The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1922 Page: 2 of 4
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T H E THRES H E B :: H 0 U ST O N.TEX A S
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R. 8. Biekford. '23 Managing Editor
Editortai Department
Fanny Btaek. '23 Associate Editor
W. M. Dariinn. '23 Newt Editor
Margaret BtaekweU, '22 Aast- New< Editor
Hen Mitt'ht-H. '24 Asst. News Editor
Muford Coodwin. '23 Sports Editor
Tannie Lee Oiiphant, '23 Co-Ed Editor
Haae) Cannon. '2S Hoots Editor
R. E. Warn, '23 Exchange Editor
Ktneiit- Hurit'y, '21 ...Ex-Stnde Editor
Ed. MeCuMough, '24.. Feature Editor
Business Department
t)on Walker. '23 CircuiationMgr.
R 1! Hannan. '2ft Asst.. Cirepiation Mgr.
M. N. Aitken. '23 Advertising
Harry t.'o)M<]and, '23 Advertising
Reporters
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SHOULD A WOMAN SMOKE?
Slmutd a woman smoke if she
wishes? That question has been
agitated a great deal in the leading
universities of the country recently,
especially those in the South. It is
a weti known fact that many girls
do make smoking a habit, and still
others smoke fairly often. The ques-
tion has been discussed in some of the
most prominent of the student publi-
cations of the universities and is
evidently an important issue in many
schools.
Deans of women and faculty mem-
bers generally agree that it is not
best that a woman should smoke at
ail. However, one broad-minded pro-
fessor believes that it is all right for
a married woman to snioke as she
titeases, but he also adds that a girl
in school should not smoke at all. In
some universities and colleges there
is a definite rule against the women
students smoking, but such a ruling
is seldom found.
Of course there has been littie
difficulty along this line at Rice, but
the problem, nevertheless, exists and
there are those who have their own
thoughts about it and sometimes ex-
press them. Anyone asked about his
or her opinion of the matter will say
that a girl has a right to smoke if
she wishes, but they do not all agree
that a girl who smokes is regarded
as highly as one who does not snioke.
Various opinions have been express-
ed at. Texas University, and it is the
general belief that titere are at least
otn- hundred and fifty girls at the
t niversity who make aconstant prac-
tice of smoking ami some say that
there are at least five hundred. The
fact of the matter is that a large per
cat of the girls do indulge in the
smoking habit and most of them are
n"t so willing to admit it.
It. is an established fact that smok-
ing is injurious to the health, but that
is hardly an argument why a woman
-houid not smoke, for the habit, is as
;njurious to the health of a man ,ps
it is to that of a woman. Granted
that a woman has a right to smoke
if she wishes, should she snioke?
There is nothing to slop her, but isn't
it true in most cases that she is not
held in the highest regard if she docs
smoke a great deal? Certainly, it
is all right for a woman to wear pants
if she desires to do so. hut is the satis-
faction of that desire best for her
and for her standing and reputation?
A woman may do many things that
a man does, but she is not keeping
her place if she does so. and man
does not regard her in the same
manner as he did before she did those
things. It is not customary for a
woman to smoke, and the men she
wishes to attract do not like to see
her snioke. However, it is difficult
to convince a woman of a thing like
that—they cannot be convinced that
bobbed hair is not so becoming to
them, and there are a thousand other
like examples.
The question undoubtedly admits a
variety of opinions and no one person
may decide the matter for all women.
They will continue to do as they wish.
But is is interesting to note that the
smoking habit among women is fast
growing in the South, where hereto-
fore there has always been most prej-
udice against it.
INTERSCHOLASTIC MEET.
It has been reported that Rice will
not have an Interscholastic High
School Track Meet this spring. The
Thresher has had no official notifica-
tion of such a thing—and, on the side,
it is hoped that it will never have
such a notice. Surely the athletic of-
ficials who htfve this matter in hand
are not intending to forget that Rice
ever had one of these meets and thus
forget to have one this year.
