Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-12
Nature and Philosophy.
Brooklyn Eagle.


| A few days ago Boston girl, who
had been attending the School of
Philosophy at Concord, arrived in
Brooklyn on 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 into the nature of
the Concord institution.
"And so you are taking lessons
in philosophy. How do you like it?'
"Oh! 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
" It's about molecules as much as
anything elee, and the molecules are
just too awfully nice for anything.
If there's anything I really enjoy it's
molecules.
"Tell me about them, my dear.
What are molecules2"
"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 Mr.. Cook is just as sweet
as he can be, ard Mr.. Emerson, too.
They explain everything so beautiful
Iy."
How I'd like to 60 there!" said
the Brooklyn girl enviously.
You'd enjoy it over SO much.
They teach protoplasm, too, and if
there is one thing perfectly heaven
ly it's protoplasm. I really don't
know which I like best, portoplasin
or molecules.
"Tell me about protoplasm. /
know I should adore it.
"'Deel you would. It's Just to
sweet to live. You know it's about
how things get started, or something
of that kind. You ought to hear
Mr.. Emerson talk; it would stir your
very soul. The first time he ex-
planned about protoplasm there
wasn't q dry eve in the hRne26 :
itn1m5d- our nass n4y9l nlllIs ~ ~ a
Emerson hat. You see ribbon is
drawn over the crown and caught
with a buckle and bunch OF fow-
ers. Then you turn up the side with
q spray of forget-me nots. Amt it
teo sweet? All the girls in the
school have them"
| "How exquisitely lovely! Tell
me some more science"
"Oh! / almost forgot about differ
entiation. 1 am really and truly
positively in love with differentia-
ton. It's different from molecules
and protoplasm, but it's every bit as
nice. Aud Mr.. Cook! You should
hear him 60 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 in
terest he takes in differentiation"
"What is it, any way ?"
" This is null trimmed with Lam
guedoc Lace"
| ~ don't mean that-that other.
cob! differentiation amt it
sweet? It's got something to do
with species. It's the way you tell
one hat from another, SO you'll know
which is becoming. And we learn
all about acidians, too. They are
the divinest things! I'm absolutely
enraptured with ascidians. II I only
had IN ascidian Of my own! I would
not ask anything else in the world.
| "What do they look like, dear ?
Did you ever see one ?" asked the
Brooklyn girl, deeply interested.
"Oh! no; nobody ever saw one
except Mr.. Cook and Mr.. Emerson.
but they are something like an oys-
ter with a reticule hung on its belt.
think thoy are just heavenly"
"Do you learn. anything else be-
sides ?"
| sob! 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 ecsta-
sizes over differentiations and mole
cules, and Mr.. Cook and prstop-
lasms, and ascidians and Mr.. Emer-
son, and I really don't ace why they
put in those vulgar branches. II
anybody beside 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 went to bed
that night in the dumps. because
fortune had not vouchsafed her the
advantages enjoyed by her friend.
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