The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-11-10
Awfuliy Lovely Philosophy.
brooklyn Eagle.I

few days ago a Boston girl, who had
been attending the School of Philosophy at
Concord, arrived in Brooklyn on a visit to q
seminary chum. After canvassing thorough
ly the fun and gum drops that made up
their education in the seat of learning at
which their early scholastic efforts were
made, the Brooklyn girl began TO inquire
the nature of the Concord entertainment.
"And so YOU are taking lessons in philo-
sophy. How do you like it?'
''Oh! It's perfectly lovely. It's about
science, you know, and we all just dote on
science"
'Itmust be nice. What is il aboutT'
Its about molecules as much as any
thing else, and moleculesare just too oawfully
nice for anything If there's anything L
really enjoy it's molecules"
Tell me about them, my dear. What are
molecules?"
"Oh! molecules! They are little wee
things, and it tlkes ever so maEy of them.
They are splendid things. Do you know,
there amt anything but what's got mole
culSs-in it And Mr. Cook is Just as sweet
as he can be, and Mr.. Emerson too. They
explain everything so beautifully
How I'd like to go there" said the
Brooklyn girl enviously.
You'd enjoy it ever so much. They
teach protoplasm, too, and if there is one
thing perfectly heavenly it's protoplasm. |
really don't know when ike DeSt pro-
toplasm or molecules"
Tell me about protOplasm. | know
should adore it,"
"'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 talk 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
:. =. 1,e
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 forget-me- e-nots. Amt it just too
sweet? All the girls in the school have
them"
Flow exquisitely lovely Tell me some
more science"
|. ''Ohi Ialmost forgot about difierentia-
ton. | am really and truly positively in
love with differentiation. It's differentfrom
molecules and protoplasm, but it's every bit
as nice. And Mr.. Cook You should hear
him 90 on about it, | 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 Langucdoc
lace"
II don't mean that-that other"
s'Ohl 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 ascidians, too. They are tho
divinest thingsl I'm absolutely enraptured
with ascdians. If / only had an ascidian
of my own / wouldn't ask anything else
in the world"
'.What do they look like, dear? Did you
ever see one?n asked the Brooklyn girl,
deeply interested. oai oi- ras
''Ohl no; nobody lever saw one except
Mr. Cook and Mr.. Emerson, but they are
something like an oyster with reticule
hung on is belt / think they are just
heavenly"
| '-Do YOU learn anything else, besidesg'
'sOa! yes We learn about common phil
osophy and logic, and those common things
like metaphysics; but the girls don't care
anything about these. We are just in ecsta-
sizes over differentiations and molecules, and
Mr.. Cook and protoplasms, and ascidians
and Mr. Emerson, and / really don't see
why they put in those vulgar branches II
anybody besides Mr.. Cook and Mr.. Emerson
had done 1t, we should have told h i'm 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 youchsafed her the advantages enjoyed
by her friends. -seae-.r ~