The daily sentinel., 1898-12-30
Here L. One Poor Young Man Who
Did Not Know How Wise the
Girls Are Nowadays.

The amount of information that a
girl seems to feel is necessary for her
well being nowadays is astonishing.
What was enough for her mother is
altogether unequal to her notions of
required erudition. From the present
progress and strides of her studies she
intends % 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 VIII ON
she is conversing. She is to all ap-
pearances indulging her wits to their
greatest extent during such times; even
while he is stating the tritest of self
apparent facts she is politely staring il
wonder at his kindergarten data and
sc:ence-sne is amazed at the manner in
which he remembers the occurrences
in history which stand out like the rock
Of Gibraltar, and no one not afflicted
with aphasia could be unacquainted
with.
She listens to all this and lots more
with "A demure awestricken air, but
my! how she is taking notes. How she
is mentally playing havoc with his high
sounding pronunciamentos. How dis
into what IA tattered, woebeeone frag-
ment his bundle of information has
been dessicated. If he could guess for
a moment what pity ne is awakening he
would settle his business affairs and go
to the wilds of Elkhart 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 the influence of art, and
the rise of Neoplatonism and things
about which he knows nothing when by
ii little thought, in turning the conver-
sation on the broiliug of a beefsteak, he
might throw the whole chances of vic
tory on his side.
But, strange as it may appear, there
are some young men who not only dc
not tax 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 ac-
quirements.
There is Il 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
,ssary. 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-
lation 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 indulges in what he fondly imagines
is q 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 II
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 were thus engaged. Instead
OF trying TO store his brain little he
began Immediately to pooh pooh the
thing. II" wondered audib,y whether
frozen Goldfish had anchylcsed joints
CT lightning rod for a backbone FL
nally, after a lot OF presumptions of this
kind, he 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
servation. Then he insisted that he just
must bring something. Finally an idea
seemed to strike one Of the girls. She
whispered 10 the others. Then she
looked up and said: We'll, there IS
just one specimen you might bring.
You might bring a horse"
1t only cost him seven dollars but
then he's not a Chicago
Times erald.
The army officers trunk, which is
an article of limited but regular sale in
peace times, being sold chiefly to reg
ular army officers, is a stout, wellmade
trunk of rather generous proportions,
so divided inside as to afford spaces for
both military and civilian attire. There
is a place for an officers chapeau and
one for the silk hat of civilian and
room for the different clothing, and the
trunk is large enough to admit a
sword laid diagonally. A trunk of this
sort is made not of sole leather as