ROUNDS' LADIES
ORCHESTRA ENTERTAINS
Last Saturday night Rounds and his
orchestra, composed of six ladies, ap
peared again before a well filled
chapel. The number was principally
musical, but contained such a variety
that every person in the audience was
kept entertained thruout the two
hours. Because of a breakdown on
the interurban, the company was
somewhat delayed in opening the pro
gram. During this time the audience
amused itself by making conjectures
concerning the company. A cadet
protest a curiosity to know why the
leader was called Rounds. One of his
listeners, remembering the similarity
of Mr. Rounds to the conventional fat
and jolly Santa Claus, replied that it
was because he was round. Another
ventured the reply that it was because
he was “ ’round here,” and before the
entertainment had ended all were of
the same opinion.
The members of the orchestra were
finished and talented musicians, grad
uates of well known musical schools
and pupils of celebrated musicians,
and each was a star in her line. Va
riety was given to the program by
readings, solos and nonsense limer
icks. The two parts of the musical
program most enjoyed by the audi
ence were a representation of differ-
ent-toned clocks in a clock store and
a spirited imitation of a lively party
of young folks enjoying a sleigh ride.
Mr. Rounds and his company easily
sustained their past reputation at this
college as entertainers of the first
class, and every member of the audi
ence in leaving counted himself for
tunate in that he had not missed this
number.
“THE MORE WE THING OF COWS.”
A cow of commerce is a suffragette
of the bovine variety.
She has four protuberances that
give forth adulterable material in
varying quantities.
There is great rivalry between own
ers and breeders of various makes of
cows.
Some dairymen keep cows.
The Jersey men say a Holstein is a
cow that gives a tubful of milk
through which you can see the bottom
of the tub.
The Holstein breeder says the Jer
sey doesn’t give enough to cover the
bottom of the tub.
The Holstein is a mulatto cow—
part black, part white.
The Polled Angus is a brunette cow
without horns.
The Jersey is a fawnish-looking
critter with stream-line body.
The male Jersey cow has a tempera
ment like a cross between tobasco
and muriatic acid.
In our youth we used to try to
drive, under yoke, a Jersey bull.
He was black, with a tawny line
down his spine, and a mealy nose.
That bull had a disposition like
Champ Clark’s since the Baltimore
episode.
We worked him along with a brindle
steer of phlegmatic, standpat dispo
sition.
And the way those two got along
reminded one of the political harmony
that prevails just after a party has
got into power after a long fast.
If it were not for cows we would
practically have no calves at all.
The calves need the cows for moth
ers.
It was once our job to teach the
young and inexperienced cow who
had never been a mother how to stand
and be milked.
Many a time we have been buffeted
in the expression by the cloven hoof
of such young and giddy cowlets.
And when a cow of any age gets
ready to kick one in the smile, she
does not stop to disinfect or even
wipe off her hoof.
Cows, like other females, establish
a leadership among themselves by
various kinds and degrees of fighting.
And when the supremacy is once
established, the others do not horn in
until they are ready to fight for the
leadership once more.
The more we see of some folks the
more we think of cows.—Strickland
Gillihan in Chicago Post.
LETTER FROM RALPH DENSMORE.
We have received from Prof. Spence
a copy of a letter from Ralph Dens-
more, written from Monrovia, Calif.,
for which place, our readers will re
member, he and his brother left during
the last session.
He writes that since arriving there
he and his brother have been busy
converting a badly washed orange
grove into one which has now come
to have a civilized look, a task which
has not been a small one, by any
means. One week in four they spend
n irrigating, and because of the con
dition of the grove the work is very
difficult. The level they used for this
work was one “such as the ‘bughunt-
ers’ use, and a home-made rod and tar
get.” The letter continues with fur
ther details of the work.
He and his brother had little diffi
culty in getting acquainted, he states,
because of their musical inclinations.
They are now members of two orches
tras.
He says he is enjoying life and is
well satisfied with conditions as he
has found them, but that he did feel
a little wistful in September when
time for the opening of school rolled
around. He sends his regards to the
students and instructors in the C. E.
department and to the remainder of
the corps, saying that he endeavors to
keep in touch with them thru the Bat
talion and thru correspondence, and
that he hopes to meet the members of
the corps in San Francisco next sum
mer.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
Whereas, God in His infinite wis
dom has seen fit to take from this
world little Miss Christine Langford,
the sister of our friend and faithful
club member, I. Langford, we, the
members of the Williamson-Burnet
County Club, offer the following reso
lutions:
Be it resolved, That we take this
method of expressing to the family of
our friend our heartfelt sympathy in
this hour of grief, for we realize that
the loss of a dear, bright little girl is
a great loss indeed, and though we
cannot always understand the actions
of our great Father above, we humbly
bow before His infinite wisdom and
love. .
Further, be it resolved. That a copy
of these resolutions be sent to the
family, a copy published in the George
town Commercial and a copy in The
Battalion.
THE WILLIAMSON-BURNET
COUNTY CLUB.
S. C. McCARTY,
M. E. SAVAGE,
GUY ATER,
Committee.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
Whereas, Our Divine Father, in His
unbounded wisdom, has seen fit to call
home from this earth Christine Lang
ford, sister of our friend and class
mate, Ivan Langford, we, the sopho
more class of A. & M., do offer the
following resolutions:
1. Resolved, That we realize what
the death of a loving sister means to
a happy family, and further that we
extend our heartfelt sympathy to the
bereaved family in their unfortunate
hour of sorrow.
2. Resolved, That we take this
method of expressing our commisera
tion for the family, and be it further
resolved, that a copy of these resolu
tions be sent to the family and a copy
to The Battalion.
Respectfully,
J. BIEVENS,
M. E. SAVAGE,
G. ATER,
Committee.
HEARD IN BIOLOGY.
Prof: What can you say about the
flat-worm ?
Fish Johnson: It is very flat, sir.
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