The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-03-10
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Correspondence Of The Cecil Whis

Correspondence Of The Cecil Whig.
Dear Mr.. Ediior:-Rain, rain, still nothing
but rain. Not one smile of sunshine worthy the
name, have we had Tor week. Yesterday it
stopped for little WHILE and deluded many into
the belief that it was actually going 10 clear up;
but the knowing ones still held on to umbrellas,
and the credulous 70 und out to their cost, that 4
little sunshine is not necessarily fair weather.
This morning as usual nv first outward glance,
fell on sloppy pavemcnts and muddy pedestrians
while
ssTiic under roof of dololul gray,'
as Tennyson says was still "bult up every
wherc" and it was raining and hailing in way
peculiar to itself. The aundrcsses are IN fren-
" about tror wet clothes, and their misrosscs
in u pet because they are not ready "any how"
The chickens seem 10 have the aguo, and sit
about in corners shaking dresdiuly; even the
little pigs are tired out, and the cows look bro
ken hearted. And this, MIR. Editor, IS Spring,
tho season poets rave about. Oh! when will the
change begin, and the brown grass and the black
trees lie covered with emerald, and the bee and
the butterfly be seen in our wet, drear, forsaken
bowers. Is there no plan in this age Of Progress,
sicar-powcr, and tclegraphs, to hasten the lin
rering season. II seems that in this epoch of
hurry, hurry, hurry, we cannot wait the slow
advent of the months, and put up with their
capriciousness and change. Do we not live fast
now NV attention was called to this by sove-
raj little events, exhibitions of prccocity) which
occurred this evening among some juveniles,
which perfectly acknowledging. never dreamed
offs UGH rapid strides in mental requirements, and
i'll am not timely gifted with supernatural
strength TO keep up with them, fear shall be
LETT out Of sight altogether. Little girls-l beg
p,rdon-vouug ladies grow so fast now that they
forret their pima ores at six years old. Young
gentlemen are cut before thcir whlskers, and
have reached the Moore and Bponic era other
existence, (ofwhich mure anon,) and talk oil
s.thcir first love-" and their second and thiid
and tw enticih, before their smooth soft.
innocent chns have gotten into their first scrape
with razor. The spring goods are opened and
purchased while still rude Boreas has almost
Three months to rule, Really. Mr. Editor,
know ladies who vcntured out in the bl,teres'
da u Of this bitter winter to select their spring
dresses Only think Of purchasing something
light and cool' this weather. IL makes me
shiyer to think oft
But the rapid plans-the steam power systems
now adopted in our schools, are the most sur
prlsing. Young as 1 am seem already to have
been born hundred years ago, have bren so
often slenced with tive don't do things that way
now &C.; "our books are entirely different,
yours is ar old troublesome mathod," ana SO l
am put down. and have 10 stay put.
remember an anecdote of an old teacher OF
mathematics who belonged TO the slow and sure
stage coach era, who had, or was about to have,
ono the princes of France for his pupil. The
royal papa of Young hopeful, distressing, per-
hnps, the arithnctical capacity of his and
heir, --and there being no mcsmerism and pllre-
noloSy in those days to GeVelopo alcnts whose
existence was never previously suspected in
private conversation with the mathematician, 70
quested him to simplify the science and make
il altogether easier for the incipient m monarch.
"NIay it please your majesty" answered the
honest teacher, "there is no royal road to math-
cnatics!" Dear sir, could no have peered half
Il century into iutnrity, what would he have
thought and seen. Why our Young gentleman
they have begun to comprehend the commences
mcnt, and | am at loss to know how it is done,
unless they begin at the end and GO forward or
commence in the middle and 90 both-ways |
am not disposed to grumble at those things, but
they do surprise me- nd cannot help wishing
that such plans had been discovered some years
ago, when we little nihnles-had perfect faith
in the old story that there twas no royal road
10 mathematics 3" How barren and dreary too,
was the old trodden way through the dry desert
of a tear-bedewed gram mar, till VIC emerged IN
to the flowery fc Ids Of foreign literature. Now,
children are taught to speak and read at once,
in aiour easy lessons" It may be, and it saves
deal Of trouble no doubt. know young lady,
Mr.. Editor, who can read and converse in four
different languages, including Hebrew, with
perfect ease, and who at the same time is totally
ignorant of SO much good and evil, as to enable
her to tell n noun from verb in either, and
very much doubt-e kept perhaps in case OF
great emergency, if she could tel whether the
Hebrews we're found IN Ireland, or are at presen,
dwellers in Kamschalka.
D,b,ps talks of forcnp school in tho DAYS
of tho renowned DR. Blrnber; but his plants seem
ed to suffer from the process and grew up to be
poor s. sckly, and from coming heiure their time
had mt tho right taste about them. In these fast
times, we arc many steps beyond him, for all
such suherings seem entirely avoided, and our
young plants appear to flourish exceedingly.
Whether they have any firm root or not; is Of
no consequence, it scoms.
| friend told us an anecdstc the other day,
which has bearing on this subject He was
Standing near the rail road waiting for the cars
Mt Elk Ridge, when n little child not having the
| fear of power before its eyes, came out OF
nei1hboring cottage and sat down to play upon
the track. Its anxious mother, espying its dan
gerous situation, ran to the door and exclaimed
sscome off there, IN ono moment, you little ras
cal, or else III come after you and teach you
SOME sensc' This awful threat had immudlate
effect, for he ran in in the widest alarm IL is
ohsnl;tc, YOU see, to talk 10 children of ghosts
and hobgoblins-we have lar more potent bug
| bear coiEiaon sense.