National Republican., 1882-12-26
TIE AMERICAN GIRL.
The Way Studies are Crowded upon the
Misses in the Public Schools.

| NCtU OfH journal.
She ran up against an iron railing and
looked scared.
"Ill call policeman" she said, pantngly,
elf you insult me-"
She was only H. and her pretty, thin face,
with spot of carnation in each check and
her little faxen curs hanging over her pale
forehead as if trying TO look into her blue
eyes. gave her the adolcscent aspect of a
French doll. She had bundle of books that
must have weighed thirty pounds.
But / don't want to insult you, my dear"
said the reporter Il only want to interview
you"
Interview me-" she exclaimed. ooh.
don't, please. | haven't done anything Go
and see pa"
"Oh, nonsense" said the reporter, "We've
been interviewing pa, for years He doesn't
know anything about it. We've wasted our
time interviewing school superintendents and
principles and all the other people who don't
know anything about it. Now we're going to
interview you. Don't your head achcY"
"Minc? MOI" with little astonishment).
"Not when you have got to get all those
books into it!"
ooh, they don't make my head ache it's
my arms!"
'Ah! / sec. You carry them in your arms,
not on your head
Here the reporter made a mental cxclama-
ton. Wonderful feminine instinct, to carry
the hest things of life in its arms, and not in
its head
"Wll you let me read the titles of the
hooks -"
Yes, if you will strap them up again."
Trigonometry! DO you study that?"
ooh, yes"
"And survcying?'
She nodded her head affirmatvely-
"And navigation"
Another nod.
"Will you excuse me while swear little %
"Well, turn your head away
Reporter, Thunder and Mars! (sotto voce. }
that's French. Do you study FrCnch?'
ooh, I'm in the French and German
classes"
"You don't say so! But you haven't got
into the Italian and Portuguese ClasscsW
Il don't think there are any Portuguese,
sir"
"Wcll, if there had been, you'd have got
into them wouldn't you?'
YES, sir; hope so.
" Physiology; do you study that?
g little; I've only just commenced that.
After fuXions we talk half an hour at biology
and then go to applied mechanics and teleg-
raphy. Pm going to commence organic chem
iStry on Monday, after my music, but ma
thinks it will interfere with my painting in
OIL"
az should think it would. Don't you ever
sleep or play?"
ooh, yes, ! play the whole of Czerney S
exercises for the piano every morning and |
am learning the overture to Tristan and
Isolde. | used to go to sleep in the class
room, but 1t was awful mean, and | got over
il. Miss -, our principal says if we knew
what the mission of woman is I'M the nine
tccnth century, we will not be caught nap
ping. Besides, if | went to sleep wouldn't
pass"
Pass WHAT"
1.-The examination
" But you might pass some other things"
"What other things?"
"Why, vertigo, nervous exhaustion, prema-
ture decline.'
"Oh, don't study those yet"
No, | see you don't"
Lot me go now, please"
Wait II moment | want to ask you one
other question. Don't you ever feel tircd?'
80, what's the use of feeling tired?
haven't got time. If girl got tired she
wouldn't pass, would She?"
81 suppose not. But after you've passed.
you intend to leave this world, don't your
90 no, When | pass Pm going to study
for the stage, and get Il yacht and live in
Chicago; but you mustn't put that in the
paper, because l wouldn't like pa to know it,"
Then the American infant picked up her
books, gave her head little toss, and went
off with a gauCy mir