The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-11
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The Higher Mathematics for Girls.
Constance is a Young lady who stud
les geometry, and she doesn't like it.
che insists that her studying that sci
ence is perfectly silly, and Of noearthly
use to any one in the world; but she has
!. got TO worry through the old thing
somehow, since those oldnumbheads (?)
NJ VIII have it in the school course. And
4he says they can bear the consequences.
Al she makes ninny of herself at ex-
aIniIn 10 she just knows she
snall-lt won't be her fault. Tbcu0h
OF course, she shall have to bear All fbe
plame-botheration! She should think
tney might be satisfied with having tor
tured the life out of her time and AGAIN
TOT the last six months, without con-
irving to make disgraceful nublic
uate her! J siau-
Conformably to this victimized voung
lady's theory of the corrnntio9 az
short-sighted malice of her i1strpcto or
ehe Is supposed to commit herself tn a
4 period of mental agonizinp every after'
noon. From until e o'cI9ct sho
wrestles nightly with tbeorems a nd
problems. anu
She sits down at the window with the
DooA' ana her crocheting- she saws
sue can learn anything in half the time
"un some sort OF work in her hands
Puls the ivory end Of the crochetinp-
heehe between her teeth and twirls the
she read: ''ii0'
Iheorem xliy.-If line be bisected
anu produced, the rectangle contained
V1e whole line and the part pro-
uuGeu, together with the square on one
ha1 OF the bisected line, will be equiva-
iGnC 10 the square on line made up of
1pe part produced and one-half the BIZ
sected line.
Goodness! I should think it wouldr'
she CALCULATES ironically. Then GAZING
earnestly out Of the window she goes
On sohloquizing, presumably for the
lehelt OF her brother who essays to
ead IN the same room with her.
There goes Squire Robinson. They
night just as well tell me this thing Is
equivalent to him, or any other man,
or all know about squares bisected
ooh, shut up. Sis,''
81 won t do it. / wonder what he is
going to do with Mains doll-wagonl
a. gong to get it mended, / guess.
10 has gone into Odlin's shop.n and
ne sIghs gloomily glympsically over
he retrospect of her own forever van
shed doll-wagon days. Then. bavino
disposed Of her lost youth, she looks
With deep aversion at her open book
md leans back in her chair for two
minutes in dead silence. From her air
absorption it is to be inferred that
he is specializing upon the chances of
line having capabilities Of equivalencv
lher than IT is accused of in the theo-
EN-. Not being able to convict it Of
ross irrcgularity, she gives the geome-
~ vicious poke in the leaves. and !
hen shakes 1t a little, as she chances at
-Four lines of that thing" she MUIR
=@lurs; "oh, dearl' Reads, If line |
, e bisected and produced what stuff |
low can 1t be bisected before it is pro- |
% uced? / never saw anything that |
)uld be cut IN two before it was made, |
Md don't believe a line can be.
- Silence and crocheting for a brief in
Orval, then another sigh. ooh, dearl |
ut / am going to learn that thing if it
ofays line can skip to Maloo. / can
pi.and it if the line can Looks up and
own the str ct repeating, IF line be
issected and produced
''Bt-Sected, Sis, corrects her brother.
3rcho is year younger than she, and in
uHe same class.
'Bisectcd, thon-and produced; and
len-then, she crOons, evidently
'H ruggling to reason out what would |
"aturaliy befall "a line, after its untime-
" cutting off and production.
Iut 'Rectangle, prompts Charles.
-. ooh, yes. The rectangle. Now.
len speaking rapidly in a high KEY.
II II start fair. II "a line be dissecfed
I'D produced '--
90. "Aw, Sis, what a gump! it's Jiseeted;
p. cans cut in two. You can't diSsect a
...le.
whats the reason you can'tp If
.. ssect don't mean cut in TWO, what
es it mean? Don doctors always
.....N there! | cant stop to argue with
.'"!":!s7nn boy. Hush, Wv, and let
................. is riahted < more. and
red endowmring theorem Is read twice
nee ,n me closest attention. >Then, shut
~ her eyes and clasping ler hands,
repeats it word Tor word, correct TO
"Bullyi YOU can learn q ometry, or
- Uthing else YOU have mind to-"
-.mmends tharley; but his sister
laa,owns at him without speaking, and
- subsidies. abashed thereafter giving
- sole attention to Tom Sawyer.
~, "Now for the demonstration Gro
adeting like lightning for minute,
4 + en- suddenly leaning back restfully in
lin e easy chair "Well, let's see. We
ertye-we haye-oh. haveA B-the very
islea.-is 10 G L, or G d. [ declare, [
1ptn't get this. Then we are TO prove
h, ha! l must get right start on
at, or | can't do one thing with it.
dissected -disSected-n risected-
nd produced. oh, Can immense sigh
Ie rectangle G l., and the square a /
-elui-"
A long, gentle silence succeeds. The
Tght evening wind rustling the leaves
. an open geometry, and the rapid
lhlrning of those of Tom Sawyer by
u absorbed boy are the only sounds
= sard. Constance's dreams are those
Of a mind at peace Chicago Journal.