The Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 7, 1920 Page: 3 of 4
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THE NEW AND
MAJESTIC THEATRES.
“PICK O’ THE PL A YS”
Saturday, August 7
“ TEMPES T&S UNSHINE”
From the widely read novel by
MARY J. HOLMES
This Picture is playing to packed houses in the cities.
AND
ETHEL CLAYTON
IN
“The 13th Commandment”
Monday August 9
EARLE WILLIAMS
IN
“THE MASTER STROKE”
AND
WANDA HAWLEY—Realarts New Beauty
IN
“MISS HOBBS”
Pay at one Show and get a free Ticket to the other.
A. B. ROGERS
FURNITURE CO.
COMPLETE HOUSE
FURNISHINGS
Undertakers and Embalmers
San Marcos, Texas
W£ INVITE YOU
to call at the
SHOP
In Post-Office Block
ELECTRIC MASSAGE and
ELECTRIC HAIR CLIPPER
Give us a trial
FRANK BYLER, Prop
METHODIST CHURCH
%
A con'ial welcome awaits all teachers and students
wtthtn our gates for the summer - to our church, Sun-
day school and Epworth League.
Sunday school 9:45
Epworth League 7. p. m.
Preaching 10:50 A. M. and 8 P. M.
Come and bring your friends.
JOE F. WEBB, Pastor.
We Cater to Students’ Wants.
Make our store your headquarters.
We deliver free.
PHONE 32
JENNINGS PHARMACY
Quality Drugs and Soda.
■n
CONCRETE RESULTS AS A
MEASURE OF EFFICIENCY
*
The pursuit of the study of
chemistry as an elective at Southwest
Texas Normal offers peculiar induce-
ment to girls especially, for they can
generally provide an alibi in the way
of some tangible evidence to prove
the intensity of effort with which
they have attacked the assignment.
A visit to “Chemistry 215’’ will
demonstrate that fact.
The class files into its narrow but
interesting quarters in the rear of
the Science Building. The different
members come with various mental
attitudes as betrayed by their ex-
pressions: some have a depressed ana
troubled air; some come with joyful
expectancy; all have an appearance
of childish inquiry which if trans-
lated into speech would be: “Well,
Mr. Smith, what have you up your
sleeve in the way of a thriller for us
this morning?”
Soon the hum of voices rises on
the air; the most delectable bits of
gossip are being passed out—rumors
of dark designs on Miss Murphy’s
part along the line of a test; the
recent burglaries in the boarding
houses—all punctuated with clinkings
and grindings and masculine mutter-
ings as refractory apparatus is ab-
sent-mindedly punched or hitched
into shape.
“What chemical must we have,
Annie?”
“I don’t know, Willie, you look
and see what the book says, then
get them while I set up the ap-
paratus. I think this is the way it
goes. Let me look at the picture
again.”
Willie rushes thru with the select-
ing and measuring for she must get
back to hear the climax of that
interesting information Annie was
imparting. The assembling ant
mixing of materials go on tho
hampered somewhat by laughter
when the joke has been finished,
and by frequent and laborious refer-
ences to the manual.
“What result are we supposed to
get Annie?”
“I’m not sure. Look it up in the
book and-”
She is interrupted by the voice of
Mr. Smith whose patience is becom-
ing exhausted, for he finds all too
many of his pupils, especially fem-
inine, helplessly ignorant of the
problem in hand.
“You have had two days to read
up on this experiment and should be
able to proceed without delay. '
You’ve noticed I’m sure that Boob
McNutt is mechanically inclined
Since looking about I have decided
that some of you are ardent disciples
of that gentleman. Miss Jones, the
water will never fill up that tube as
long as you let it run in at that, top
opening and run out thru the
bottom.” A hysterical giggle is the
only answer.
“Annie” in * a frantic whisper,
“What are we supposed to get?”
“Oh, I don’t know. Look in the
trail off separately in search of en-
couragement from their neighbors’
labors. They find their fellow
workers eager to have them share
their discoveries, and they sniff in-
quiringly at the strong odors issuing
from the mouths of flasks and test
tubes. Mr. Henderson oracularly ad-
vises, “Save Everything. Throw
nothing away.” One girl, ‘‘Put a
little heat to it.” a facetious male
member, “Get some specific gravity
from that highest shelf and apply it.”
