Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-02-28
A SCHOOLGIRLS DIARY.
Its Testimony of AequittaI and AeeT
Sations

Its Testimony Of AcquiItaI and Accu.
satiOn.
JAN. To-day / have the desire OF
my heart, a new diary. How good paps
is And with a lock and keyl Now ]
defy Sophia How many times 1 have
begun diary, and given it up because
nothing is inviolable without lock and
key, Sophia is 50 prying. Girls are,
sometimes, at bOarding-school, but she
is everywhere.
! have told my dear, sweet Maria
J Gray, my darlingest friend on earth,
that l am really going to keep this rec
ord every day the year through; but
she laughs at me, and says had better
make an offer of all my old beginnings
on its shrine.
Well, her desk is just across the aisle
from mine, although she rooms down
in the dormitOry, while Sophia and 1
have this little box of a room to our
selves, and so Maria will see whether 1
write in it or not. Diary, you are my
more intimate friend, even, than Maria
Gray. l shall perhaps conide to you
things | do not whisper to her. 1 in
tend 10 be faithful to you.
begin my confidence by noting that
it has showed all day, and l missed in
my geometry, as usual. 1 don't know
what Miss Palmer thinks gills are made
of. One proposition is enough for any
body to demonstrate. If she gave us
one, | should know one; that is, may
be | should. As she gives us three, I
don't know any of them, and don't
care-there! At least, 1 wouldn't care
If it were not for papa; suppose he
cares. Well, I'll 90 to studying. ga
line drawn from'-O dear me!
Jan. Missed again, and cried about
it, Papa'd have been so ashamed.
Sophy'l tell him, too, if don't mend.
Miss Palmer's perfectly horrid. Cleared
up.
Jan. s. Missed in my algebra to-day.
Got so nervous threw my slate across
the room. 1 think surds are absurds.
Jan. 4.-Failed in my examination in
botany. The idea of studying botany
by rote in the winter so as to be ready
for botanizing in the summer! Miss
Pslmer's Just like Perrotte, the milk
maid counting her chickens. Suppose
we shouldn't live till summeri
Jan. 5.-Hsve diphtheria. Don't
have to have geometry.
Jan. 6.-Miss Palmer came to see
me after church. She says that geom-
etry is the poetry of mathematics; that
its principles are those on which the
Creator made the universe; that when
! study my little book, am studying
the laws that rule the motions of the
stars.
Isn't she great now9 1 can't make q
universe, and never expect to, so what's
the use Of my learning hOwP But she
interested me. She has very pretty
nose, and a dimple-snd such a ringl
A great diamond solitaire! / wonder
how she affords it. Somebody must
have given it to her, Maria GRAY SAYS.
It looks like great drop Of light.
I 11suppose she is ever so old-.Ss
much as twenty-five. When. =, =, Ia. t,...
old as that, I shapst5S q5sb ~ y "a i,
rings. I'd give sFebeese Is E sEsoIn+sI n II
!. ! Unfit Is be eaten. Not only is it will
out value IS food, but it does harm b
disordering the digestive function
When the cheese manufacturers see +
it that our country stores keep nothin,
but the best quality of cheese, and sci
it at a reasonable margin, they will fin
the popular appreciation of this articl
of diet to increase very rapidly, anC
what is of more importance to then
the amount consumed will increase i
the same prOportion.-RUrGL Me-
Yorker.