Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-08-20
KEEP our OFT.lE TCHEN
" Whore ignorance is bliss,
Ills folly 10 BE- wise. D-Ep,y
2" You are too inllisitivc." -r.uL Pay.

Il Nhorc ignorance IL bliss,
Ills folly iO be- wiSe."-GR.r
You are toI iullsitivc." -r.uL Pay
"0Iri'sity caused the expulsion OF our i,st parents
from Paradise. "-.oMgBouY ELSE
In our college DAYS, we once s,rolled
INTO the Kitchen OF tue great hal. BENG
naturally curious, t, learn how cook
iug was managed ou scale SO extern
sive as TO meet the wants of some Two
hundred students. 1t was a quarter of
an nnur beine BREAKFAST, aud an enor-
mpdo Kettle TILED VAN coffee, (as II WAS
denp.ninated) hung glpumiug over the
tire. As IT'S cnntehi. BODIED aud bub-
bed, we observed ever ana anon, some
dark substance, eviienIly too larue To
be gram oi cnitec, rls,uS 10 the surface,
ahd INSTANTLY nuckiug dawn, as II us
deeds were evil. WHAT was 1t! o.
that very same lqnId, ~ fifteen minutes.
we we've IL paridke; we were To per-
suade our pdiites ti"t 1t WAS 0pma Hllc
c"H e., despite ui an iusinuatIons lnal u,
was maGe uipopIar leaves aud dams4ed
rye. what could that mysterious Jlck
substance bel was II IA sturgeon. Oh a me-
4'o's head, or stuck oil wood or stJy,
pipel Inc question was one ol great
personal Interest t,ok the d.
larn - our evil star had provided 4 cane
we plugged IL la the boiling ocean be-
lore us,aud raised To the FAIR lIanl o the
laughing muru, an OLD HAT. tieaveus
whut discovery even now, we tlen-
bic at the horlid recollection.
In lew minutes we were IN the
breakfast hall, carrying the hat on The
canes point. There were our class
mates masticatlng, with all their might,
the toughest bread IN Chr'stendum. and
pouring down their devoted throals, cup
alter cup, ol that Internal leverage.
Reader, perall us 10 BECOME lur "a
few minutes We sounds SD outiaudlsh
IN dialogue. | took my place next
to my friend Frank Stanley.
Flank, what are YOU drinking 2"
Coffee"
"Wili v',u take your oath OF that :"
VIVA, the deuc.. do you mean =
have been Ia the knclen-l have
made terrible dIscUvery-put downs
that crp, for mercv's eake!"
Here the whole tunle caught the
alarm =" Speuk out, speak out, speak -
resuunded on ali sides
g Fellow Juniors you probably ina.
J giue that you nave been drinking COT
fee no such thing you have been,
drinking HAT spUP-tere Is the hat 1t.
self holding up The still reeklng and
horrId masS, which had been boiied IN
to "A poiygon five minutes ago fish.
ed Tins Out al the cufi'e-keitle !"
/ That sam: .)unior Class Was compo.
sed of as many reckless dare devils as
were ever congregaled under one iopf-
they cared noih,mg ior thunder claps
OF stages IN tie process OF being capsl.
zed-ihey had once set at defiance all
the militia oi--county but this DIS
copery was too much Tor item ever,
one was appalled,, and they ali lett the
room mutering eXecrauons. That
night the Cook vas tarred and feather
ed, and rode on a raj, the Keeper o
! the hall was burnt in etligy. never
took another cup OF College coffee.
The story has It's moral. Curiosity
which kicked Eve oui OF Eden, and
sent DIR. Fau,tus to Old Nicholas,
! (lamilarly and endearmgIy called Old
Nick, is as olto the physical as it is
tn me intellectual appetite. TIE tree
Of knowledge is not the tree of life
and five gather the frnil of the former.
we close our relish Tor that OF ,he lat
ter. Reader, liyon are inclined to IN
| Gnletude-ii you 1--we in after dinner
dread "i'apppleXy-ln three weeks YOU
Will be as thin as Chsslus, without bis
T" hungry look" Bat if You wish to
/ enjoy the good things OF he, $, ek not
To be too wiSe--aud above all tbIpps
keep ot If the Kitchen.
| So with The S age. The time was.
when we hung with GREATNESS interest
OH the mimic scenes. We took a olas,
oi wine with VirgInIus, cracked ,nk e
with ApPius Caud;us, aud made or
best bow to Virginia, Iusl after the old
man had killed lef in the market.
! The charm was broker the golden
chain of imagination was severed-it
has never been reunited. IN. Y. Gnu.
The editor OF the Daily Sentinel,
Troy, makes mention Of scythe be-
longing to Mr.. Oliver Jewell, so sharp
tina, even its shodO'o, as it hung OH the
limb oi an apple tree in the bright sun.
cut mans foot half off
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