Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-07-12
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Young America Illustrated.

Young America Illustrated.
well, Tommy said his mother to her
Oldest hope who had come home from
boarding school, to spend vacation, swell,
Tommy, what studies have you had this terml'
Lots of 'em = said the promising youth.
Let me see, there's reading and writing,-
of course don't study them. They're too
low. I'll tell you what study Orthogra-
ply, Etymology, Syntax and PrOsody, Addi--
ton, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division
My, gracious, Tommy, you don't mean to
say you study all of theml'
sYes'm.'
well, times has changed remarked his
mother. They didn't begin to know SO
much in old times as they do now. why,
when l went to school, did mt study anything
but 'Rithmetic, Grammar, and Jogriphy, and
here's my Tommy, at the same age, studying
ever so many things with hard names that l
never heard of before
I'm afraid she continued, looking anx-
iously at Tommy, that you'll injure your
health with SO many studies. | thought you
locked rather pale as you came in. Hadn't
you better ask the master to drop off two or
three of the hardestl
90, no, they're just as easy as winkin',
said Tommy, suiting the action to the word,
Especially Addition
Everything always did come easy TO him,
said his mother, as Tommy went out to take
another Whit at his first cigar, to which, per-
haps, might be attributed the paeness of which
his mother had spoken. He's born genius,
can't help saying it if he is my son.
There are a great many genius-es of this de-
scription in the world.
Appropos to the above, we may as well ap-
pend an instance of ingenuity on the part of
Young America, which has come to our knowl-
edge. At boarding school in New England,
the use of tobacco in any form was strictly
prohibited. But our readers need not TO be
reminded that forbidden fruit is oftentimes
considered the most inviting. Two boys, of
fourteen, at least, appeared to think so. One
Saturday afternoon, having placed half mile
forth their cigars, and essayed to smoke
When they had carried the experiment as far
as inclination prompted, and were reminded
- by sundry qualms of the unpleasant conse-
quences following such indulgence, they began
TO fear they should be detected by their breath
affected by the cigars. They hardly knew
how 10 extrcate themselves from this embar-
rassment, till one exclaimed:
Il say, George, know how we can get off
slick
Well, out with it.
Let us eat great quantity of sorrel.-
That will take away the smell of the cigars,
and if we should happen to be sick, we could
lay it TO that.
The suggestion was voted good one, and
Immediately acted on. Hardly had the boys
reached home, when they began 10 pay the
penalty of their indulgence.
What have you taken TO make YOU sick .
asked the Principal.
1t must be the sorrel,' replied the boys
We ale good deal of it out in the pasture
All that accounts for it, said the Princi-
pal. It's strange, however, that 1 never re-
marked the injurious effects of eating this lit
tie esculent. However, we have abundant
proof of it in this case.'
An order was forthwith promulgated that no
boy connected with the school should thence
forth venture to taste sorrel, on pain of being
made sick thereby, and in addition receiving a
reprlmand. The next number of highly re-
spectacle medical journal contained an article.
written doubtless BY the Principal aforesaid,
on the Danger Of Eating Sorrel.'