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Daily Iowan, January 30, 1919

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Page Six The Daily Iowan State University of Iowa Thursday, January 30, 1919 WANT ADS Rate 10c a line or fraction: 20% discount on three or more insertions. Want ads cash in advance. LOST----Pink and white cameo pin surrounded with pearls. Return to this office. Reward. LOST----Pair of nose glasses with white rims and dropleaf lens. Were in case Tel. 2125, 125 N. Clinton. LOST----Large size Waterman fountain pen between First National bank and campus. Return to Iowan office. LOST----Grey wool scarf with yellow stripes. Return Iowan office. FOR RENT----Modern front room at 505 E. Washington. LOST---A Pi Beta Phi pin. Reward. Phone 382. FOUND----Gold pencil on black ribbon. Owner may have same by paying for this ad. LOST----New Schaeffer pen. Return to Y.W.C.A. Reward. WANTED----A student who has had experience in an abstract office, or in county recorder's office. Phone 1042 or 1131. LOST----Solid gold, oval, engraved cuff link. Reward. Finder leave at this office. LOST----Canvas laundry box containing government clothing, including naval uniforms, towels and handkerchiefs at Y.M.C.A. several weeks ago. Reward. Return to 711 E. Burlington. C. V. S. LOST----A Hawkeye subscription book. Please return to Daily Iowan office. We have a part time opening for a student who can do general typewriter repair work. About two hours work a day. M. F. Patterson Co., Dey Bldg. LOST----Solid gold fountain pen with diamond point. Return to Iowan office. SENIOR INVITATION SAMPLES SELECTED Senior invitations have been selected, Romola Latchem, chairman of the invitation committee has announced. Six students representing the different colleges in the University formed a committee to make the decision. Leather and cardboard styles have been selected. The leather ones are brown in color with the Iowa seal in the lower right hand corner and an embossed "IOWA" in the upper left. The scene of the S.A.T.C. review appears inside the cover. Leather invitations will cost 40 cents and the cardboard will cost 22 cents. Notice will be given in The Daily Iowan when the samples arrive. Seniors will order immediately through the University book store. THREE MONTHS' COURSE IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION A three month's session of the School of Religious Education will be offered, beginning Feb. 4. Special invitation is made by the Board of Religious Education to teachers of Bible classes, parents, social workers and leaders. The school is not a part of the University but the use of the hall of liberal arts has been offered by University authorities and the meetings are held in that building. The school meets on Tuesday evenings from 7:15 to 9 o'clock. There are two classes periods with an assembly period between. MUSEUM SNAKES NATURAL AS LIFE University Museum Expert Devises New Process of Preserving Reptiles A new method for reproducing reptiles with all their color, form, and life-like appearance has been found by Prof. Homer R. Dill of the University. Professor Dill captures the reptile alive and after deciding on the position he wishes it to take in the museum he gives it gas. Then a negative impression is taken in plaster, and the animal is cast. The actual reptile does not appear at all in the museum group, but in its stead is a reproduction which the severest critic cannot tell from the living reptile. These casts will keep indefinitely and are not a prey to insects and moths. The reptile after it has been cast is tinted by hand, even to the minutest markings on the scales, the specimen is made true to life. This method is now being used with rattlesnakes. Four diamond-back rattlers have been thus reproduced for the museum, and a fifth to complete the group is still alive. The rattlers from the snakes are placed on the form which has been reproduced and it is impossible to detect the snakes are counterfeit. When spring comes and snakes, frogs, and lizards come out, a large collection of our native reptiles will be prepared for the University museum by this process. Painting of the reproduced animal is done by a graduate student from the University art department. The work is delicate and painstaking. "FRIENDLY ENEMIES" HERE Famous War Comedy-Drama Will Be Presented This Evening "Friendly Enemies," one of the best productions of the season, will appear at the Englert theatre this evening. An excellent company will present the popular comedy-drama. Karl Pfeifer, who has left his heart back in the fatherland and Henry Block, a German, who has unreservedly accepted true blue Americanism are main characters. The play reaches a serious stage when Pfeifer's son turns up as a lieutenant in the