Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-12-03
yus SugeIes Yerald.
4 BpssoA Girls Instructive Description Of
Science.

nAO Oo00 AtCeu0lnK tu0 0cuuOi Vi
Philosophy ct Concord, arrived in
Brooklyn on . visit to q seminary
ehum. After discussing thorough
~ the fun and gum drops that
made mp their education in the
noat Of learning at which their
Early scholastic efforts were made,
the Brooklyn girl began to inquire
into the nature Of the Concord en-
tortainment.
ssAnd 80 you are taking lessons
50 philosophy. How do you like
it?n
"Ohl It's perfectly lovely. It's
about science, you know. and we
I'll just dote on SCIENCE
ut must be nice. What Is 1t
about?n
s'It's about molecules as much a.
anything else, and molecules are
lust too awfully nice for anything.
lt there's anything I really enjoy
Il 10 molecules"
"Tell me about them, my dear.
What are molecules ?"
"Oh! moleculesl They are lit.
tic 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
oweot as he can be, and Mr.. Emsr-
son too. They explain everything
% beautifully."
"How I'd like to 60 there" said
tho Brooklyn girl enviously.
Vnr.tA ~nf1u avvop v,ar9ah
They teach protoplasm. too, and II
there's one thing perfectly heaven.
~, it's protoplasm. l really don't
know which I like best, protoplasm
or molecules."
t" Tell me about protoplasm. I
know I should adore it.n
"'Desd you would. It's just too
sweet to live. You know it's about
how things got started, or some
thing Of that kind. You ought to
hear Mr.. Emerson tell about 1t. It
would stir your very soul. The
1Ent time he explained about pro-
teplasm there wasn't dry eye In
the house. We named our hats
after him. This Is an Emerson hat.
You sec the ribbon 10 drawn over
the crown and caught with buck
Il and bunch of flowers. Then
you turn up the side with q spray
Of forget Amt it just
too sWeet?" All the girls In the
schools have them"
ssHow exquisitely lovelyl Tell
me some more SCIENCE"
"Ohl almost forget about dif.
fsrsntiation. I am really and
truly positively in love with differ
ontiation. It's different from mo.
lecules and protoplasm, but it's
every bit a. nice. And Mr.. Cook!
you should hear him 90 on about
It'll I really believe he II perfectly
bound up In 1t. This scarf is the
Cook scarf. All the girls wear
them, and we named them after
him lust on account of the interest
be takes In differentiation"
"What Is it, any wsyW
"This 10 null trimmed with
LAnguedoc lace"-
II don't mean thAt-that other"
"Oh! differentiation? amt 1t
sweet? It's got something to do
with species. It's the way you
tell one hat from another, 80 you
will know which 10 becoming. And
We learn all about ascidians, too.
They are the divinest things! I'm
absolutely enraptured with ascid-
tAns. II only had an sscidian OF
my own wouldn't ask anything
else In the world.n
ssWhAt do they look like, dear?
Did you ever see onef" asked the
Brooklyn girl, deeply interested.
ssOhl no; nobody ever saw one
except Mr.. Cook and Mr.. Emerson,
but they are something like an
oyster with reticule hung on its
belt. 1 think they are just heav-
snly.n
s'Do you learn anything else be-
sides all these?'
"OhI yes. We learn about COM
mon philosophy aud logic, and
those common things like metaphy-
sics; but the girls don't care any
thing about those. We are just IN
ecstacies over determinations and
molecules, and Mr.. Cook and pro-
sOpIasms, and ascidians and Mr..
Emerson, and really don't see why
they put in those vulgar branches.
II anybody besides MIR. Cook and
Mr.. Emert on had done it, we should
have told him TO his face that he
Was to0 terrible 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,
while the Boston girl dreamed OF
seeing an ascidian chasing MOLE
Guile over differentiated back fence
with club. for telling q protop-
lasm that his youngest sister had
10 many freckles on her nose that
they made her squint-eyed.-
Brooklyn Argue.