American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-11-06
"PerfectIy Lovely Philosophy.
A few days ago Boston girl who h;

A few DAYS ago n boston Gtri who had
been attending the School of,Philosophy
at Concord arrived in Broo klyn on a
visit to Il seminary chum- After can
vassing thoroughly the fun and gum
drops that made up their education in
the seat OF learning at which their early
scholastic efforts were made, the Brook
Iyn Girl began to inquire into the nature
of the Concord entertainments
"And so you are taking lessons in
philosophy. How do you lif1e itp''
..Ohi it's perfectly lovely. It's about
science, YOU know, and we all just dote
on science"
cit must be nice. What is it aboutp'
"Its about molecules as much as
anything else, and molecules are just
too awfully nice for anything. If there's
anything really enjoy. it's molecules"
.'Tell me about them, my dear.
What are molecules?"
ooh! 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, and
MIR. Emerson, too. They explain ev-
erything so beautifully"
"How I'd like to go there?' said the
Brooklyn girl. enviously-
You enjoy it ever SO much. They
teach protoplasm, too. and if there is
one thing perfectly heavenly it's proto-
plasm or molecules.
"Tell me about prosoNasm. know
should adore it
st'Deed you would. It's just toe
sweet to live. You know it's about how
things get started, or something of that
kind. You ought to hear MIR. Emerson
tell about it. It would stir your very
| soul. The first time he explained about
protopIasm there wasn't n 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 buckle and bunch
of flowers. Then you turn up the side
with a spray of ferget-me-net'. Ain
it Just too sweetP All the glrIs IN the
school have them."
"How exquisitely lovely. Ieu me
| some more science"
"Oh. / almost forgot about differen-
tiation. l am really and truly positive
| ly in love with differentiation. Its
different from molecules and proto
plasms, but it's every bit as nice. And
| MIR. Cook! You should hear him go or
about it! really believe he's perfect,
ly bound up in it. This scarf is the
Cook scarf, All the girls wear them
| md we named them after him just OF
account of tho interest he takes in diff
| ferentiation.
..What is it, anyway"
ssThis is null trimmed with Langue-
| doc lace
81 don't mean that that other"
"Oh! 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. I'm
absolutely enraptured with asciGians
If only had an ascidian of my own.
wouldn't ask anything else in the
world"
"What do they look like. dear? ] II
Won ever see one?' asked the Bror xiv
girl, deeply interested.
..Oh, no; nobody ever saw one eS
cept Mr.. Cook and Mr.. Emerson, bu
they are something like. an oyster wit
retTcule hung on it., belt. think the
are just heavenly"
'-Do you learn anything else beside
/ all these?''
"Qh, yes. We learn oil about com
mon philosophy and logic, and thos
common things like metaphysics. bu
Tho girls don't care anything abou
those. We are just in ecstacies owe
differentiation and molecules, and Mr.
Cook, and protoplasms and ascidians
and Mr.. Emerson, and l really don
see why they put in those vulga
branches. If anybody besides Mr.. Cool
and Mr.. Emerson had done it we shout,
have told him to his face that he wa
too terribly, awfully mean"
And the Brooklyn girl went to be,
that night in the dumps because forum
had not vouchsafed her the advantage
enjoyed by her friend, while the Boston
girl dreamed of seeing an ascidial
; chasing a molecule over differentiated
back fence with club for telling a pro
toplasm that his youngest sister had s.
many freckles on her nose that the
made her cross-eysed.- Brooklyn Eagle