Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-09
AN OLD.TIME SCHOOL.

High echool girls, and even grammar grade girls, to say nothing of college girls and post graduate course young women, will laugh to soorn the idea of such a school as this, advertised in New York paper away back in 17e6:
 "Mrs. M. Scott has opened 8 school, at the corner of Smith and Duke streets, for the instruction of young ladies in needle work and netting, spelling correctly and reading grsmmatically, with its proper pro- nuuciation; and particular attention will bs paid to forming the manners and inn proving the morals of those tender minds sire to be taught writing, & proper master will attend three days in the week" Rather prunes and prisms-y this reads, but 1t isn't so bad so far as it goes. Bal ring the "netting," which perhaps was as highly esteemed ss Is our art needlework ! to-day, the rest of the program Is rather attractive. Sewing, reading, spelling, mann 'rs, morale, and lastly, writing. No mathematics. no ecience, no languages, no preparation for the Harvard Annex or for entrance examinations to Yale university! Advocates of the higher education of women will turn up their classic noses at
 
 ism in 1t, and with good reason, but the l spelling correctly and the reading gram | mstically with fits" proper pronunciation, as the quaint phrasing runs, are homely but pleasing accomplishments, still to be | desired, and alas! not always possessed by l ambitious young explorers in the spacious l fields of learning.
 | A PRETTY EXPERIMENT. ] A crystallized tree or shrub enclosed In 6 bottle is both curious and attractive. Moreover 1t can be seen growing day by day, putting forth its foliage of scintillst- ing crystals, and as the experiment Is both beautiful and inexpensive 1t is well worth trying.
 This pretty novelty may be produced in the following way: Put half an ounce of sugar of lead, in powder, into clean white decanter or large vial filled with water add ten drops of nitric acid and shake the mixture thoroughly. Then take piece ot zinc about the size of hazel nut, tie 1t tc string and drsw this string through ( cork that fits the mouth of the bottle Round the bit of zinc twist piece of fine
 brass or copper wire. letting one end oi the wire hang down. Place the zinc ano
 wire 50 prepared in the solution, hanging
 from the cork in the center of the bottle
 and nowhere touching the glass. Tn.
 metal will soon be covered with lead crys
 tals which 1t separates from the solution
 and this will continue to take place unti
 the whole is precipitated on the zlnc, whiol
 will then sssnme the form of tree witl
 leaves and branches of metallic lustre.
 Another way is to fit the bit of zinc int,
 the cork of a large glass jar. Five or si, brass wires in spiral coils hang down int, } the solution. These should be separated . as much as possible. When crystallizst they will appear like curling vines, GOV cred with brilliant foliage.
 The experiment. is by no means a ne1 one, though it may be new to many wh read of 1t here. It was known to the al
 chemists of long ago, who named the leaf like accumulation ''The tree of Saturn, lead being devoted to that deity and calle by his name. They believed that the cor . per or brass wire was really transforme to lead, but the fact is that the copper l dissolved in the liquid and is replaced b a the lead which is deposited, no transforms
 ton taking place. It is, rather. subst : tudon. One may vary at will the form ( l theSiar, and the disposition of the wire : whick support the crystals of lead, an ! form letters or figures ct pleasure. : HILARY.