The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-11-18
"Oh molecules. They are little wee

"Oh molecules. They are little wee
things, and it takes ever SO many OF
them. They are splendid things! Do
you know, there amt anything but
what's got molecules in it. And MIR.
Cook is Just as sweet as he can be and
Mr.. Emerson, too. They explain every
thing so beautifully"
How'd like to go there " said the
Brooklyn girl, enviously.
"You'd enjoy it ever so much. They
teach protoplasm, too, and if there's one
thing perfectly heavenly it's protoplasm
or molecules"
"Tell me about protoplasm I know
should adore it."
"'Deed you would. It's just too
sweet to live. Yoa know it's about how
things get started, or something of that
kind. You ought to hear Mr.. Emerson
tell about it. 1t would stir your very
soul. The first time he explained about
protoplasm 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
a spray of forget-me-nots. Amt it just
too sweet All the girls in the school
have them"
"How exquisitely lovely! Tell me
some more science"
"Oh 1 almost forgot about differen-
tiation. 1 am really and truly positively
in love with differentiation. It's different
from molecules and protoplasm, but Is
every bit as nice. And Mr.. Cook ! You
should hear him go on about it !! I
really believe he's perfectly bound up in
it. This scarf is the Cook scarf. All
the girls wear them and we named them
after him just on account of the interest
he takes in differentiation"
"What is it, anyway"
"This is null trimmed with Langue-
doc lace"
81 don't mean that-that other"
ooh differentiation amt it sweet
It's got something to do with species.
It's the way you tell one hat from an
other, so you'll know which is becom-
ing. And we learn all about ascidians,
too. They are the divinest things. Pm
absolutely enraptured with ascidians.
If I only had an ascidian of my own,
wouldn't ask anything else in the world. u
"What do they look like, dear? Did
you ever see one ?" asked the Brooklyn
girl, deeply interested.
"Oh, no nobody ever saw one ex-
cept Mr.. Cook and Mr.. Emerson, but
they are something like an oyster with a
retcule hung on its belt. I think they
are just heavenly"
"Do you learn anything else beside
all these ?"
sob, yes. We learn all 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 ecstasies over differentla-
ton and molecules and Mr.. Cook and
protoplasms and ascidians, and Mr.. En-
erson and I really don't see why they
put in those vulgar branches. If any
body beside Mr.. Cook and Mr.. Emer-
son had done it we should have told him
to his face that he was terribly, awfully
mean"
And the Brooklyn girl went to bed
that night in the dumps because fortune
had not vouchsafed to her the advan-
tages enjoyed by her friend, while the
Boston girl dreamed of seeing an ascidi
an chasing molecule over a dfferen.
tiated back fence with club for telling
a protoplasm that his youngest sister
had SO many freckles on her nose thai
they made her cock-eyed.-Brooklyr
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