“Well, Willie, we’ll pour it in an
evaporating dish and start on the
next experiment,” Annie mourns.
“Guess I’ll have to come back at the
third period and see about it, but 1
haven t studied my history and I’ll
flunk in it; but we just have to have
some crystals you know.”
Meanwhile in spite of Mr. Smith's
repeated warnings about having a
flame near ether, there is issuing
from a loose connection a suspicious
odor and the flame plays periously
near the leakage. ' But the two are
engrossed in painfully tracing with
soiled fingers those magic lines in
the book that promise so much, but
like the words of Delphi’s oracle pro-
tect themselves with a double mean-
ing.
There is a quick blazing up, then
an explosion. The two flee in a
panic, pursued by flying glass, but
soon they venture back thru falling
particles of soot and acid that settle
on them as they near the scene of
disaster. They peer in awe, struck
silent at the wreck. Suddenly Annie
bends eagerly over and looks beyond
the debris at the evaporating dish
that had been safely thru the storm.
She stares, then after a moment
she straightens with a triumphant
gleam in her eye shining thru the
haze of soot collected on her lashes.
“It has crystallized!”
HYIilUK-BLAIllS
“How is it coming along?” Mr.
Smith inquires as he passes by.
“Doesn’t seem to be much action,”
shaking flask and examining con-
tents. “What did you put in?”
“Willie,” accusingly, “What did
you put in this? Did you get the
right things?”
“Oh, Annie! Why-er-yes, of course,
I put—” with a surreptitous glance
at the book, “nitric—and—benzine—
and—” another glance brings courage
“and sulfuric acid!” she ends
triumphantly.
“Well, that will be all right,” Mr.
Smith encourages. ,
“Annie, it is supposed to crystal-
lize after it is filtered. See, that’3
what the book^says.”
The prolonged inertia of the
mass in the flash is impressing to
their spirits however, and Annie and
Willie after a time disconsolately
Five thirty o’clock last Monday
morning found about twenty Harris-
Blairs with their lady friends wait-
ing at the Vegetable Station on
North Austin street, discussing the
event in which they were soon to
participate in the vicinity of River-
side. As soon as the crowd had all
gathered the start for Riverside be-
gan. In a few minutes we were
there. No wood was to be found so
we decided to go to cliff just above
the power house. Breakfast had to
be cooked so every one “got a move
on” to build the fires, cut switches,
broil the bacon, toast marshmallows,
etc. Two of our august members
who seem to be in a habit of
letting the other fellow wait on them,
with their lady friends proceed to
go boating while their breakfast was
being prepared. They were some
what disappointed when they re-
turned, leaving the boat up the river
and hiding the oars in the shrubbery,
found no special attention paid them.
Midst jokes and pranks the break-
fast was finally cooked. With all
the fruits, cakes, bacon, marsh-
mallows we could hold in our hands
(and pockets), we climbed to the
highest points to be found around our
vicinity and proceeded to eat. The
sun, streaking the east with beauti-
ful colors, beginning a new day, im-
pressed us with the fact that we too
had begun a new day and could
spread our happiness about us to
make others happy. Breakfast over
we policed the grounds, and turned
our steps in various directions, some
to the head of the river, some home,
and our already mentioned august
members proceeded to boat some
more only to find that some one had
stolen the boat and was rowing the
boat upstream without oars. Con-
sidering the eats, the crowd, the
fun, and the “solemnity” of the oc-
casion, it was a grand success.
HOFHEINZ SODA FOUNTAIN
Pure,, Ice Cream
Genuine, Coco Cola
Fruits and candies
East side square.
TOMATOES
Cents Other eatables
per lb. equally low priced.
VEGETABLE STATION
N. Austin St.
R O ND’ C
Restaurant ^
Nesbitt s Barber Shop
East Side Square
Next First National Bank
Students Welcome
We Save You Money
on Dry Goods and
Shoes.
GRAND LEADER
West Side of Square.
L. J. DAILEY
Phone 181-182
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