Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-18

! been In demand: they always will be
and they always should be. The chill
! dren instinctively are drawn to them;
and when the right man comes along
and is likewise drawn. why, good luck
go with them. The more pretty school
ma ans the better; there can never be
too many Of them.-Biddeford Journal.
Seriously Of course our contemporary
would not advance the idea that the
mere prettiness OF a face is the kind II
| beauty that attracts the child and
holds 1t, for children are less susceptible
to mere good looks than are young
men. we assume. However, we in.
tended no disrespect to pretty school
marms. not we, and we most heartily
join our Biddeford brother in wishing
that they may multiply.
A New York paper. in an interview
with Maine sheriff hailing from
Cumberland county, credits him with a
remark to the effect that the pro-
hibitory law has caused a marked
| diminution in hard cider Tags"
| Probably the Cumberland county
sheriff never saw the proof Of that in
| terview.
The Ohio parties that came to Maine
| for deer, employed no guides and go,
! talked about by the wardens and the
newspapers object to the criticisms
| and in communications to the Bangor
| Commercial complain that they have
| been badly treated by the game war
| den who had their case in charge.
1t might seem that the management
Of the Gaiety theatre in Portland is d.
srous of regaining responsibility. or at
least a reputation for ii. The attrac.
| ton provided there now is the ship
wrecked sailor. who alone of the crew
| of the Susan Il. Thurlow lives To tell
| the tale. BY securing him the Gaicty
will have no rival.
The Bath Times shipping edition If
highly creditabe one both to III"
publishers and to the city.
The cause of better sidewalks t.
| marching on i'm Brewer. That sort If
agitation should be welcome In every
community where the need OF better
walks exists.
one of Bangor's recent sensations
ended most happily and those who
were dragging the river for the bod.
of missing young married man have
ceased opera tons. for the young man
came home. He says he secured a
chance to work out Of the city and
didn't have time To go home and notify
his wife. The letter he immediate ly
wrote on arriving at the place where ne
was to work was missent and thus the
scare started. Not hearing from his
wife he came back to Bangor To as
certain what the trouble might he.
Goudsboro correspondent of TIL
Bar Harhor Record makes a novel
complaint against sectarianism in the
seeing Methodist minister teach the
school in his district five terms in SUE
cession. Nevertheless it is not outside
the possibilities that clergyman
might be as unsectarian in dealing
with the principles of mathematics and
language. the three RS. etc. as any
one.
The women are to have opportunity
to vote in the Court Street Baptist
parish, Lewiston. There Vas. how
matter was discussed. The opponents
.,f,
lively and gently in their remarks of
opposition but as the debate waXed
warm so did they. One member said
he belonged TO several societies in
which women had voice. and l say
to you there is some kind of a fuss GO
ing all the time" But 1t has been de
cided that if this be so that parish is to
have all the fun a fuss may afford
parent writes the Lewiston Jour
nal. taking the ground that it is the
inalienable right of every parent in the
city that his children shall have the OPP
portunity to learn whatever they can
in all the branches taught in the COM
mon schools and that it is unjust 10
keep child in one grade until he has
attained q certain rank. We suppose
he would contend that though the child
may have been unable to learn to write
it should nevertheless have just the
same opportunity to write compositions
as one that had. and one that hadn't
learned the multiplication. table should
he set to work on compound fractions
The suspicion arises that several men
in Hiram, four in number. weren't judi
ciously generous with the venison
they recently brought home from a
deer hunt. Otherwise the report might
not have appeared in the paper that
they killed a little doe that had been
shot twice the day before and was
limping about with a broken leg as the
result, but which wasn't brought down
until the four great grown men had
fired eleven shots at her.