The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-11

[nt time, last term, when the teacher was
oonducting the morning devotional
xcrcises.
The Cali Read.
The call was in substance as follows: ~
"When I'm the course of everyday events IL
ecomes necessary for boys To get out from
fmnder and have things square, and To assume
among the teachers and parents OF the world
1he separate and equal station TO which ordin-
\ oxy horse sense entities them, the correct
hing 70 do is TO get together and tell people
where they are at
1--WE hold these truths TO be self-evident,
E.nhaf All bows are better than all girls and
6nual 10 their dads. and that they are en-
Howed with certain unalienable rights, and
among these, the privilege To eat what ana
z >-hon they please, 90 TO bed when they please,
ma wash themselves when they please. ZAP
&lnusc)
| We. therefore, the representatives or the
I2ovs OF two Americas ono Asia. one Africa.
nne Europe. one Australia and all intervening
bodies OF land. in convention assembled, app
scaling to nothing. do declare that the rest OF
3bo world has got 20 quit thinking OF us as
nofhinx hut the choppers of kindling, tho
\ nrawcrs os water and the getters of lessons
(Cat calls.
n This preliminary statement OF what
. XU8Y were NSStIffDitu lOI tlChita SNCiJ Ivy
<1nrooent, and 1T was voted to have the call
Sr1nted in the 100 different languages
5poken by the various bodies of Boys
:&opresented.
The election OF officers followed. Tom
ny Fuller had jack knife with four
zvhole blades and a corkscrew, so was
: northwith made president; Billy Dobbins
40 made secretary because he could
x...x x.aIl M ha ennld raad. and
Psfer Jones was made treasurer because
~ had been through partial payments.
n THAT gave all the offices to the Providence
7SIe0ation, but no one kickcd.- Then
AZ was decided to conduct business by
oommittees because it would give lot OF
npportunities to be chairmen OF some
Thing, only the term chairboy was SUBJ
otituted.
$ President Fuller appointed 73 commit
fecs. one for the consideration Of each
4 xrievance Boys are subjected TO, that he
could think OF on the spur OF the moment
and said that he would appoint Others as
\ 1nst as the other wrongs We're suggested
Is him. Some one said that he had left
out the bother of caring for finger nails
'.nnd Fuller Immediately made up his 74th
0ommittee.
John Long presented the resolution that
. 1he Boys give vote of thanks that they
Vore not girls and 1t was referred to the
oommittee on curls, as was also the reso-
1ution that the parents OF every male child
} ~ compelled to have its hair cut snort i'll
the second year.
Take q Recess and a Bath.
Then the convention adjourned to 60
fc~ - Int ha far
- it wanted to on an empty stomach, as
she f3rst manifestation Of independence OF
0omestic rules Of health.
A Serious Charge.
BY 10 o'clock the Boys were in camp
ngain ready for business, and the first
duty was an unpleasant one. Willie
ninth had been seen drying himself with
= towel after the swim, and was charged
with the fact in open meeting. Willie
blushed and would have denied tho fact,
but . boy pulled the towel from under
Ms coat and held it up to the ridicule OF
the convention so that oil could see
tho words ''sweet and clean" en-
hroidered on the end. Willie was
I. pushed outon to the Silver Hook road for
home and his delegation given power to
III the vacancy. This was followed by a
contest for place in the delegation from
Durni-AseHf ia-ths- -Island-nf Sumatra.
One Boy, whose name was not on the roll, /,
uaid that 1t should be there in
place of one credited to his
Island because the one he objected
x 80 had always worn his breech cloth and
done just as the missionary told him to.
The objection was sustained and the
change made in the Sumatra party. And
chat ended everything in the way OF dis
oension.
Committee Reports.
The report OF committees were then
ealIed for.
The committee on education recon-
ncndcd bill that every nation should
establish schools, in which attendance be
compulsory on the part of all persons
from 28 TO As years OF age, and that the
subjects of instruction should be .Mem-
0ry" and "Reminiscences OF Our Own
Earlier Years" Also from the same COM
mittee, that the school system now in
existence be so altered that there
& should be only one term fbm the
f1rst Monday in November to the
4 second Thursday in March inclusive, with
sessions on only four days of each week,
with months vaction at Christmas, and
Che question OF extra holidays for skat-
lng and other useful purposes be left TO
1ho Judgment OF the scholars. And also
that Algebra and the naming OF capes,
1slands and peninsulas be stricken from
She curriculum. The bill was passed as
rad.
The committee on eating between meals
prcscnted full report on the question OF
Appetite and the law OF sustaining life,
and advocated any method by which the
locking OF larders might be done away
With. The report was referred back 10
Che committee with instructions TO devise
. method.
The committee on obedienee stated that
1t had no report and ats chairboy, q dele
rots from Meklsfaiasfot in Arabia sx-
planned that IL probably never would have
and asked that the committee be dis
+. charged, which was done and President