Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-23
HUMOR OF THE PRESS.
BOSTON Girl Who Thought PhII0-
sophy Perfectly Charming.
RrONE1vn Eaola

IBrooElyn Eagle.
a rev days ago Boston girl who had haeY
attending The School OF Philosophy az Concord
arrived Ia Brooklyn on visit TO q seminary
En9m- aver canvassing thoroughly the fuC
s ana gun crops that made up their education III
lne sea- u learning at which their early
scholastlc EFFORTS were made. the Brooklyn gil
began to Inquire into the nature OF the Concord
e0tert2'uE.tnt.
-" AnG so YOU are taking lessons In philosophy
bow Go you Ike it?'
"Oh, It's perfectly lovely It's about science
you kno@. and we all Just dote on science"
at must be nice. What is it about?'
TITS about molecules as much as anything
else, ana molecules are Just TOO awfully nice
Ior anytbirg. II there's anything L really en-
Joy, it's molecules"
''Tell me about them. my dear. What are
molecules?"
..Oh, molecules. They are little wee things.
and II takes ever so many OF them. They are
splendid thingsi Do you know there amt any,
thing but what's got molecules IN 1t. And Mr..
Cook is Just as sweet "a he can be, and Mr..
beautifully"
How ia Ike to go there" said the Brooklyn
YOU'D enjoy 1t ever so much. They teach
protoplasm 100; and, IL there IS one thing per-
: Iectly heavenly, it's pr0topiasm. / really don't
culeSn
TEL me about protoplasn- know should
adore IT.
"D5ed you would. It's Just too sweet to live
You know IL about how things get started. or
something OF that kind. YoI ought TO hear
Mr.. Emerson tell about It. IL would stir your
%ery soul the first time he explained proto-
plaSn III II wasn't dr. eye IN tue house. We
named oCr bats after him. This IS an Emerson
hat. IOu see the ribbon Is drawn over the
crown, SID caught with a buckle and a bunch
or flowers. Then you turn up the side with
spray OF fOrget-me-nots. Ain't iC just too sweet?
AL the gals in the school have them
'HOw eNqaiSitely lovely, Tel me some more
Science"
"Oh, almost forgot about differentiation. l
am really and truly positively ia love with
arY1A
and pTotnnasnS but it's every bit as nice. And
Mr.. Coos. YOp should hear him go on ABOUT it,
i really relieve he is perfectly bound up In it.
This scarf IS the Cook scarf All the girls wear
them, and we named them after hun Just on
account Of the interest he tahcs in dinerentia-
tion."
'What IS II. anyway
"This IS null, trimmed with Languedoc
al don't mean that-that other"
"Ot differentiation amt it sweet? It's got
Something TO do with species. It's the way you
tell one La from another, 50 you'll know which
Is becoming. And we learn all about a5cidian5,
too. Tuey are the divineSt things. I'm abSO-
lutely rdptured with aScidIans. If only had
an asciGiah OF my own, wouldn't ask anything
else IN The world"
"What do they look like, delr? Did you
ever see cEe?' asked the Brooklyn girl, deeply
Interested
"Oh. no; nobody ever saw one except Mr..
Cook and Mr.. Emerson; but they are something
like an oyster with reticu!e hung on It's belt.
think they are Just heavenly"
"Do you learn anything else besides all
these -
"Oh. YES. We learn all about common philos-
ophy AMI logic. aud those comn0n things ike
metaphy sics but the girls don't care anything
about those. We are Just In ecStlSieS over dir
ferentiation and molecules. and Mr.. Cook, and
protopla IN and aScidianS, and Mr.. Emerson
and | really don't see why they put in those
vulgar branches IL anybody besides Mr.. Cook
and Mr.. Emerson had done Il We should have
told him % his face that he was TOO terribly,
, awfully mean"
And the Brooklyn girl went to bed that night
III the dumps because fortune had not yOuch-
safed her the advantages enjoyed by her friend.
while Tie Boston girl dreamed OF seeing an as
cfdtan chaSiLg mOlecule Over differentiated
back tnCe with a club for telling pT0tooIaSm
that HIS Youngest sister had SO rn1ny fire ;kleS
On her nose that they made her co keyed.