Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-09


rectly, to write clearly, and TO know
whether Cleveland was the capital of
Pennsylvania, or Richmond in Calf
fornia. / have always been under the
impression that those people who wished
to tit their children for the world of
letters should pay for it, and that the
boy who had to leave school when he
was ID years old to take position in an
office or shop was properly fitted by |
education in the free schools, fitted for |
it by his knowledge of three RS.
THE PREcocIoUs GIRL
of 10, who stands high in geometry, and
who, parrot.like, repeats pages of his
tory when tine board visits the school, is
unable, nine times out of ten, 10 write
decent letter-and when l say decent, l
mean correct, either in spelling, writing
or composition. Then, too, should
have no question of religion enter the
schools, A short prayer addressed to
the Father of us all, could be said in the
morning, but the reading of any relig-
ious book, that might be offensive to the
parents of any child, should be done
away with. If the people wish to send
their children to religious schools, let
them either pay for it, or let the church
of which they are members, arrange for
the free scholars. l never expect to be
on school board-bnt, thank goodness !
have had an opportunity to say what
think.
NY LADY's BONNET ADoRNMENrs.
There must be one comfort in being a
man-one doesn't have to put on ones
hat with bonnet pin. II is true the
| bonnet pin has grown to lie a thing of
beauty. Its head is studded with dia-
monds, sometimes real and sometimes
not. Sometimes it Is turquoise that is
at the top of it, and all the lovely col
ored stones are called into service to
make it a joy forever; but that doesn't
make the pain any the less when its
sharp point goes into your hard head.
You have gotten the bonnet just at the
right angle-you stand quite still, and
10 and behold the pin slips, and you
have to place the bonnet afresh. The
next time the pin doesn't slip, but IL
digs into your head as if it were a straw
berry-the head, not the pin. And the
next time IL slides along, and you think
it is all right, when suddenly you md
out that the pin has gone through your
hair, but not through the bonnet. Now,
man just puts his hat on, and there is
no question Of a pin, and it is square on
his head; and even if the wind comes
and goes, that hat stays, as if it knew its
business; whereas, the carefully pinned
bonnet will 90 to one side or the other,
and the waved hair will blow; and one
will see ones self in a window on the
street, and an instant decision that life
isn't worth living will be arrived at,
Yet, the despised bonnet pin has its
uses. You can open a, letter with it, or
pick nuts with 1t; and when you 20 10
cash check, you can prod 1t into the
woman who is in front Of you when she
don't hurry up. 1t is always an accept
able present, when studded with dia-
monds, and it is rather a low handed
woman who isn't quite willingto give a
penny in exchange for Ia pretty one
preventing the sharp r. at from cutting
the furniture.
THE DREADFUL. Gas EXToRTIoNERs.
Speaking II cutting friendship, did
you ever GEAR that you mustn't give {
pair Of fhppers to anybody you are font
of, for as sure as you do they wall
/ awSy from you and never come back
krhave been thinking of giving pair t.
: I our gas man, but the result might no
be what wish, as can't claim to have
friendly feeling toward him. AnC
Z this is the reason why. New ork ha!
: the worst gas in the world. This i
g firstly. Last June, when went away
i | tore up all my gas receipts That
secondly. At thirdly comes the dra
!, matte situation. About January tn
4 collector began to bring me bill TO
q the May before. | insisted that | ha,
4 paid it, as | had. My receipts onl
n reached back to september, but l ha
/ always been told that when you paid
r. monthly bill, that the last hsI recsipte
~ all others before it. Now nat CON
~ pany announced that, unless paid tina
70 bill, $3.50, which | had already pait
II they would turn the gas off. And the
,. did. This is fourthly. At the sam
ar time the company had in its possessio
,e five dollars of my money, on which the
r were drawing interest, and which W;
% demanded at the time that first needle
10 the gas. Well, | had TO pay that bill
Sc This is filthy. For
a l WAS IN THEIR POWER,
and the gas company in New York is
monopoly, which gives poor gas al
no keeps bad bookkecpers, That five dolla
IA on deposit is smart trick of theiI
nv Now, the house in which live pays fl
~. dollars floor for the gas meter beiI
re- put in, nobody knows where it is, al
he couldn't run away with it, and the cor
#. pany carefully keeps this deposit dra'
no ing an income from the various on
y, that come TO them. II must amount
an immense sum when you realize VIII
q the deposit is in large houses, when fl
~ dollars is asked for single floor. No
~ You can understand why | want to 81
he the gas man pair of slippers.
ia. An the moral Of il all is-keep 70
Nv receipts. And the climax advice is-p
IL your gas bills by check, and write on t
mn check exactly the month, day and dl
arc to which the bill is due, and the fact Ii
lie this check is for that purpose. | {
,nt giving this advice because think it
III good, and the knowledge has come
nrn me from experience, that detcstabe
Nv. teacher who forces you TO learn whetl
no. you want TO or not Still, his lessc
nd are good and seldom forgotten, at lei
ten not by BAB
20 Recognizing Guests.
aTS Atlanta Constitution.
'eF The experienced hotel clerk does
have to be told where u guest ha
ara from. There is code Of rules rec
lefs nized by the man behind the regis