The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-01-25
A SCHOOLGIRLS Studies.

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She ran up against an iron railing, and
looked scared.
"Pll call a policeman" she said, pant
ingly, 81 you insult me-"
She was only fourteen, and her pretty
thin face, with spot of carnation in
each cheek, and her little fiaxen curls
hanging over her pale forehead as if try
ing to look into her blue eyes, gave her
the adolescent aspect of 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; 81 only want
to interview you"
Interview meP" she exclaimed.
go. don't. please; | haven't done any
thing. Go and see pa
80, 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 aud principals
and all the other people vino dom tknow
anything about it. Now we're going to
interview you. Don't your head ache2"
"Mine? MOI" with little astonish-
ment).
Not when you have to get all those
books into it?''
90, they don't make my head ache;
it's my arms"
go! see. You carry them in your
arms, not in your head
Here the reporter made mental ex-
clamation. Wonderful feminine instinct,
to carry the best things of life in its arms
and not in its head! ~
VIII you let me read the titles of the
| books2'' t5..as ssf
Eyes, if you will strap them up again. -
"Trigonometry! Do you study that9"
80, yes
stAnd surveyingpp
She nodded her head affirmatively.
"And nayigation?'
Another nod.
/ "Will you excuse me while swear a
littleP''
"Well, turn your head away"
Reporter-''Thunder and Marsr'
| (sotto voce). whats this? French!
Do you study French?n
80, I'm in the French and German
classes
-s'.You don't say so! But you haven't
got into the Italian and Portuguese
| classes?n
''I don't think there are any Portu-
guese, sir.'' e4 .a5
"Well, if there had been you'd have
got into them, wouldn't YOUR
eyes. sir; I hope So"
"Physiology-do you study thatp''
"a little. I've only just commenced
that. After fuxions we take half an
hour at biology, and then go to applied
mechanics and telegraphy. am going
to commence organic chemistry on Mon
day after my music, but ma thinks it will
interfere with my painting in OIL
81 should think it would. Don't you
ever sleep or playP''
20, yes; play the whole of Czerney's S
exercises for the piano every morning,
and l am learning the overture to Tristan
and Isole. ! used to go to sleep in the
classroom, but it was awful mean, and
| l got over it. Miss -, our princi-
pal, says if we know the mission of
woman in the nineteenth century, we
will not be caught mapping. Besides, if
| went to sleep / wouldn't pass
"Pass what?n
"The examination.
"But you might pass some other
things.'' -.
"What other things?''
"Why vertigo, nervous exhaust on,
premature decline
90, don't study those yet.
'sLet me go now, please?n
"Wait a moment Iwant to ask you
one other question. Don't you ever feel
stiredPn
80. what's the use of feeling tired. l
haven't got time. II a girl got tired she
wouldn't pass, would she?''' p
+ Il suppose not. But after you've
passed you intend to leave this world,
don't your sa
20, no; when Ipass + m going to study
for the stage, and get yacht and live
in Chicago; but you mustn't put that in
| the paper, because wouldn't like pa to
| know it.n = h
Then the American infant picked up
her books. gave her head a little toss,
and went off with q saucy air.-N z.
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