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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1920)
12 THE BATTALION peg, us pat orr ...JwS'J £%q atf-year-round soft drink Fellowship—in college or out of it — flourishes best with good food and whole- some drink* Ice-cold Bevo—unexcelled among beverages in purity and healthfulness — is most satisfying as a drink by itself or a relish with food that makes a hap pier repast. Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis PRESENT DAY FASHIONS There are many fashions among the people of today that would have greatly shocked our Colonial grand parents. Foremost among them is the style in which the younger so ciety element is now clothing itself. It is no uncommon sight to behold young men gaily waltzing down the street inside of such close-fitting clothes that an outburst seems in evitable. From clothes observation it is seen that the pants have never met the shoes and seem to have been picked before they were thoroughly ripe; and the coats lead one to be lieve that artificial devices are used to acquire such graceful figures. These same young gentlemen wear long, narrow pointed shoes, above which may be seen a vast expanse of gaudily colored sox. The manner in which the hair is cut makes the head look more like a boiled onion than a necesary part of the anatomy. But the young men are not the only ones who have been attacked by friend Fashion. The young ladies also have lost all trace of the modest way of dressing. In warm weather it is strange to see them fully clad in serge coat suits with fur neckpieces draped around the shoulders and fur down as possible; while in cool weather it is amusing and interesting to see them chasing around half-clad in a mixture of tulle and crepe-de-chene. I would say more about this but there is not much to talk about. For some unknown reason they now roll their own below the knee. This cannot be done for the sake of com fort and surely not for the sake of necessity—but the fact remains that stockings are falling by the way- side—that they no longer hold the high place they once enjoyed. Passing from one extreme to the other it is noticed that the young lady wears a very tight-fitting velvet hat, as it now seems that winter hats are worn in the summer and sum mer hats in the winter. She wears one of two distinct types of dresses —either foolishly short or extremely long. (However, when one sees the short type they look long.) The astonishing fact is that low shoes are worn with short dresses and high shoes with long dresses. In the days of yore the young lady always had to dress for dinner; now the young lady ought to dress for dinner. Gettring down to bare facts, most of the social butterflies of today don’t wear enough clothes to wad a single barrel shot-gun shell. Not only has the style changed in dressing, but also in music. Rag time, Jazz, and Irish songs have stepped in and taken the place of the old melodies once considered so beautiful. In the music houses today, instead of hearing “In the Gloaming,” “Sewanee River,” or “Old Black Joe,” one hears something on the order of “Syncopated Sobs,” “Yelp ing Hound Blues,” or “All the Quakers are Shoulder Shakers.” It has been demonstrated in the theatres that the public prefers black-face comedians and semi-clad dancing girls to the famous opera stars. In the past the girls who could play selections from Beethoven and Bach were vei'y much admired, but now the young people much pre fer girls who can “hammer” a ukelele, or jazz on the piano such beautiful and elevating selections as “I Gave Her That,” or “You Can’t Get Any Lovin’ Where There Ain’t Any Love.” The change in music seems to have affected the art of terpsichore. In stead of the stately minuet of by gone days, or the more recent but still dignified quadrilles, we have the “Shimmie’, the “Owl Flop-Over” and “Walking the Dawg.” At dances now-a-nights, one may see couples madly running around the floor with cheeks pressed tightly together as if the close entwining of arms were not sufficient to propel them. If light is truly a wave motion, one will never find more than a ripple be tween partners. In the olden days the square dance was thought to be immodest because the gentlemen touched the ladies’ hand. When the waltz and other round dances became the vogue a terrible uproar was created because the gentleman’s hand slipped—be hind the ladies’ back. It has often been wondered what the good people who objected to the minuet would say if they could see a modern debutante slipping, sliding, dipping and wriggling around the floor with such blissful endurance as to be scarcely tired or attired. Dancing is not the only form of in door sport that has shown develop ment. The old time theatrical per formances have been practically ob literated by the motion picture show and the vaudeville. In the large city auditoriums, built primarily to ac commodate audiences at operas, con certs, political conventions and other meetings, the honor of the record breaking audiences usually goes to some heavy weight boxer, wrestler or slight-of-hand artist. And so it goes—^but it would be food for thought to remember that, while we are laughing at the styles of yesterday and today—that even now the days are passing, and just a few years hence it will be our turp to be shocked at the coming gen eration—our turn to shake only our heads and say: “We did not do that when we were young.” FACULTY FACTS AND CAMPUS CHAT. Dr. Bizzell was away from Wash ington last week. It is rumored that he will be gone about two weeks. * sji * All the barbers on the Campus seem to dislike Prof. McPheeters and Dr. Douglas. Prof. McPheeters says he can’t help it and Dr. Douglas says he doesn’t care if they do. * * * Mr. “Cheatum” has been confined to his bed for the past week. One of his clerks sold a Venus pencil for a nickle. ^ ijc :{« The Government is hot on the trail of profiteers they may arrest Mr. Lavinder for “shortcutting” the stu dents. * * * A western college has an organ re cital each morning before examina tions to soothe the minds of the stu dents. The Architectural class won ders if it is superior to the “organ- foot” recital they hear ever day. :i: :fc One of our C. E. Profs, was in such a hurry the other day to get a hair cut that he did’nt remove his hat or collar. He was in such a hurry that we did not learn his name. * * * A fashion expert declares that the white shirt is coming back. Wonder if he is talking about our laundry. Dean Puryear actually laughed in Calculus at Mark Swain. Mark did not see him though as he laughed up his sleeve. * * Don’t make us mad by saying our stenographers are Bolshevistic just because they make a “striking” ap pearance. ❖ ijt * Why do all the country boys get home-sick when they meet Prof. “Slim” James? He * Our telephones are not talked over as much as about. Jack Johnson says throwing the bull pays much better than the prize fight. We can’t help but wonder how much Prof. Brackett gets for teach ing school. * * * Bernard Sbisa, as subsistence sup erintendent, for over forty years has never missed a single meal in the Mess Hall. I wonder if there has ever been a cadet who has missed one!!
