attempts to digest at the
same time the subject under discussion
and a hevy dinner under their belts.
And as Jones or Smith falls gently
asleep, yu ar glad that yu bring your
lunch.
—Nemo.
this world a better place for human
beings to liv in.
After the closing song the girls wer
invited to meet in the lower hall, where
they wer entertaind for a half-hour
with readings from the verse of holey,
by Mr. Thomas.
lusted of the regular meeting Thurs-
day, a picnic at Riverside has been
pland. All girls and boys, whther they
belong to the Y. W. C. A. or not, ar
urgd to come. The girls ar askt to
bring sandwiches or fruit, the boys a'
to get ice cream. The hours wil be
from six to nine, and a good time is
in store for those who come.
—D. S.
see demonstrated the practicality of j adjacent provinces the hirsute adorn-
our Normal work, for it is now evident j ment bestoed by nature, while your
that our training has taut us not only ^ mother, wife, or landlady gathers and
to apprehend the problem but so to!prepares the material for your lunch.
The Ideal Teacher
What ar some of the essential quali-
fications of a successful teacher? Car-
acter and prudent conduct ar the fun-
damental companion qualifications giv-
en by Dr. McBrien, in his talk on “The
Ideal Teacher.” Without good car-
acter, high ideals, and the proper be-
havior, a teacher is without the right
kind of working foundation. Next,
scolarship and salary wer mentiond as
being closely connected as rvel as ne-
cessary in the work. Until the best
MARY’S WINK
Mary had a little wink,
A visual refraction :
When Mary lampt a likely gink,
That wink would strip for action.
It went with her to clas one day,
Which was unpsychologic;
It made the yung men ogle, flirt,
And act unpedagogic.
And so the stern prof, frownd it down
It seemd to disappear,
But lingerd furtivly around
Until the coast was clear.
And then it wanderd thru the halls,
But loiterd here and there
To wig-wag with some sportiv yuths
Who sought that wink to snare.
“What -makes the boys rush Mary so?”
The gossips ask with unction.
“Oh, Mary has the ‘lights’, yu kno,
The winsunT orbs that ‘function’.”
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