The meet last year was a complete
success in every detail. Without its
help, the large Freshman Class en-
rolled last fall would have been much
smaller. The meet helped the stu-
dent) already at Bice for it created
within them an interest for getting
more atudenta, and they were willing
to work hard for them daring the
summer. It gave Rice more pubMeity
than it has received in any one way
in a long time.
Some were not satisfied with the
meet because the whole State was not
represented by atudenta. ProbaMy it
was not, but it must be remembered
that the second meet wili certainly
draw a much better representation
than the first. And it cannot be
denied that there were students at
the meet who represented districts
from which the greater per cent of
present Rice students haii from. And
the attendance should grow rapidly
with each year.
Some have also thought that the
meet was too expensive an affair and
cost the school entirely too much.
Probably it was expensive, but it
could not have been expensive enough
to break any fund, for the dormitory
students shared their rooms with the
visitors and they were fed in the
mess hall at the expense of all. There
was some expense to the medals,
prizes, etc., but such a cost was small
in comparison with the value of the
whole thing.
It was thought by all that last
year's meet was the first annual meet,
and that it was to be a continuous
affair. There is certainly no suffi-
cient reason why it should not be
made so. But if we are to have such
a meet this year, it is high time that
preparations be made for it. The
athletic authorities who have the mat-
ter in hand can expect to get all the
help they need from the students for
it is certain that they are willing to
aid.
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CLASS ISSUES.
The class issues of the Thresher
will begin on the first week of the
second term, the Senior Issue being
the first, the Junior the second, and
so on. Kach class will do well to
begin to think about the matter and
to make a few plans for their issue.
Elections for the class staff will be
held by each class in the next week
or two.
Time is set off for those class
issues, not to give the regular staff
a vacation—although many of us use
it for that purpose—but it is to
develop more interest in the Thresher
and to locate new material for the
regular staff. The idea also serves
to create a little class rivalry—a
thing that is generally helpful except
in the extreme cases of the under-
classes.
Every member of the regular staff
will be glad to help each class staff
in any way with suggestions and ad-
vice. Here is one little scrap of ad-
vice that might be of use: Remember
the purpose of the class issues and
also remember that quality and not
quantity is the thing sought after by
a college paper. Some classes have
put out issues before that apparently
disregard both suggestions.
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THE I'ROM.
It seems a bit useless to work on
decorations for a dance for five days
when the dance only lasts for five
hours. But with such decorations as
were seen at the Junior From, one
feels that it is worth the trouble. It
took genuine ability and skill for the
arrangement of the details that went
toward making the Prom a success,
and no little praise is due those who
had the affair in hand. The work of
Stcll, who planned the ideas for the
artistic decorations is seldom equalled
in college affairs. The decoration
committee of the class is responsible
for a great deal of its success as are
also most of the members of the class,
from whom splendid co-operation was
secured in the work.
C. I. A. students realized a long de-
ferred ambition last month in the
opening of the Y. W. C. A. hut, the
"House in the Woods."
Athietie Director: "And what are
you going out for?"
Student: "For good—in aboat a
month."
Giriie: "Can you give me a couple
of rooms?"
Hotei Clerk: "Yes, Suite I."
—Goblin.
Teacher: "What do we most ad-
mire about the busy littie bee?"
Smart Boy: "Once fuii, he makes
straight for home."
—Goblin.
"Do you drink?"
"No."
"Well, hold this quart for me while
I tie my shoestring."
—Lyre.
"Everyone's simply mad about
me," observed the keeper of the in-
sane asylum.
Cute (inhaling the intoxicating per-
fume of her presence): "Djer Kiss?"
Cuter: "No, not tonight."
A leading soap concern advertises:
"Keep that school girl complexion."
We're with you company, but why
wash it off?
—Wasp.
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Ever: "You're the very breath of
my life."
Sharp: "Let's see how long you can
hold your breath."
"Pardon me, are you one of the
English instructors?"
"Gosh, no! I got this tie for Christ-
mas."
—Voo Doo.
He: "Dear, if I can't return for
dinner, I shall send you a note."
She: "Don't bother yourself, Hon,
I've already found the note in your
left hand pocket."
