Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09

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bal difference is marked and inten- |
sive, as will be seen from the follow
ing illustrations
am not trucklc 10 your lordship,
Tho forfeit fame and fortune"
aThey meet upon the smooth shaven lawn |
To throw the ball and trundle the hoop"
The trundle bed suggests the
sweetest scenes of childhood. 1t has
been embalmed in song and set to
music, and plays pleasant part in
all the dreams of our happy past. !
The domestic tutor was subjected
to another and more public humili-
alton than sleeping in the little bed.
He was never to presume to sit
above the salt. The table was diVi-
ded into upper and lower messes by
huge salt-cellar, and the rank of
visitors was denoted by their being
placed above or below it. It was
presumption not to be tolerated
that the tutor should sit above. AS
there was no special servitOr of the
salt it is fairly inferred that the I'M
fortunate man was sometimes S'shOrt
Of seasoning" Happily that period
is past, and the Improvement in
glass-making renders it possible for
even a poor parson to have a stand
for his own use, and additional ones
when the Bishop or church "com-
panie'' is expected. This is little
extravagant, perhaps, for the 'cOn-
ditions" are not always good. Ser
wants are careless, and sometimes
the cook concludes to set up for her
self, and the dainty dishes "are lost
in the slop.p lit doesn't matter
much where hungry man sits at
trencher, if he can get enough to
eat. The trencher-chaplain was
never to change his trencher, bowl
or plate twice. In other words,
should he hunger never so much for
the all tempting frumenty, or veal
pie, he was not to send back for a
second supply. This arrangement
saved both labor and food My
landlady tried it once with some
hungry" school boys. There was
this difference, however, she gave
each boy a double quantity at first.
But the poor soul had scarcely tasted
her own portion before the plates
were back. She didn't try such
strategy the second time without
some domestic tutoring"
The original idea in "trench" is
to fortify, and hungry school
children have fortified themselves
on smaller ratiOns than two good
slices of pie, if we may accept the
statements of, philanthropic novel
writers. In pleasant contrast to
these is the picture (given by an Oc-
casiOnal contributor of the 1'ribune)
of the great kitchen at Oxford (;
which remains just as it was built
/ by WOlsey centuries ago. They use
nothing so absurdly modern as a
range. There is high, but shallow
fire, fenced by grating, before
which slowly turn several spits,
loaded with chickens, game, legs of
mutton, and mighty pieces of beef,
all giving out smell to make an
anchOrite break his vows. A lordly
head cook markets for the college,
and sends to the rooms of the unde-
/ graduates the delicate little din
ners and luncheons they are con-
tinually ordering. On the pretty
decorated china are spread countless
pink slices of cold beef and ham,
picturesquely garnished quantities
of cold game in resigned attitudes !;
and no end of little hot buildings,
tarts and turn-Overs, rObed in Won
drOus French paste.
But not to a dinner of this sort
was the histrionic trencher-chapelain
ever invited. In fact | have little
heart to go on with the rigid regula-
tons to which he was compelled to
submit. "The common cOurtesies,
sit bare at meat, and one half rise
and watt" he could yield with
ready grace, because, they were
common, but the last condition was
enough to try the temper of any
mere mortal, teacher or chapelaine,
viz.
THAT he should never his young master
But he must ask his mother to define
How many jerks she would his back should
line.
Ny own impression is that his
mother would have made things too
lively for domestic tutor, or a
peaceably inclined preacher, acting
on inspired injunctiOns regarding
the rod and the child. Should the
asking have taken place about the
setting in of the cold season.
A long farewell my erring brother,
To the five marks and winter livery.
l see him shiverine, as he leaves
the gentle squire's to seek another
situation, where the young masters
mother has enlightened views con.
corning corporal punishment" Our
modern school system has never
seen fit to repeal this act of asking
True, there has been achange in the
law, but it only affects the author
ity appealed to. The number OF
jerks is no longer defined by the
mother but by the Board, the school
directors, or other power behind the
! throne. In some cases the father
has attempted ''tO lay down the
law" but his signal failure has not
made the experiment attractive
. When to whip, whom to whip, and
how to whip, are questions that
have been painfully pOndered by
J many, since the time when the mat
ter was so clearly defined for the
poor tutor. BY all means, the young
master himself is the proper person
to decide the number of jerks, for
he,alone "knowS how hard it hurts. y
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picture. In France the poor boys
had no maternal protection against
the master, and miserable set dc
they appear. Rods were reckOned
among the necessary expenses of q
college, and a good grove had at.
fractions undreamed of in Plato's
Philosophy. The teacherstands with
an enormous rod in his half-rais.
ed hand, ready toilet it fall upon the
stripped shoulders of the unfortunate
scholar at the first mistake. Now
the average American boy would
have managed the master so sue cess
fully that not a blow would have
lined his back. recOllect the case OF
a little German, who would stay the
teachers hand with bride of sweet
things. While reciting, he would
keep one hand in his pocket and
the other on his word, whenever he
went wrong he would quietly place
confeotiOn on the teachers lap, and
go on with his lesson. He had been
scOlded and switched, and deter
, mined in his own way upon a change
of tactics, and his strategy was not
only skillful but successful, for re.
lieved of the fear of bodily pain, his
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