The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-01-13


day, were so rude as to make sport Of farmer
and his wife, who were quietly leaving town
in their wagon for home. The only cause for
this was, that the farmers horses, and proba-
bly, the farmer, in appearance, did not accord
with the young mems ideas of this fast age.
At any rate, their cries of ''whoa" and ridicule
were evidently annoying to the gentleman and
lady in the wagon, although they wisely made
no response. Such conduct on the part of
young men, is exceedingly reprehensible, no
matter how ridiculous in appearance may be
the objects of their ridicule. The circumstan-
ces that keep the Iaboring classes behind the
fashions and confines them to laundering life
among the clods, may possibly rise from depths
of sorrows and difficulties, which, if known to
the world, would touch the springs of human
ity in all souls, and strings OF the heart that
would vIbrate in sympathy, instead Of ill-man-
nered sport. "a mans manners commonly
shape his fortune,'' was the head line of our
coPy-book years agone, and it contains truth
which young men will do well to heed.
There is nothing in the character of young
man who finds amusement in humiliatiDg
those whom nature has not furnished with
handsome form or the circumstances oflife with
a cheerful countenance or n fashionable garb,
that promises for the old age of any such young
man better conditions than attach to those he
laughs at. Such manners do not make a mans
fortune, nor even make man. 1t is true that
there are some whose behind-the-time appear
ance and manners are in striking contrast with
their surroundings, laughably absurd, but it
is not a mark of good breeding to humiliate
and embarrass them by open ridicule.
THE SECOND WARD ScHooLs.-In our pere-
CARNATIONS on Thursday through the city in
quest of news, the shouts of children just let
out for the day, attracted our attention to the
new school house in the second ward, in which
schools for two grades out of six of the rising
generation in this school district were opened
on "Wednesday. Surprising that the room from
which the aforesaid juveniles emerged was
vacant, we unceremoniously opened the door,
and surprised the 'Eschool-marm' and couple
of youngsters who, we supposed, had not been
very studious during the afternoon and were
| doing penance in the darkest hour before
| day. as an atonement. But in this we may
| have been mistaken, and for the sake of the
| young lady and gentlemaR thus detained, we
| hope so.
This room is occupied by primary grade
under the tuition of Miss Emma Hunt, former
ly student of the State Normal School, and a
lady who, although not experienced in this
department Of teaching, has had experience in
the governing of higher grades, and is doubt
less possessed with the peculiar qualifications
Of mind and heart indispensable to success in
the management of scholars of the primary de-
partment. She has thirty scholars, and wishes
that she had more-a wish that will very
speedily be gratifed, as there are yet plenty o.
urchins on that side of Commercial street as
Piring to a knowledge of first principles whC
have not yet enrolled their names on her list
L PASSING into the nSxt ronn had the Mica
IRE of hearing forty children, (more OF less)
one degree further along in the books, singing
, their spelling lesson, Gan exercise that is no
, numbered with the recollections of our owl
experience at this stage. There were peda
, gogues in those days, giants they were consid
cred, who had no music in their soulsl. Thu
melody was not the sweetest, but the Vigol
with which they all united in the concert wa
interesting to see, and if Miss Lizzie Shepard
r their tutoress, inspires them with the same de
, gree Of interest in everything else that the!
evinced in singing, her success as a teacher il
assured. Miss Shepard came to Emporia from
the high schools of Xenia, Ohio, last summer
with excellent recommendations, and has rem
dered entire satisfaction as an assistant of Mis-
e Patty in the higher grades in the stone build
= ing. She has forty-one scholars on her roll.
: The upper room in this house is not yet fur
; nlSut(l, anu Is as DOJ0 the lower room
e together. On the whole the house is a mucl
I better one than, from the amount of bonds vot
S ed to buildit it, we had expected TO see, although
b the cost of it, finished, exceeds the amount re
:, allied ON the bonds about fifteen hundred dol
= lars, and is something more than 81, 600 in al
: The district officers, however, are deserving c
IS a vote of thanks for their efforts to secure S
Is good building. 1t is, without the eXpend
e ture of large sum for ornamentation, a yer
II handsome building, combining with an eli
L CANT external appearance the greatest possibl
room and convenience within for the smalle.
x possible sum Of money. The desks in the low
Is CT rooms, might suggest, are a little too fl
1t apart for the comfort of the pupils, the seat f.
er each desk being attached to the next desk b.
k, hind. The scholars consequently are oblige
" to lean too far forward for grace, comfort,
a perpendicular spinal development. The
Id again, before commencing school, a little elbo
grease might have been advantageously e:
pended in cleaning the win6Sws, floors an
u stovepipes. And If some muscular and reli
e BILE scrubber should devote Saturday to th
NJ business, it would help the appearance
NC things much, besides helping Young Ameri'
10 clearer perception Of his lessons, or ev'
W TO = better view of the world above, If he
On disposed TO look up. But as "the world W
81 not made in day" we might not have SCI
anything of this kind few days tter.