—Widow.
Chester: "Say, old lady, how do
you like the date I dug up for you
for the Prom?"
Field: "Wouldn't bother me if ^ou
buried her again."
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"I'll remember that to my death-
bed," said the dying man.
"Ha," chuckled the cruel little vamp
before her mirror. "This is the powder
that blows many a poor fellow to
hell."
—Life.
Incandescence.
"Oh papa, last night in the parlor
he called me the iight of his life, the
fiame of his soul."
"Huh, funny that you have to have
so much gas with all that illumina-
tion."
—Life.
"What happened to that oil stock
you bought?"
"Well—"
"Too bad."
He: "Have you ever kissed a man
before?"
She (falteringly): "Y-yes."
He: "Tell me his name so I can
thrash him."
She: "But—but—he might be too
many for you."
—Gargoyle.
First Boarder to second ditto: "Say,
old man, I wouldn't risk 'eating that
rice pudding if I were you. There
was a wedding next door yesterday."
—Saturday Journal.
0333
REMEMBER—
Money is too hard
to earn not to save
a part of it.
Do YoM Ktiotu that over 24,000
Houstoniana bank the LMon Way.
The Union National Bank
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Cor. Main St. and Congress Ave.
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Studies are just like jello—let 'em
cooi and they get hard.
The derivative of a social function
—a minimum point at the bank.
'Tis better to have loved and lost
than to have loved and married.
"My socks will run if I don't," said
the student as the rain drops began to
fall.
"The final fugit of tempus," said
the young man as he placed his watch
in pawn.
"Scandal," says our. red-headed girl,
"is something other people perpetuate
and that we perpetrate."
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An optimist is a fellow who thinks
you mean a person is cross-eyed if
you say he looks crooked.
Our red-headed girl says her math
prof is getting very cold-rhe gave
her zero on her last exam.
Our slime asks if there will be
many B. A.'s this year. Yes, quite
a few, if B. A. means "Busted Again."
R
I might be convinced that some of
my ancestors hung by their necks but
I'll bet none of them ever hung by
their tales.
R
Ain't it a cheerful feeling when you
wake up in class and ask the prof to
explain something he has just gone
over in detail?
R
We move that when the Freshmen
Engineers take Physical Training on
Tuesday afternoon, they be furnished
with lunches and lanterns.
Our slime, who has just fallen out
with his girl calls love "A transitory
derangement of all five senses." Then
our red-headed girl is the cause of
chronic insanity.
The University of Texas Library
has been patented with a very fine
reproduction ef Dante's "The Divine
Comedy," valued at $500. The book
was a gift ^ the Italians of the
United State* of America.
The University of Arkansas has
adopted the plan of senditig out blot-
ters to high school seniors each month
as advertisement. The blotters pre-
sent a different phaaa of
life each time.
B——
Stanford has 168 students who are
receiving training under the United
States Veteran's Welfare Bureau.
These men have a
ing of aboat twenty
than the rest of the University,
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The University
A New Spring Hat
with a College Crease
A smart Spring Hat created especially
for college young men—built on a new
block, quite full at the top; adapted for
the new crushed crease. Shown in sand-
tan and several shades of gray.
$5 $6 " $7
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read like this?
If your burning ambition is to excel as an ail-
around .'ociety man, you couldn't have planned
your evenings better. Such persistence will win
out over the indolence of the ragk and file, far as
the poet says,
"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night."
But if you intend to make your mark in engi-
neering or business, don't expect that supremacy
on the waxed floor will help when you start hunt-
ing a job.
Not that you need swing to the other extreme
as a "grind" or a hermit. Let's concede it is all
right to minor in sociabilities—but certainly it is
only common sense to major in the math and
sciences and English that will mean bread and
butter to you later on.
Remember this—the harder you work right
now in getting a grip on fundamentals, the easier
things will come to you when you must solve
still bigger problems. And if you take it easy
now—well, look out for the law of compensation.
It's up to you. While you've got the chance,
seize it, dig in, plug hard. It will pay—in
cold cash.
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