United States army bound for France on the next transport. Arguments between Block and Pfeifer grow serious. Then a German secret service agent comes into the plot. He has secured a subscription of $50,000 from Mr. Pfeifer, and soon reports "good news"----the transport upon which the patriotic son of the unregenerate father has sailed has been sunk through treachery. Mr. Block has already said of Mr. Pfeifer: "I called you a mule once, but the next time I see a mule, I am going to apologize to him." When the horror of the German methods comes home to Pfeifer,----when his hot denials of published atrocities are cancelled with a personal tragedy for which he himself is partly responsible, there is a great change in the heart and mind of Pfeifer. He becomes American and anti-Hun; down come the pictures of Hindenburg and the Kaiser and up go the engravings of Washington and Wilson. The young soldier is brought to life, of course, in time to permit a thoroughly happy ending. When the curtain falls he is teaching his converted parents, at their request, the words and tune of "America." Iowa is scheduled for an excellent baseball season. Get your "I" ticket now and be prepared to see all the games. THE OLD DAYS OF MIRACLES OR OF FAIRY TALES HAVE NOT PASSED AWAY A chance discovery of a process for rejuvenating rubber may result in fame and commercial success to expert chemists here. The whole affair reads like a fairy tale. More than fifteen years ago Dr. R. R. Williams of Manning thrust a pair of rubber gloves he had been using for dissecting purposes into a bottle containing a certain solution. While cleaning his office not long ago, he came upon this bottle and out of curiosity opened it. Now comes a story like Jack and the Beanstalk. Dr. Williams reached down into the bottle and drew forth the gloves of fifteen years ago and (you won't believe it) they had grown four times their original size. Calling in his friends from neighboring offices he displayed the phenomenal gloves, and they were amazed to find that they could stretch them from one end of the doctor's office to the other and that no amount of tugging or pulling could cause them to tear. A part of the gloves which had not been covered with the solution fell off, completely decomposed. The gloves were size 8 1/2, the number looms up on the inside in figures two inches tall and in proportionate width. Dr. Williams had to admit to his wondering friends that he had not the slightest notion what the solution was into which he had thrown the gloves and which made them take on such marvelous properties. One day Dr. Williams displayed the gloves to Ruth Rogers from Manning who attends the University, and she immediately asked permission to take them and the solution to the chemical laboratories here and have an analysis made. The analysis is now going on. Prof. R. A. Kuever of the chemistry department declares that the commercial value of such a product will be tremendous. The discovery forms a basis for the rejuvenation of rubber, such as automobile tires, and the added fact that the treated rubber is more elastic than new makes it doubly valuable. The University is interested in the solution only from a scientific standpoint. As soon as professors have completed the analysis and learned the constituents and their proportions, they will acquaint Dr. Williams with the facts and attempt to get satisfactory relations established between the Iowa doctor and some large rubber company. DREAMS ARE SHATTERED "is that ordinary looking civilian back there the fellow who looked so spiffy in his lieutenant's uniform?" a girl asked me yesterday. "Now I'm glad I didn't fall in love with a lieutenant," she continued. "Think how I would have been disappointed." She isn't the only one who has had her bright dream shattered by the sight of her "only only" as he appears in citizens' clothing. Broad shoulders set off by dress suit khaki, attract the clinging vine much more than shoulder blades clothed in navy blue. Leather puts occasion more rapturous signs of admiration than purple socks. "Woe to the Kaiser," the disillusioned one cries. If it hadn't been for him she would never have had cause to wish that her soldier [love?] be given a commission in the regular army. All too often the farewell to the uniform means farewell to the man also. But such is life Girls, [let's?} weep. The economic seminar was held at the home of Prof. Paul S. Peirce on West Bloomington street, last night. Prof. N. R. Whitney read a paper on "Economic Laws and Economic Lawyers." Let The Iowan be your letter. [advertisement] [illustration of outline of the letter I] THE DAILY IOWAN $1.50 for the Rest of the School Year Iowan Advertisers Obtain Good Results
 
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