2) 4 THE COLLEG NEWS . Christmas Play . Io be Presented Friday evening, December ~~ 15, the French Club will pre- sent La Mystére de la Na- tivité in the music room of ‘ the French House. It will appear as found in the 15th century manuscript with only slight changes, and will in- clude some Christmas songs collected by Mlle. Rey. Most of the club will participate. Chilean Excavation Furnishes Material Gontinued from Page One trated in a restricted space. The original inhabitants used the same camping sites. yearafter- year, so that their possessions have been preserved in horizontal layers -of clay-and in shell-mounds along the coast. The first South Americans, after crossing the Bering Straits, pushed southward east of the Rockies. ‘The people: were not canoe-users, but inland game hunters. Finding the same land animals in South as_in North America, they spread out to Patagonia, settling under the pre- cipitous mountain ranges of the much-indented west coast and also in the cold windy plains east of the mountains. In a small sailing vessel Mr. and Mrs. Bird traveled down the Chil- ean coast, exploring the tropical forests and camping at sites estab- lished by generations. of. Indians. The deposited shells of the mussels, the natives’ stable diet, have. en- couraged ‘vegetation and so land- mark camping grounds for all vis- itors. In these shell-mounds, Mr. Bird found polished stone tools, shaped by percussion flaking, with sharp points and blunt edges. Fish- hooks and pointed instruments were discovered in the second level, and in another layer some crude pottery appeared. The earliest tools were probably made at the time of the arrival of the Spaniards in the new world. 0 Another group of «shell-mounds revealed a layer of knife and arrow points, hooks, ornaments, and bo- las on top of extremely primitive tools. This is clear evidence of the arrival of a new people, probably about 1800 years ago. This may be estimated by the extent that the land has risen, about two and a half feet every 300 years. This date ties up with the fourth period tools found in voleanic caves of Argen- tina. Another site for excavation was the Palli Aike Crater. Caves in this area concealed beneath their floors the bones of extinct animals used for food: giant ground sloths, last animals of the Pleistocene period, and native American horses. In one cave, five different cultures were uncovered, including stemless projectile points from the third period, and skulls from crematiorf burials. These were not of an es- pecially primitive type. — Mr. Bird described his hosts, the Indians of the west coast, as good representatives of the eavliest cul- ture. These people show no inven- tive ability and have probably ad- vanced very little beyond their an- cestors. Extremely lazy,*they do no more work than is necessary to exist. Most of their timé is spent *|ter leave-with thanks. in eating and sleeping. Z Donald. Duck, Tillie Satisfy Enlightened Instincts of Wistful Bryn Mawrters By Marguerite Bogatko, ’41 It is impossible ty go through four years of cgHége without get- ting in a little/reading.. But what do they read, these college girls— in their spare time, I mean? There must be some form of literature that takes their typical ,maiden fancy. Observe our average Bryn Mawr student, a wistful child named Mary with deep circles undef her eyes. We can find her any weekday morning fighting with her friends in the smoking room over the latest development in Terry and the Pi- rates or Donald Duck. Not all of us may sympathize with Mary but can we blame her? A detailed an- alysis of the matter shows that Mary is a truly enlightened mem- ber of society and that she is very wisely learning about life as ‘well as’ about who are the Muses and what is an erg and why think to some purpose. Mary is modern. She is not afraid to face the underworld as it is or English as it may be spoken. She savors to the full each word and situation: when Joe Palooka says with terse simplicity, “That’s ‘lwhat we wanted t’talk t’youse about, sir, etc. etc.’’, or when Down- wind rushes to Jack’s bedside’ with a cheery, “I want you to meet th’ cutest bevy of de-icers that ever de- iced.” Beneath her blasé and intellec- tual little extérior, Mary wants a home and babies. She wants to be just a woman, a glamorous woman, perhaps, but a helpless womanly woman. When Tillie can’t work the can opener and just has to ask dreat big Mr. Simkins to help her and when Baby Dumpling inno- cently drops the flat iron on daddy’s toe, it sort of gets Mary. There’s something so simple and refreshing —something so real about it. all. Perhaps one of the most signifi- cant factors is that it isn’t only Mary who reads the funny papers. Down in the periodical room sit the stern philosopher and the bearded English professor, and |with a seri- ous but attentive eye’ they read them to the:-last word. They do not laugh; surely they can’t be. inter- ested in the womanly woman or the Sub-Nietschean Super Man. Why do they read them, then? That’s what we’ve always wanted t’talk t’yousé about, sirs. B. M. Customers Only Can Charge at Greeks Continued from Page One observation, we asked him what changes there had been in the Bryn Mawr girl during the 20 years he had worked at the Greeks’. He said practically none; in fact there was really no difference. These were hard words, but we swallowed them and have been trying to digest them ever since. Returning to the matter of fact, we asked if the present girls played the nickelodia much. “Sometimes in the afternoon they play it. And they dance occasionally.” (That was a new one on us.) “Could you tell us what they eat- for the most part?” “They eat grilled cheese