The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-04
DAILY INDEPENDENT. HELENA SUNDAY MORNING. NAY 1890

yersity, and you know that's utt ably out Of
the question: Why, my poor head ;che.
novel; literary effort, I think / may say, j.
not my forte. And, don't you know, could
not associate with those rough fellahs thai
20 In for Athletics and all that sort of thing
Violent exercise is awfully bad form. And
then the pater had to throw my sister in my
teeth! Madee is an awful blue-stocking
pom honor. for pweasure! Fancy any chap
PIE weading Agamemnon for pweasure!.
Now. WEAKLY, hope you'll do something
to get me ont Of this howwible mess you've
landed me in, for the pater's in doosid
bad temper. Bewy bad form to get in .
semper. Besides, he ought to know it's bad
Tor his digestion-I know it is for mine,
Yours, SIa A. RErrE.
PROBABLY WICKED MAN.
To The INDEPENDENT: think it was
Just lovely of you to put that nice article
on the education of girls in last Sundays
INDEPENDENT. It is just lovely to know
that my sisters all over the United States
are doing so we'll. Do You know, believe
veil actually have a class here to study
Dante! I'm quite sure if you have a few
$50 WI No yOu ~ 6CAA WHO'LL 0kOAky
ana dictionary or two, and few gram
mars. Just doat on study. Don't forget
70 prepay the postage on the books; of
course We don't know the grammar at all,
but think it is SO interesting to read q
book right away, don't you? Sadie Jones'
the conceited creature has just got a new
spring gown, and looks perfect fright in
it, too-turned up her nose when spoke to
her about the class, and said she hoped, /
was not getting too old to study, and she
much preferred to 90 walking with her
beau in the evenings. and SO would other
folks, if they had one! always knew she
had no mind. don't think told you we
have got such nice young man for school
teacher. saw him looking at me in church
the last two Sundays, and he walked home
behind me afterwards. It ia he that's
going to teach the class. Yours.
YOUNG AMERICA IN TROUSERS.
To The INDEPENDENT: II Warner thinks
we're gettin' left he's off his base. A boy
can whip girl every time he wants to, but
he don't always want to. If couldn't
throw stone different from the way girl
does, Pdwant to lay down and kick myself.
First she fools around five minutes lookin'
for one that amt got no mud on it, and
when she's got one that kind o. suits her,
and has wiped it on her handkerchief case,
she dirties her hands, she begins to whoop
her arms round and round for another five
minutes, and all of q sudden she gives a
yell and the rocks of when she was least
expectin' 1t, and it's ten to one that it hits
some kid that was standing three yards be-
hind her! It makes me tired to see a girl
throw stone! OF course in studies the
girl once or twice gets ahead of the boys,
but then they've got so much else to attend
to, and they amt afraid of lickin' for not
KNOWN them, as she is. don't think I'll
put my name to this, or my girl might see
it and 60 back on me. so I'll just sign it
HIGH SCEooL.
wARNEL rs RIGHT.
To The INDEPENDENT: Mr.. Charles Dud-
ley Warner is quite right. In the coming
race between the sexes for mental suprem-
acy the young woman of to-day will win
for the simple reason that she is strength
ening her mind for the struggle. On the
contrary her male opponent is wasting the
resources that are so abundant on all sides.
His leisure hours, as Mr.. Warner says, are
given to symposiums at popular resorts"
even small part of their time to reading
the reviews, magazines or the more serious
newspaper articles on questions of the day.?
Very few of them are like young men of
other towns. I am not certain what Mr..
Warner means by newspaper made
man." If he means that the modern
young man depends on the daily journal
for his information, then it seems to me
that he makes poor use of his text book. !
do not believe that he reads one out of
twenty of the really valuable newspaper
He seems to think they bore
rather than entertain him. A brief sum-
mary of the daily news and lingering
hour over the flash and trash finish his
newspaper reading for the day. His Sun
day reading is beneath yellow covers. The
modern young women is not what she
should be, in a literary sense, but in any
event she chooses better reading and she
reads more. The Browning club may be
fad, but it may also arouse a dormant
spirit that will bring many hours of profit
able entertainment. The wonderful growth
Of the Chautauqua Circle, which is almost
wholly women institution, illustrates the
eagerness with which the female mind is
for the best available means for
mental growth. do not know of any SINH
ar association of young men. Finally, I
1eed only point to the way in which the
7oung woman is pushing herself into the
professional, literary and edu-
,ational worlds to show that she is fast be-
'oming successful rival of the young man
# to-day for worldly honors.
TYPEWRITER.
Cunning Doe.