The Winslow mail., 1898-06-11
THRILLED WITH KNOWLEDGE.
Here Is one Poor Young Man Who
Did Not Know How Wise the
Girls Are Nowadays,

The amount of information that
girl seems to feel is necessary for her
we'll being nowadays is astonishing.
What was enough for her mother is
altogether unequal to her notions of
required erudition. From the present
,rogress and strides of her studies she
intends 20 make it warm for all men,
Young or old, whose education has been
even in The least particle neglected.
The up-to-date girl of 1898 is too well
bred to force opportunities to obtrude
her learning on persons with wh ON
he is conversing. She is to all ap-
,earances INDUCING her wits to their
rreatest extent during such times; even
While he is stating the tritest of self
erparent facts she is politely staring ir
vvonder at his kindergarten data AMI
sc:ence-sne is amazed at the manner in
which he remembers the occurrences
n history which stand out Ike the rock
ef Gibraltar, and no one not afflicted
With aphasia could be unacquainted
with.
She listens to all this and lots more
y. " II d DIV CSNkAChCA dAls OoA
my. how she is taking notes. How she
is mentally paying havoc with his high
sounding pronnnciamentos. How dis
mayed he would be If he could only se1
into what a tatterel, woebegone frag-
ment his bundle OF information has
been dessicated. If he could guess for
q moment what pity he is awake ming he
L. Co.:
10 the wilds of E.khart and live her
nit ever after. But still though know
ing that young women are educating
themselves to the boiling point every
day, man. foolish man, Will GO on talk
ing of comets, German philosophy,
Swinburne and 4he influence of art, and
the rise OF Neoplatonism and things
atout which he knows nothing when by
q little thought, in turning the conver-
alton on the broiliug of beefsteak, he
might throw the whole chances of vic
tory Oh his side.
But, strange as it may appear there
are some young men who not only do
not talk about household duties, where
they might have some little chance of
superiority, but they actually have the
madness and folly to make light of the
twentieth century girls intellectual &C.
quirements.
There is a certain self-sufficient north
side young fellow of this description
who is acquainted with three very high
ly educated young ladies. He often
finds them together, but this is not nee
essary. He is completely outclassed by
any one of them. They can tel. when
Lord Napier invented logarithms, why
lie did it and where the world would be
to-day if he haG not done it. And after
this they can do an astronomical Calcu-
iation by this branch of mathematics
that makes him dizZier than rum punch.
He IS such vain young fellow that he
cannot or will not see this, and instead
of meeting them in open ground and
putting knowledge against knowledge
he INDUCES in what he fondly imagines
is a sarcastic vein, and jeers at what he
has not the intellect to understand. But
he tried this once too often. A few
days ago they decided that just for q
lesson they would turn his own tactics
against him.
They had just that week entered upon
the study of advanced zoology. He
dropped in upon them one afternoon
while they thus engaged. Instead
Of trying TO store his brain little he
began Immediately to pooh-pooh the
thing. H. wondered audibiy whether
a frozen Goldfish had anchylcsed joints
or lightning rod for backbone. FL
nally, after lot of presumptions of this
kind, be said laughingly that he wanted
to bring them some geological speci-
mems. He inquired which they'd have,
an elephant or an ant eater. At first
they did not deign to notice this OBJ
servat;on. Then he insisted that he just
must bring something. Finally an idea
seemed to strike one of the girls. She
whispered to the others. Then she
looked up and said: "Well, there is
Just one specimen you might bring.
You might bring horse"
1t only cost him seven dollars, but
then he's not Chicago
Times-Herald.