The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-17
BOSTON CULTURE.


This section as quoted, makes it
sviden: that the promotion OF
grammatical knowledge is not
One OF iss intentions. Such ad'
vsnces have been made in literature
and science by the members
that documentary instruction of that
kind is considered appropriate only
to the sphere of infant schools. It ia
seldom that men are admitted to a
participation in their culture and
social intercourse. But at one of the
meetings lately. James freeman
Clarke, Oliver Wendell Holmes and
other literary persons (literary We
mean, considering their eek were
favored with invitationst to attend. and
to make speeches complimentary to
their hosts. We do not know whom
among them to accuse OF having taken
that light which was intended to have
been hidden under a bnshsl, and
brought it out to shine upon the world.
Thus the story runs: A paper con-
tributed by young unmarried lady
was the piece de resistance. We do
net usually write in French, but in
this case it is excusable. We do not
mean that any Of the socie!y resisted
the piecs that the writer presented
for their enjoyment. They did not.
They could not. It was "prehistoric
man." They all have their own ideas
of what posthistorio man is-the man
OF the present time, a creature of i'm
projections from which be is to be re-
deemed by their own blessed iDfu.
ence-s wild plant to be pruned by
culture and domeaticated by social
Otherwise they take
DO especial interest in him.
Was prehistoric man any bester?I
That was what they desired to kooW. |
Was he better. not only than post
historic man, but Wss be better than |
historic man? Was there any pre-
woman whose Establishments
ne could not resist, or Was he "a man
TOR a. that even if she endeavored to
empt him with forbidden fruit? In
short. was prehistoric man his own
master? II he was, they would be
slad that they were not prehistoric
women. 1t grieyes us to say
nat on this most import
Int point they obtaineds no
Information. The young lady her
ielf Was in doubt whether prehistoric
nan was batbybius or if he owed
lis creation to agamogenesis, bat che
ather inclined to the belief that ne
from protoplasm evolved
rom nebulous atmosphere, the
conditions OF which were such that
park of electricity would generate
,uinal life. As the reading was in
ireek, language recently become
'opulsr in Boston, and our font OF
ypes does not include the Greek
We are unable to present
report that would do justice to
/. We may add, however. that
was convincing to the audience SO
ar as it related 80 the origin OF pre-
istoric man, bat an unsatiDfactory
eply to the chief question of interest
Whist was prehistoric man as 2
omestic animal?"
The secretary afterwards read
q essay On mathematics. Twill !
on believe it," asked the
resident triumphantly, when the
esding was concluded, 1.-THE woman
Tho wrote this is the mother Of twelve
hildren under four years of age; lex.
use me, I mean four children under
welve, and she miIks twenty cows
very dsyI" Thereupon an unsophis-
icated member, recently admitted,
entured the remark: "If she hadn't
7ritten it she might have found time
D milk thirty cows"
"You are mistaken, my DEAR"
eplied an elderly lady glanoing mildly
yer her spectacles, cher msthemat-
cal knowledge gave her a precision
o manipulating the vaccine udders
hat she would not otherwise have
cquired."
The youthful critic stood abashed,
cd the club adjourned after the reci-
alton OF q poem by DR.. Hslmes.
A SHoSTr time soO it Wsa announced