sand- wiches.” (That was that) “They drink coca-cola and milk shakes. A very few take beer.” Mike told us that more coca-cola and ice cream are sold at the Greeks’ than at any store on the outskirts of . Philadel- phia. We asked if they ever had any trouble and Mike said that “no rough stuff” ‘was allowed but that occasionally someone had to be “chucked out.” Having consumed several coca- colas and a large amount of Mike’s time, we thought that we had bet- We had just got to the corner when we realized that we had taken off with a pack of chewing gum for which we had not been charged. We were forced to rush back at headlong speed Bryn Mawr Heralds Concert by Menuhin Cont‘nued from Page One England, the continent, South Afri- ca and finally Austrailia. Menuhin was born in New York in 1916, but his childhood was spent in San'Francisco. When four years old, he began taking violin lessons from Sigmund Anker and then from Louis Persinger. At the age of seven he appeared as soloist with the San Francisco Orchestra and at the Metropolitan. Two years later he went abroad to study with Georges Enesco and Adolph Busch and had a sensational debut in Paris. In 1934-85 he made a record breaking tour around the world giv- ing in all 110 concerts in 13 differ- ent countries. Since then he has been alternating periods of study with performances. Crities of his concerts this year have found his playing more ma- ture, more emotional, yet retaining its poetical refinement. He brings to the music the same freshness and genius which distinguished him as a child, but added to that is the flawless technique of a man. (nickel clasped in _ outstretched hand) to uphold the Bryn Mawr honor. SELECT GIFTS 138 S. 17th Street Philadelphia invite you to visit our display of Gifts for all ages “from Baby to Granddad.” ye -_ —_ —- 1726 CHESTNUT ST. For 86 Years Books- for Gifts from Brentano’s Telephone Rittenhouse 9325 1332 WALNUT ST. Page Three City Lights ~By Rebecca Robbins, °42.~ Philadelphia, as you may have heard, is the least progressive of cities, Other American cities, with federal subsidy, have gone on, in the American way, to build bridges (improvements), to tear down slums and plan happily geometric housing developments of clean bright brick (also sunshine and cross ventilation). Philadelphia has torpidly watched its City Council refuse federal funds because it couldn’t put up the minor fraction of the capital re- quired by the current federal pro- vision for partial subsidy of pro- posed improvements. Street after street in. the.central city is lined with decayed houses. Under pressure of Philadelphia big business, the Council refused to éx- empt slum properties from back taxes—which will never be paid— unless big business real estate was also exempted. At*the same time, owners of slum property raised prices - (automatic reaction to ru- mors of possible government pur- chase). Taxes plus this raised price prohibited the buying. up of blocks of slum ground. Even when Congress authorized the F. H. A. it seemed at first that the Philadelphia Housing Commit- tee would accomplish nothing. But the Committee, headed by Judge Frank Smith, has gone qnietly to work to produce “hous- ing” in undeveloped areas. Then, after slum-dwellers move into the new low-income projects, the rag- ged shells downtown will be left to crumble in ghost-town leisure. And the government will be able to buy at government leisure, for little more than taxes, and clear out. the central city. Every so often now, one reads an unobtrusive feature on housing in a Democratic Philadelphia paper. A tract of land at 46 and Market, bounding a decaying colored sec- tion, will be the site, of a jousing development. The land is now part subse Tobe-Coburn School Offers Fellowships Tobé-Coburn School for Fashion Careers, Rockefeller Center, New York, is again offering five Fash- ion Fellowships to members of this year’s senior class. Each Fellow- ship .covers a year’s tuition of 700 dollars in the school. Only one will be awarded in any -college or university. Members of the senior class who wish to apply for one of the Fash- ion Fellowships must. mail regis- tration blanks to the school on or before January 31. All applicants will answer a series of qualifying ruary 29. Those whose work is considered most. promising will be asked to proceed with a fashion research project, due April 15. Announcement of the awards will be made April 25. . Registration blanks, along with complete information about the Fashion Fellowships and the Tobé- Coburn School, are available in the Bureau of Recommendations. of the extensive grounds of a hospi- tal for the mentally diseased. An undeveloped site near the river, at 30 and Ritter, is also being claimed. Roland Randall, Committee vice- chairman, is at Ninth and Poplar, swooping with a pick-axe at an old |house, and grinning broadly (think- ing inner thoughts, no doubt, about the progress of humanity). ; aaa Shopping ‘is no fun Let flowers be your present this year. JEANNETT’S will order and plan your Christmas gifts with origi- nality. » if you get it at Merry Christmas ! 7 It’s the same old wish, but it won't be the same old gift Richard Stockton’s When you come back after Xmas . These. special school and college rail tickets, with their liberal extend- ed return limits, are immensely popu- lar with and a great saving to stu- dents and teachers. When you're ready to come back after Christmas, Spring Holidays come you can use buy one and save money. When ~ Be Thrifty and Safe—Travel by Train ASSOCIATED EASTERN RAILROADS the return coupon to travel home again or use it at close of school. 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