The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-18
A Perfectly Lovely Philosophy.

A few days ago aBoston girl who had
been attending the School of Philosophy
at Concord arrived in Brooklyn on q
visit 10 a seminary chum. After can-
wasting 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
lyn girl began to inquire into the nature
of the Concord entertainment,
"And 81 you / taking lessons in
philosophy. How do you like itP"
.1Oh! it's perfectly lovely. It's about
science, you know. and we all just dote
on SCIENCE
ut must be nice, What is it aboutP"
"lt's about molecules rs much as any
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 m~oleculesP"
40. molecules. They are little weo
things, and it takes ever SO many of
them, They are splendid things! Do
you know, there isn't anything but
what's got molecules in itP And Mr..
Cook Is just as sweet as he can be, and
Mr.. Emerson, too. They explained
everything so beautifully"
How I'd like to go thcreg' said the
Brooklyn girl, enviously.
you'd enjoy it ever SO much. They
teach protoplasm, too. and if there is
n thing perfectly heavenly it's proto-
plasm. j really don't know which l
like best, protoplasm or molecules"
Tell me about protoplasm. l know
] should adore it."
"'Deed you would. It's justt 90 sweet
to live. You know it's about how things
get started, or some thing Of that kind.
You ought to hear Mr. Emerson tel.
about it. 1t would stir your very soul.
The first time he explained about proto-
plasm there wasn't a dry eye in the
house. We named our hats after him.
This is an Emerson hat. You see tho
ribbon is drawn over the crown and
caught with a buckle and a bunch oil
flowers. Then you turn up tho side with
a spray of forget-me-nots. Amt IL lust
too sweet? All the girls in the school
have them"
And Mr.. Cook! You should hear him
go on. This scarf is the Cook scarf.
All the girls wear them, and we named
them after him just on account of this
interest he takes in differentiation"
What is it anyway"
This is null trimmed with Lanque-
doc lace
II don't mean that-that other"
"Oh! differentiation! amt 1t SWEET
It's got something to do with species
And We learn all about ascidians, too.
I'm absolutely enraptured with as
cidians. If l only had an ascidian OF
my own, l wouldn't ask anything else
in the world.n
what do they look like, dear? Did
You ever see oneP' asked the Brooklyn
girl, deeply interested.
'.Oh, no, nobody ever saw one ox-
cept Mr., Cook and Mr.. Emerson, but
they are something like an oyster with
a retilcule hung on its belt, l thini
they are just heavenly"
d you learn anything else besides
all theseP"
.'Oh, yes. Well we learn all aboc:
common philosophy and logic, and
those common things like metaphysical
but the girls don't care anything abont
those. We are just in e~cstaeies over
differentiation and molecules, and Mr..
Cook. and protoplasms and ascidians,
and Mr.. Emerson, and I really don't
see why they put in those vulgar
branches. II anybody beside Mr.. Cocs
and Mr.. Emerson had done it we should
have told him to his face that he was
too horribly, 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 tho Boston
girl dreamed OF seeing IN ascidian ohas-
ing a moleculo over a differentiated
back fence with a club, for telling .
protoplasm that his youngest sister had
so many freckles on here nose that they
made hor cock-eYed.