San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-08-05
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Tread before the Teachers Social
Club by Mrs. Jones, Of Uvaldol.


OFT you're heard II told, know,
''Man wants but little here below,
But how to get that little, IL
The thing that wrinkles up his phik.
Once in the flight OF the long gon
ages OF the past when the primeya
world was wrapped, as it were, in oh
security, and ignorance brooded lik'
a dark and sombre spectre over thu
abodes OF men (that is, il was twent,
or thirty years ago, before any OF thu
new educational methods had beer
devised; when people learned theil
A b Os straight along out OF a now
backed spelling book, and advanced
from them 10 their alb abs)i there
lived manor. well, he grew TO be
man afterwards; no was nothing
but mere youth, then, and couldn't
find his moustache, though he sought
for it long and faithfully. This no
bic scion of the Adamic race had oped
his eyes on scenes that were wrong
all wrong. In his perigrinations
from the cradle to his first pair OF
red-top boots, every law Of Philology,
Psychology Physiology and Philos.
|ophy, conchotomy, cosmogony and
anatomy, and all the hygienic princi-
ciples which govern and regulate the
physical--which promote the mental,
moral and metaphysical development
of the genus homo. had, in his case,
been violated-or at least, nearly all
of them-there might have been a
few minor laws that were not expert
mented in, such as opening the ar
terry under the parotid gland. But
still he lived-waxed in strength and
grew in stature--passed through all
the Shakspearean stages, commonly
known as the Angelic, the Cherubic,
the Gymnastic, the Satanic and the
Byronic. During the angelic age he
learned one important lesson-learned
it from his fond and gentle mother,
whose organ of philoprogenitiveness
far overbalanced those of causality,
eventuality, ideality, sablimity, firm
ness and good common sense; he
learned to cry for what he wanted.
After long years had winged their
their fight, years of toll and priva-
ton, he was forced to acknowledge,
in the slumbers of midnight, when
every hair swung loose to the wind,
that this was the most effectual meth
cd man had ever devised for procur-
ing that little which is so essential in
the earthly pilgrimage.
During the cherubic, he advanced
by slow and painful steps from the
known to the unknown, but still he
assembled one round on the ladder
he learned to ask for what he want
ed. AS this method was not SO ef'
fectual as the former, he showed
decided tendency to relapse into his
former stage-but non est; upward
and onward is the watchword that
the finger of destiny has written in
letters on the banner
that she proudly waves before the
children of men; and with the whip
of an inexorable fate to urge him on,
he must "On! Chester, on OF
he'll regret it,
But now great changes are slowly
but surely approaching. Peculiar
twitchings are being tele-
along the vertebr@. He
feels an uncomfortable desire to per-
form his perambulations on both
hands and feet All his dreams of
future bliss, all his aspirations of
earthly grandeur, are centered in the
one grand idea of performing the
feats of an amatueur circus actor =
be has reached the gymnastic age.
His physical organization undergoes
The mighty upheavals and contor-
lions incident to the period. He is
now handed over to foreign power
"A ''school marin. Under her ju-
risdiction he learns two things: first,
TO supply the increasing demands of
nature by strategy (when both the
former methods have faileD; and sec
md, that " Mary had a little lamb
This last slice from the pie of knowl-
edge was thrust uppn him-his mind
never reached for it, never discovered
t incidentally-but he learned it.
Now, swiftly borne along by the
land of destiny, he reaches the most
clearly defined and best developed
period of his existence-the satanic.
He now turns himself over to for
,ign power. All traces of the angelic
md cherubic drop from him like a
worn ont garment, and he stands
,horn of his beams. but still prince.
During this period the learning is
lot altogether on his side. The peo-
Die around him learn q few things. |
His mother learns to pray with
uller and firmer tone. His father
earns to throw bootjacks, tongs and
,ther projectiles with a truer aim.
His sister adds words to her vocabu-
airy altogether unknown to Web
tiers unabridged. His teacher adds
Ter name to the list of martyrs-ac-
.umulates another wrinkle on her
ROW, and resolves to suffer and be
trong. And still he lives (some peo-