Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-10-19
GOING TO SCHOOL
Burdcttc Pours Out Some Philosophy on
q Painful Subject.


a Painful Subject.
Dear little man, so YOU are back in school
and you don't like it pretty we'll don't Think
Well, that's natural and boy like, but it isn't
right. Going to school is great fun, after you
are too old to go any more, which will be
when you are old enough to die, and then i
suppose you will go to another school. When
was your age don't think liked going to
school little bit, but that was because
didn't have very much sense when l was
young. only worked and studied about six
or seven hours a day then, and had but three
teachers to obey. was the gladdest boy you
ever knew, when got out of school, and you
never knew me. Since then have been at
work all the time. and have to obey more peo-
pie than ever saw in school house at one
time. The editor says If don't have nv com.
position ready by Friday night he won't have
1t at all, the foreman says he must have it in
hand Friday morning or 1t won't go in, the
proof reader says II he doesn't get the proofs
Thursday night they will have to read them
selves and the compositors-there are seventy
fivesor eighty of them-declare they will strike
If don't write more plainly and plnctuate
properly and spell better. Then used to
recite before a small class, or the school at
most, and now have to read my compost
ton and say my piece before all the subscri.
bers. When was IA boy the teacher corrected
me in the presence of the class, but now the
critic, a terrible fellow he is, coirects me
right out in print before everybody, and
when | don't say my lesson to suit him
doesn't he dust my jacket for me, thought
The way he makes the lint fly is caution,
and the worst of it is daren't "holler," and
so get over it; that would only make him
worse. and beside everybody would laugh
at nae and cry, "Give him some more in the
same place" He can-and does-say lust as
nice things as he does rough ones, but you
have to dot your is and cross your is to earn
his approval Then have to work for my
landlord, and the grocery man and the tax
collector and the shoemaker, and don't
know how many other people. have to buy
oil for the marching club Of my party, and
have to march in the dust or the mud, and
listen to long speeches and make some longer
ones myself / have to say please" and
''thank you," and say "sir" when speak to
the governor; darent go in my bare feet,
and I've only been fishing once this year,
and then didn't stay long and didn't catch
anything: at the table, no matter how hungry
am, have to serve everybody else before
get bite to eat myself. and am always
u i
Bogus Hollow says he is going to lick me for
shooting his dog-and he looks like n man of
his word, too-when everybody knows I'm
afraid OF a gun and couldn't hit flock of
barns anyhow, on rest, and with globe
sights; another man threatens to put me in
Jail If don't pay ball that have three,re-
ceipts for, and a poor widow woman in Rag
alley, who takes In washing and gin, is going
to sue me if don't pay her $40 because my
COW tore up her garden, when she has no
garden and never owned a COW in my life
can't follow the circus procession, can't
stay home when have the toothache can't
get excused when the fish are biting; some of
the boys in this great big school are DULLES,
and some OF them are fools, and some of them
are toadies, and some of them are sneaks,
and some are liars, and some of them are
great, big hearted, loving fellows, that you
want to be with all the time, but they're SO
busy you can only snatch word with them
once in long while. 1t isn't so very much
different from your own school after all, only
the discipline is more severe, and the Teacher
is strict, while he is loving and gentle. But
every time you break rule you smart for it,
Idont wonder that some Of the older pupils
are glad, glad, glad, when their lessons are
all said, and the blotted books are put away,
and they are called up into the higher room,
where they will be closer to tho Master, and
all the hard places in the old lessons will be
explained away so lovingly and clearly that
never sigh will punctuato the recitation
and never tear blister the pages that we
blur and blunder over SO stupidity and blindly
now. All, my little man, you'd better learn
to love your school; you'll never get out of it
until they send word to the sexton that you
have graduated. - Robert ]. Burdetto In
Brooklyn Eagle.