The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1880-11-17
Lovely Philosophy.

-
A few days ago a Boston girl who had
been attending School Of Philosophy at Con.
cord arrived in Brooklyn, says The Eagle, on
a visit to q seminary chum. After canvass
ing thoroughly the fun and gum-drops that
made up their education in the seatof learning
at which their early scholastic efforts were
made, the Brooklyn girl began to inquire
into the nature of the Concord entertainment.
"And SO you are taking lessons in philoso-
ply. How do you like it,"
''Oh! it's perfectly lovely. It's about
science, you know, and we al just dote on
science"
1T rust be nice. What is it about ?"o
'sIts abont molecules as much as anything
else, and molecules are just too awfullv nice
for anything. Il there's anything I really
enjoy, it's molecules.
stTe!l me about them, my dear. What are
molecules?"
cob! molecules. They are little wee
things and takes every 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
everything SO beautifully
elbow I'd like to go there!!" said the Brook
lyn girl, obviously.
"You'd enjoy It ever SO much. They
teach %protoplasm, too, and if there is one
thing perfectly heavenly its protoplasm or
molecules"
"Tell me about %protoplasm / know l
should adore it."
s'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.
1t would stir your very soul. The first
time he explained about p%rotoplasm there
wasn't a dry eye in the house. We named
our hats after him. This an Emerson hat.
You see the ribbon is drawn over the crown
and caught with a buckle and q bunch of
flowers. Then you turn up the side with a
spray Of forget-me-nots. Amt it just too
sweet? All the girls il school have them"
elbow exquisitely lovely! Tell me some
more science"
ooh! I almost forgot about differentiation.
| am really and truly positively in love with
differentiation. It's different from molecules
and %protoplastn, but it's every bit as nice.
And Mr.. Cook! You should hear him 60 on
about it; [ really believe he's perfectly bound
| Up ID il, This scarf is the Cook scarf. Allthe
girls wear them, and We named them after
him jast On account of the interest he takes
in differentiation
ssWhat is it, anyway
ssThis is null trimmed il Languedoc
lace"
II JOINT mean that-the other
sob! differentiation? Amt it sweet? It's
got something to do with species. IT'S the
way you tell one hat from another, SO youth
know which is becoming. And we learn all
about ascidians, too. They are The aiviuest
things. I an absolutely enraptured with
ascidians. IF I only had an asciaian Of my
own, I wouldn't ask anything else in the
world
aWhat do they look ike, dear? Did you
ever see one?' asked the Brooklyn girl, deep
" interested.
"Oh, no., nobody ever saw one except Mr..
Cook and Mr.. Emerson, but they are some
thing like an oyster with a ~reticule hung on
its belt
aDo you learn anything else besides all
these?'.
"Oh, yes. We learn all about common
philosophy and logic and those common
things like metaphysics, but the girls dom
care anything about those. We are just in
ecstacies over differentiation and molecules,
and Mr.. Cook and %protoplasms and ascidians
and Mr.. Emerson, and I really don't see why
they put in these vulgar branches. IF any
body besides Mr.. Cook and Mr.. Emerson
had done it we should have told him to his
face that he was too terribly, aWfully mean
And the Brooklyn girl Wentto bed that night
in the dumps because fortune had not vouch-
safed her the advantages enjoyed by her
friend, while the Boston girl dreamed Of see
ing IN ascidian chasing d 1nolecule over 8
differentiated back fence with aclub for tell.
ing q p%rotop.asm that bis youngest sister had
50 many freckIgs On her nose that they made
/ eTcockeyed.