Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-15

Normal Regulations Reviowod In verse anu
Prose.
For the IHTELLIGExcER.
rnE OLD FARMERS REVIEW OF TIE
TIMES.
As I've set here tonight. old wife, I've been
thinkin'.
while watchin' you busy i noddin' and
winkin',
Aud a-hearin' the rain on the winder.paue
patter,
A. II out in the dark there was something the
matter.
And the rain wanted help and would like mc
to giveit.
That lite Is trouble and man too weak to live
II.
I've been thinkin' our country has walked on
OF the level,
And goin' down grade pretty fast to the devil
With a weed like Malone in virginny soil
CROWN,
A vile weed that our great men are trainin'
and hoein';
" it'll Conklin', the good, kickin' up sich Il
racket,
And wantin' to sting, like Il mad yallcr jacket !:
With the Bulls 4" and the "liogs" runnin'
wild in OuI county,
Can God be expected 10 continue His bounty :
1 tell you. Old wife. there, Il cut worm Il
lurkih
4, the root OF the rla.,i ami it's workin' and
workin'.
AMI il they don't so to huniin pretty soon.
now Just mind il,
Twill have eaten too much aiorr they can
ind it.
And up there where our teachers load on all
their schoolin'
(And 10 carry them loads won't admit Of much
foolinD.
Like a passcl OF dogs with IL bone they are
snarlih';
Aud our commonwealth shakes with the noise
of their Iuar'lin';
And l fear till they get every trouble thcr"
Our business Will lansuish from Our duties all
slighted.
I'm afraid that clover will be nipt In the
blossom,
And that hired boy scamp bc a,playin' the
possum;
Our tobacco won't grow, you'll have sares in
your chickens,
While every thing, every thing goes 10 I'll.
dickens!
We've daughter up there ami arc prejudice.
may he,
But still can't think that our Bel, is a baby
a-sayin',
"Oh, wish tnat she was. on my knee again
playinr'
But she's grown most a woman, and our eyes
can't deny 1t,
So our longin's and wishes msllt rs well be
kept quiet.
But the wise DIR. Brooks thinks his model OF
schools
Aud our Bell-shoull be governed with in
fantile rules,
mind thick
For the Doctor, you know, made the big
So, let's pray that before We are ruined for
solution he'll hnd. for the Doctor is clever.
w. F. NJ.
lsilliuozing u Boomerang.
West Chester Republican.
The bulldOzing principle is boomerang
whether handled by politician or an cdu
Gator.
There's the Kub.
Wilkesblrre Union Leader.
The mistake made by the faculty at
Millersville is in the depreciation of their
pupils virtues.
Sounding Israss
Reading News.
Brass bands and noisy mob arc not
good arguments, and rebellion against
constituted authority does not commend
itself unless it succeeds.
The Trouble.
Times,
The trouble proceeds to a great extent.
from the old practice of regarding boys
and girls as wild creatures who cannot be
admitted to each others society without
dangerous results.
Faternal Advice.
Reading Eagle.
MillerSville normal school teachers
should endeavOr to control their passions
and set good example to their pupils.
Any other course will bring them and
their school deservedly into contempt.
Touchwood aud Flintiness.
Philadelphia Record.
There is too much tOuchwOOd in the
composition OF the professors and too much
flintiness among the youth. Hence sparks,
smoke, fire, fuss and feathers. The boys
should be spanked and tho professors
dieted.
Argument Against Co. Education.
Philadelphia Press.
If such regulations are required where
the two sexes are brought together in
schools they should be given different es-
tablishments entirely. Separation by i'm
aginary lines and arbitrary rules under
such circumstances eau only be maintained
by a continual and vexatiOus exercise of
authority.
Undue Hardness.
North Wales Reporter.
Considering that the pupils at Millers.
vile arc all grown men and women. who
were respectable members Of society at
home, we think DIR. Brooks and his as.
sociatcS have shown undue harshness in
the rules made for their government, and
a needless system Of surveillance not
found necessary at other institutions,
where both sexes Mingle in study and
recitation.
The solution.
NOrristown Register.
It ought not to be left to the arbitrary
pleasure of any one or any set Of teachers
to make the rules by which these schools
are governed. General rules should be
adopted for all the normal schools in the
state and those rules consistently but res
Oiutcly enforced. The young man or
young woman who is not willing to abide
by such regulations should not enter as a
pupil.
Childish Students.
Scranton Republican.
They cannot expect a rreat educa tion.l