The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-08
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From Our olcn Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 8, 1870.

NEW YORK, April 8, 1870.
''WaxinR at Schools"
The subject of corporal punishment at the !
public schools has been agitated by the Board
of Education. This is theme which every few
months affords directors the opportunity to
waste all their ungrammatical eloquence. Not
very long ago corporal punishment was
abolished in all the public schools, on the
ground that it was degrading to the pupil, and
in too many cases mere pretext for crafty
ing the teachers vile passions, without any
reference to the fact that it sometimes
transgresses the bounds of decency
and defeats the very end it was intended to
secure. Now it seems, however, since Mr.
Boecher has discovered that sugar-cane is not
the only cane fit to bring up child on, that
corporal correction is to be reinstated into its
old place. One of the directors prudently made
the suggestion that it should be administered to
the small boys only, and that the large ones
should he allowed to 90 unwalloped on account
of the physical improbability of female teachers
coping with them. If there is truth in statis-
tics however, it is generally feminine teachers
who are most successful in administering this
sort of chastisement, and who are least merci-
full in the degree of it which they inilict. The
non-waxing system has had pretty fair trial,
and is said to have been failure, and now the
"waxing" regime is to be restored with especial
reference to the Small Boy.
TriiingraI Love.
Not many months ago young girl of about
sixteen married an old man of sixty. The girl
was Irish by birth, but had been brought up by
Germans in this country, SO that she spoke Eng
lish with beautiful brogue made up of equal
parts of Irish and German accent. The man Is
q FreDchman, and though he has been con-
siderable time in this country, cannot speak
word of its language. How he made love it
would not be easy to tell if love were passion
that required words for its expression. Happily,
however, it is such a mysterious and profound
emotion that words often only obscure the
meaning it burns TO express. | suppose he made
signs to her signifying certain moods and lenses
of the verb G,no, and that she responded to
the conjugaton. At any rate they were
duly married, and had not been married
long BEFORE as with "Sr Peter and "Lady
Teazle, he found that he had young wife and
she discovered that she had an old husband He
was very jealous; she was very provocative of
jealousy. He used to lock her up in her room,
whence she used to escape at all hours of the
night and day. Finally the trilingual pair made
their appearance yesterday afternoon in one of
the police courts of this city. The French seXa-
genarian pleaded his case very pathetically in
his own language, but seemed to produce no
effect whatever upon the heart of the Irish
German of sweet sixteen.
"Come, oh, come with me-" he exclaimed,
endeavoring to put his arms around her. He
expressed himself of course in French, of which
this is free translation, with the poetic tinge
preserved which it possessed in the original.
IT yeel not; veel not" exclaimed the young
girl.
"Come, oh, come with mel" pleaded the
Frenchman once more, with doating leer
Deaming from his eye.
81 veel not; veel not !" exclaimed the girl
once more in a melodramatic voice.
Thereupon ensued trilingual gibbering
which Mr. Fechter might have understood, TAX
ing in the sense of all three languages simulta-
neously, but which nobody in court did. The
young girl 'made for him" in both English aud
German, pouring forth language with a volu-
bility which it was pity was not spent upon
better cause. He answered her back again in
equally voluble French uRtl at length the
police justice put an end to the matter by ad-
vising her to go home and give him another
trial, which she at length agreed to do.
The spanish Ballet
at the Tammany is one of the greatest frauds
that have ever been produced in this country.
Where the members of it were picked up |
cannot pretend to say, but should hardly say
they came from Madrid. They bear no evi-
dences of CASTLE about them-not even soap !!
and Jnelr dancing Is nOullng uOre lnan u
skippety-skip that the veriest tyro in a bale
would lie ashamed of not being able to execute.
The Patti Concert
was on Wednesday evening at Steinway Hall,
and last evening at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music, attended by enormously large and en-
thusiastic audiences Did you ever hear the
strong, sweet strains produced by bell-ringers ?
Her voice is just as melodiously mellow as
that and New York audiences seem just be-
ginning to appreciate it in all its extraordi-
nary merit. ALI BABA.
The Late X. N. ThRyer MidshiDmBu.
In our obituary of the late Mr.. e. N. ThaYer we