St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-23
ST. PAUL SILHOUETTES.

The ancient and time-honored saying that
prophet is not without honor save in his
own country, is very trrte remark to quote
but it is very applicable to the present situa-
ton. One of the cleverest of recent inven-
tons has had its origin right here in St Paul,
| and it is to be doubted whether half score
| people in town have ever heard of it. Prof.
| CoDgdon, who teaches music in the city
| schools. is the inventor, and the invention,
| which is manufactured in Germany, is a
| pitch pipe which gives the key note of ten
| different keys. Now, the average juvenile
| sou. has very little music in it. and when the
| primary grades sing the different pitches of
the singers are something trightful to hear.
| The ordinary pitch pipe gives at most but
/ two notes. The teacher starts on the cor
| rect pitch, but in the course of the lesson. in
| modulating from key to key. the constant i'm
! perceptible flatting keeps on till the class
unbeknown TO the teacher, sings very much
( out of key. In the absence of piano, Prof
| Congdon' little invention. which looks like
| the vulgar "mouth-organ," obviates this diff
| ficulty and enables the teacher and the class
/ to maintain al absolutely correct pitch.
| I
| There are great many furbelows about
! the schools these days and when one thinks
| what going to school used to maan when we
| were very young and what it means now the
change seems aim 0st incredible. 1t ought to
| be cause of prize among Us that our schools
| compare so we'll with those of the East The
| Chicago board of education so Miss Mary
| Burt, who belongs to it and ought to know if
anybody does, intend 70 show the world just
| what superior educational advantages Chica-
| go children enjoy. A nav high school is soon
| to be erected near jackson PARK, and in it
| will be thirteen grades. twelve of ordinary
| school work and one kindergarten depart
| ment The teachers are 10 be the best that
| can possibly be Obtained anywhere in the
| United States, and every one who comes to
| the fair will have an opportunity of seeing
| Chicago boys AMI girls i'll the act of ac1ur-
| ing an education.
1t is very poor specimen of humanity
| these days that doesn't belong to soma or
ganization, or hasn't invested in soma
scheme whose OBJECT is a visit to the worlds
fair under favorabls conditions. In the
words OF the song, where every oaa is
somebody. no one is anybody" and it does
seem that with special privileges granted to
so many, all will fare about alike. The are
a half-dozan installmant plan schemes for
taking you TO Chicago and boarding you
| while you are there. The Isabella clubs will
| reserved seats-thouga, in the strictess conf
| dence, will tell you that an arctic GOODNESS
between the board of lady managers and the
| Isabella association is limited at-the FateS
forbid it should be so! The Woman's Ma
tional Press league win take all active news
paper women under its wing and give them
the inside track in special correspondence
and all that sort of thing. Then there will
be thousands whom the guiIeful people of
| Chicago will fleece. There are people in
Philadelphia who made thousands of dollars
| during the centennial exhibition. and if Phil
adelphians can do that woe unto the luck
less wight who falls into the hands of the
| ruthless Chieagoite.
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These are the DAYS when deep-seated' and
| ineradicaDIe hatred for the young of the
human race takes such possession of us that
we no longer frown upon the men who own
I flats or rent houses for encouraging a whole
sale slaughter of the innocents. The inno-
cents are out enjoying the snow. You, being
economical or just absent-minded, perhaps,
| start to walk down hill-it doesn't matter
| what nil. for there are plenty of them and
| they are all alike. Halfway down an I'M
earthly, diabolical yell smites your ears, and
whooping small boy. extended on a sled,
| comes whizzing past; that is. if you are spry
| If you aren't, the sled Will career madly
against your legs, and-well. it makes you
| more wildly and uncontainedly angry than
| you ever were before IN your life. l don't
| like to write myself down as opposed to IN
| fantile pursuits of this kind, for was young
/ myself once but without being harsh, 1 do
! think something ought to be done to make
| sidewalks safe for pedestrians. AS it is, the
| small boy and sled are things of terror when
| present. and when absent they leave the
| SNOW entirely too slippery for the loot of
man.
:
Do you know anybody who is writing q
| novel? Personally, believe 1 know dozen.
| and the fever seems to be on the increase.
| One young woman l know confdenually in
| forms me that her novel Is coming on elor-
| iOusly. 1t hasn't any plot. she says, but it is
| Just going to be like one of Howells' stories.
| The Horton murder trial furnishes a text
| for one of the novels that are being written,
| aud the Press club and North Dakota life
| figure In Others. short story writers there
| are galore, and some very clever ones. too.
! Broken Peace is the title of all illustrated
! short story in the forthcoming December
| Northwestern Magazine. 1t is a humorous
! sketch woven about familiar scenes in St.
| Paul. The writer is an unusually gifted
| young girl in her teens who has love of lit
| crary study added to the cacoethes scFibepdi
| storv-writer must possess. Broken Peace
| earnest of good work in the future
Nobody cares where the valedictorian of a
| college comes from, because he is likely, after
! all, to be only long haired grind with no
ability for things higher than mere intellect
| ual attainments. But when a man becomes
| a member of the crew, or the niue or the
4 oil OIL oh0r,
| him, and his picture is published
| beside the portraits OF newly-elected
| senators and operate celebrities. The
| current Harper's Weekly contains portraits
| of the Yale and Harvard elevens- The Yale
| men are not much TO look at, artiStieally
! speaking. for their attitudes are not charged
| with Delsartean grace. and their expressions
| suggest a too plentiful consumption of the
| active green apple; hut they are intensely in
! terestng. and one of them is a st. Paul boy.
| The picture is a gross libel, for Wallace Win
| ter is really handsome fellow. and mas
much as he bears his honors on sophomore
| shoulders. the town that owns him has rsa-
| son to feel proud of him. Not having enjoyed
| the advantages of q strictly classical educa-
| ton. am not quite clear about football, and
| might not at first glance distinguish quarter
| back from q half-bacS. or a'center rush from
tackle, unless they were labeled but l feel
| quite sure that Winter played we'll at tackle
| yesterday. because the hearts of all the ex-
collegiate and alumni population of ST. Paul
| were With him.
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| The high collar the girl of the period wears
! on her winter wrap has given her vast
| amount of dignity. for shecan'L to save her
! life, move her head easily. And the mufflng
| OF her throat is an invitation to coughs and
/ cclds and bronchitis and other things of the
/ kind, but it makes a charming setting for
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