Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-11-20
Lovely Philosophy.
HOW A BOSTON GIRL JUST AZORES
THE CONCORD SCHOOL.

| AlVA thO otOVAlyA L3hEicy
A few days ago a Boston girl
who had been attending the
School of Philosophy at Concord
arrived in Brooklyn on visit to
a seminary chum. After canvasing
thoroughly the fun and gum-drops
that made up their education In
the seat of learning at which their
early scholastic efforts were made
the Brooklyn girl began TO inquire
into the nature of the Concord
eEtI rtainment.
And so you are taking lessons
In philosophy. How do you like
it?n
ooh it's perfectly lovely It's
about science, you know, and we
all just dote on science"
1T must be nice. What is it
about?"
Its about molecules as much
as anything else and molecules are
just too awfully nice for anything
| really enjoy, it's molecules.
TELL me about them, my dear.
What are molecules?"
ooh! molecules. They are little
wee things and 1t takes ever so
many of them. They are splendid
things! Do you know, there amt
anything but what's got molecules
in ii. And Mr.. Cook Is just as
sweet as he can be and Mr. Emer-
son, too. They explain everything
SO beautifully.'
Chow I'd like to go ,here!' said
the Brooklyn girl, enviously.
You'd enjoy 1t ever so much.
They teach protoplasm too, and II
there Is one thing perfectly heav-
emily Its protoplasm or molecules
"Tell me about lprotoplasm;
know | should adore it,"
deed you v ould. It's just too
sweet to live. You know it's about
how things get started, or some
thing of that kind. You ought to
hear Mr. Emerson tell about it. 1t
would stir your very soul. The
first time he explained about pro-
toplasm there wasn't dry eye In
the house. We named our hats
after him. This Is an Emerson
hat. You see the ribbon Is drawn
over the crown and caught with a
buckle and a bunch of flowers.
Then you turn up the side with q
spray OF forget-me-nots. Amt Ii
just TOO sweet? all the girls In the
school have them."
"How exquisitely lovely! Tell
me some more SCIENCE
"Oh! | almost forgot about diff
erentiation. am really and truly
positively in love with differentia-
ton. It's different from molecules
and protoplasm, but it's every bit
as nice. And Mr.. Cook! You should
hear him go on about II! / really
believe he's perfectly bound up In
It! This scarf is the Cook scarf. All
the girls wear them and we nam.
ed them after him jusl on account
of the ieterest he takes In differ
entiation."
"What is 1t anyway?r
"This Is null trimmed In Lang
uedoc lace"
81 don't mean that-the other.'
"Oh! differentiation! amt it
sweet? It's got something to do
with species, It's the way you tell
one hat from another, 80 you'll
know which is becoming. And we
learn all about ascidians, too. They
are the divinest things. / am alb
solutely enraptured with ascldians.
If l only had an ascidian OF my
own, / wouldn'task anything else
in the world"
"What do they look like, dear?
Did you ever see One?" asked the
Brooklyn gin, deeply interested.
sob, no; nobody even saw one
except Mr.. Cook and Mr.. Emerson,
but they are something like an
oyster with a reticule hung on its
belt"
"Do you learn. .anything.e ELSE be-
sides all these?"
"Oh, yes. We learn all about
common philosophy and logic and
those common things like meta
physics, but the girls don't care
anything about those. We are Just
in ecstacies over differentiation
molecules, and Mr.. Cook and pro-
toplasms and ascidians and Mr..
Emerson, and l really don't see
why theyl put Ia these vulgar
branches. If anybody besides Mr..
Cook and Mr.. Emerson had done
it we should have told him to his
face that he was too terribly, aw-
fully man.
And the Brooklyn girl went to
bed that night in the dumps be-
cause fortune had not vouchsafed
her the advantages enjoyed by her
friend, while the Boston girl
dreamed of seeing an ascidian chas-
ing a molecule over a differentia-
ted back fence with a club for tell