Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-01-18
Schnnl.Hiri's Studies.

She ran mp against an iron railing, and
locked scared.
I'll call policeman she said, pant
ingly, If you insult me-
She was only fourteen, and her pretty
thin face, with "a spot of earnatiOn in
each cheek. and her little fiaxen curls
hanging over her pale forehead as if try
ing to look iuto her blne eyes, gave her
the adolescent 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 20,
don't, please; 1 haven't done anything.
Go and see pa
%, nonsense said the reporter; we've
been interviewing pa for years. He does
mt know anything about it. We've
wasted our time interviewing school su
perintendents and principals and all the
other people Who don't know anything
about it. Now we're going to interview
you. Don't your head ache?'
Mine? Nop with little astonish-
mentl.
Not when you have to get all those
books into il?
%, they don't make my head ache; it's
my arms
%! see. You carry them in your
arms. not in your head
Here the reporter made a mental ex
clamatiOn. Wonderful feminine in
stinct, to carry the best things of life in
its arms and not in the head!
will you let me read the titles of the
books?'
Yes, if you will strap them up again.
'TrigOnometry! DoyOu study that?'
%, yes.
And surveying?'
She nodded her head affirmatiyely.
And navigatiOn?'
Another nod.
Will you excuse me while swear a
little?'
We'll, turn your head away
Reporter Thunder and Narsp (sotto
vOce). What's this? French! Do you
study French?'
%, I'm in the French and German
classes
You don't say SO! But you haven't
got into the Italian and Portuguese
classes?'
4 don't think there are any Portu-
guese, sir
We'll, if there had been you'd have
got into them, wouldn't you?'
Yes, sir: | hope So.
Physiological you study that?'
"A little. I've only just commenced
that After tluxions we take half an
hour at biology. and then go to applied
mechanics and telegraphy. l am going
to commence organic chemistry on Mon
day after my music. but ma thinks it
will interfere with my painting In OIL
i should think it would. Don't you
ever sleep or play?'
%, yes play the whole of CZerney's
exercises for the piano every morning,
and l am learning tie overture to rris
tan and Isole. | used to go to sleep in
the class room, but it was awful mean.
and / got over it. Miss -, our princi-
pal, say if we know the mission of wo-
man in the nineteenth century, We will
not be caught mapping. Besides, if
went to sleep wouldn't pass
Pass what?'
The examination
But you might pass some other
JnlHgS.
What other thingsY'
why vertigo, nervous exhaustion,
premature Decline
%, don't study those yet
Let me 60 now, pleaseT
Wait a moment. want to ask you
one other question. Don't you ever feel
tired?'
%, what's the use of feeling tired. l
haven't got time. If a girl got tired she
wouldn't pass, would she?'
Il suppose not. But after you've pass
ed you intend to leave this world don't
yOu?
o, no; when pass I'm going to study
for the stage, and get 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 saacy air.-(N. Y.