San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-12-09
Scientific Girls.

Scientno 0lrlns
A few days ago q Boston girl, who
had been attending the school Of
Philosophy at Concord, arrived in
Brooklyn on q visit to seminary
chum. After canvassing thoroughly
the fun and gum drops that made up
their education in the seat Of learn.
ing at which their early scholastic
efforts were made, the Brooklyn girl
began TO inquire the nature Of the
Concord entertainment i,a ,r ,,,,r
sand no you are taking lessons in
philosophy. How do you like itf
"Oh! It's perfectly lovely. Its
about science, you know, and We al
Just dote on science os i.nl lfl.
ut must be nice. What is i
abouti" .... n,
"It's about molecules an much as
anything else, and molecules are just
too awfully nice for anything. II
there's anything I really enjoy its
molecules. 49, si,.or,... n
Tell me about them, my dear.
What are molec,iless" =.
"Oh! molecules! They are little
wee things and it takes ever 20
many Of them. They are splendid
things. Do you know there amt
anything but what's got molecules in
it. And Mr.. Cook is just as sweet az
he can be, and Mr.. Emerson too.
They explain everything 30 beauti-
fully" lasa..
"How I'd like to go there" said
the Brooklyn girl enviously.
"Youd enjoy it ever 80 much.
They teach protoplasms, too, and i
there is one thing perfectly heavenly
Its protoplasm. I really don't know
which I like best protoplasm OF
molecules.
"Tell me about protoplasm.
know I should adore it. aa'far8 1
"'Deed you would. It's just too
sweet to live. You know it's about
how things get started, or something
of that kind. You ought to hear
Mr.. Emerson tell about it. It would
stir your very soul. The first time
he explained about protoplasm there
wasn't dry eye in the hourse. We
named our hats after him. This ID
an Emerson hat. You see the rib
bon is down over the crown and
caught with o buckle and o bunch Of
flowers. Then you turn up the sides
with spray Of forgetme nots. Amt
it just too SWEET All the girls in the
school have them" ~ q 't 't'tsa
"How exquisitely lovely! Tell me
some more science" ..l9f
"Ohl Differentiation! Amt il
sweetf 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
oil about ascidians, too They are
the divine thingsl I'm absolutely
enraptured with ascidians. If I only
had an ascidian Of my own! ]
wouldn't ask anything else in the
world" 81 ASH .lg W /.
aWhat do they look like, deari
Did you ever see onef 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 a riticule hung on its
belt. I think they are just heavenly"
"Do you learn anything else, be-
sides 2"
"Oh, I almost forgot about differ
entiation. I am really and truly
positively in love with differentia-
ton. It's different from molecules
and protoplasm, but its every bit as
nice. And Mr.. Cook. I really be-
lieye he is bound up in il. This
scarf is the Cook scarf. All the girls
wear them, and we named them after
him on account OF the interest he
took in differentiation H
"What is it anyway" . 5
"This is null trimmed with Ian
guedoc lace ,oe.
II don't mean that-that other
"Oh! yes. We learn about COM
mon philosophy and logic, and those
common things like metaphysics, but
the girls don't care anything about
those. We are just in ecstssies
over differentiations and molecules,
and Mr.. Cook and protoplasms, and
ascidians and Mr.. Emerson, and l
really don't see why they put in
those vulgar branches. II anybody
beside Mr.. Cook and Mr.. Emerson
had done it, we would have told him
TO his face that he was too terribly
awfully mean" And the Brooklyn
girl went to bed that night in the
dumps, because fortune bad not
vouchsafed her the advantages en-
ioyed by her friend-Brooklyn
Eagle.