New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-30

From The London Telegraph.
Pity has been abundantly and gratuitously Law.
isheG on the Blue-coat boys. who are compelled by
the laws of their school to aDOut baTeheaded III
most weathers The actual sight of the yellow
stockings. the long cloak bucked round the middle
Looking like something between al ulster and 4
dressing gown and the mead entirely destitute OF
any covering beyond that which nature has gwen
TO- has often led TO notion that Che Glue. coat boys
are brought up TO endure the most terrible nIrd.
ships. However experience would probably soon
convince anybody who tIled a short spell Of gong
about hatle>s or bOnnetless- provided he did not
catch cOld-that many much worse evils have 10 De
encountered IN the course Of a HES career
than this particular infection The saving of time
and trouble IN not having 10 take Oh tn hat IN
presence OF superioTs for instance. must IN itself DO
an appreclable benefit. Yet Blue-cOat boys are not
badly or after al, for they may carry the useful
umbrella about with them IN case of ram. Conse-
quently 1t may be asserted with some commences
that but little additional convene nee would 10
accorded to the Newcate-street scholars were they
all at once 10 break out luio nedd-coNerhSs VINO
should be deprived of picturesque and original
costume in the metropolitan streets II these BOYS
took to the same outward hablllurnts other lads.
one distinct advantage of the Biue-cOat uniform
lies IN the with which II enables the scholars
of Chrsts Hospital 10 be Identified among any
assemblage. IN London or elsewhere. Al schools
20 more or less Tor some distinctive ana pecuiiar
dress among their pupils tor the necessary purposes
of discipline. EtOn insists on the Jacket ana collar
below a certain agn. and ONT other pubic schools
prescribe black coat, and straw hats. or trcncher
caps and in some instances black ties. rs tue rrgu-
latiOn rainent. one OF these days perhaps, reform
Yet who Will not bewall the change that rObs Us or
the time-hOnOrel garb of Camden AMI Coieridge,
and sends their out 70 roam the streets
arrayed in the m0nOtouOus prOprlety of "A chimney
pot hati Possibly the Greci1us may walk win
increased sellrespcct If Invested of the stocking,
but rs regard. the mass of Bues' the gown -
probably regarded with mixture of pride merging
into Indifference. our dress, says the lnlmitaDle
Ella WIS of the cOarseSt and qulInttst kind. nut
was respected ont CT doors. and l. 20 still IL con-
sisted OF a blue drugset gown, with ample skirts 70
IL: yellow vest underneath IN winter time small
clothes of Russian duck, wOrsted yellow stockings,
n leathern glrdle. and little black worsted cap,
usually carried IN the hand. We used 10 latter
ourselves that the dress taken from the monks,
and there went q mOnstrOus tradition that at one
period it consisted of blue velvet with silver but
IONS Yesterdays procession 10 the Mansion House,
AID afterward 10 church. motto able. among
other things for the badge carried by some OF the
scholars on their breasts. with the words lie -
risen" inscribed thereuD0n. This Us ID accordance
with the injInctOns OF an ancient legatec, whose
last will and testament directed that certain
number OF boys should wear gloves hearing the
device in question IN Easter week Herein we have
an instance OF the way IN which tie Chrlsts Hos.
ptal of the present feels the influence OF the past
the grasp of the dead hand" In all its ceremonlaS
but no unkindly unbenehcial grasp, after all.