Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-06-15
4 worn 1BOUT .SCHOOLS.

Il HUHO IDO( \ 81 HDOIS.
The season of Commencement" i
upOn us, aud We may expect the usua
food Of invitations from che Of Class S3
% witness the fine dressing and the dc
hvering Of diplomas and to listen to tn,
nme old disquisitons on the same ole
themes that have been torn to'tatteri
these many years. If you would fully
realize the truth of the old adage 'ihero
~ nothing new under the sun, just at
tend Commencement"
II would be difficult TO determine. in
many cases, why boy is sent to College
or girl to Boarding School. 1t GER
tainly is not always that he or she may
be educated, but merely for the name OF
the thing. The result proves this, for
parents seem TO be totally Indifferent
whether their children have been mental
ly benefited or not, to say nothing Of
moral and physical growth If the boys
have learned an extra swagger and have
atrick or two Of seeming profunlity,
cad If the girls have little more pert
Aoss and two or three medals to string
around their nscks, it is enough-for
the maternal heart at least, whatever
misgivings levcl-heoded and matter-of-
facts father may have. We do not
mean to say that all mothers and most
fathers are thus deceived, but, as a rule,
parents are not unparalleled judges Of
Hie advancement of their offspring.
1t must be admitted that the lisad
vantage to boy cannot always be de-
termined by the failure to improve his
mind during his college course, for the
association with a large body of his
eqoals is likely to develop, whatever Of
manllness there may be in him and to
cure him of the sef-compacency and
constituencies which too frequently grow
upon him under the parental roof and
by too close an attachment tothe maternal
Apron-string. If he do strut d little
and talk little Latin and less Greek"
and some Metaphysics to awe-.strikc his
mother and little sisters, and smoke
C'garetts and such among his rustic and
less fortunate friends to impress them
with some vague idea Of his greatness
why little further contact with the
rough edges of the world will smooth
and polish off these little oxcrescenccs. if /
there be any substance in him at all, and
he will soon settle down into something
practical We cannot sec, however. but
that it it would better for boy who. has
no taste for letters to have such homeIy
-Nhust training as will fit him for
>'ue "busin ass" as speedily
$3.50. wie'.aut wasting time and
money to enable dl,.. - .'', 80
vor OF such portion OF ~ ,uts; /, vorlI I,
rs may be waited within H. -'---'- - .
College.
With girls we taink che ease is other
wise. We always did think Misses
Boarding SCHOOLS hunbugs, generally
speaking. and since reading a work by
an eminent physician of Washington,
who died few weeks siucc, we are more
th,n ever convinced that "huubug" is
a mild term for some Of them. This
uhysician handles things without gloves
and his publication might be deemed
very improper book to be read by most
people. This is one of the unfortunate
things about the education Of youth. -
Parents hesitate to speak to them plainly .
Of certain things and to warn them
sgainst the very pitfalls and little
quicksands into which they know that
they themselves barely escaped falling
There is no place in the world like
home for girls There is great move
ment in England and Northern Colleges
and Universities for the equa' c lucation
os.men aud women, on the theory that in
the donysin Of mind ne sex is recognized.
This may be all very well, and it a wo-
man have thirst for knowledge it might
be difficult to assign a reasen why facll-
i6ies for gratifying this craving should
not be offered her, even at the risk of
making her "bluc- stocking that
bite noire Of every man, be he fool or
not. But for us of the country-glve
IN a loving sympathetic womn who
dotes on clean linen and chickens and
gardens and flowers; who thinks a root
Is . root even il it be Greek root; who
cares more for the descent Of hawk
than for the descent of Man. and if
she be this good housewife, replcte
with womanliness. it matters not wheth-
err or not she have read book through
in her life, or have taken a single "ex-
ira" even at Burlington. We guarantee
that such an one will have more smtors
and make a happier home than any mere
Boarding School Miss" or graduate OF
Nassar.
Communicated
The story Runneth Thus.