Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-19
THE MISSING LINE.
Instance Of the Smart Country Schoo
Boys Brightness.

Boys Brightness.
Oes incident on ihs Elsctrics- Tender hsart.
~ Wheel Women.
| 1t was Friday, the day OF original COM
positions in rural district school, as
ing in this city. Each scholar had to
memorize his or her production. A little
girl with blue eyes and sandy hair lisped:
The dawning shafts of light came out
| To greet the larles refrain,
And every gladdened heart sang out
Then she stopped. A blue-shirted urch-
In raised his hand and snapped his fin
gexs,
'sWhat is 1t. Bobby asked the teach
er.
~ know It."
Know what?"
''rhe line she forgot"
'.You do?" said the teacher In surprise
what is it?"
Prompt as rifle shot came the answer
| that completed the verse:
ITO - with Spain!"
Woman Is not always the one with
porclne instincts on electric cars, as many
revilers of the sex have endeavored to
have us believe. There was an example
OF gailantry on the part of a young lady
on an electric car the other evening that
should have struck the men upon the car
With force. She was bright, fair young
damsel. She wore one of those straw
hats with fluffy yelling ali over It, pink
cheeks and smile that hurled defiance
at all the ordinary trials and tribulations
of life. She was the picture of charming
youth and health. Every seat in the car
was crowded and several stood up. The
car stopped and an old man with tremb-
ling limbs and a back that the weight of
years had bent climbed weakly aboard
He looked the car over with pitiful de-
spair. The men glanced at him and
| turned away again to laugh and joke or
took at the scenery. The women as a
rule went on with their gossip and sight
seeing. This young lady. however, was
the grand exception. She saw the old
mans predicament, and with a sympa-
thetic smile at him and a look Of armor
piercing contempt at the men jumped
from her seat and helped him along the
running board to the vacant place. Then
she stood up. Seats were offered her at
once, but she spurned them all with a
superior scorn that was almost majestic.
None dared to smile and more than one
felt an almost irresistible desire to ap-
plaud. But they didn't.
(which way shall we drive?' he asked
after he had made dash to the front of
the house, taken her into the buggy, and
made a band-wagon turn in leaving
II have no choice. Anywhere you like
1t is enough for me to ride
but you surely have some preference"
"None whatever. Anywhere. You can't
go amiss.'
Il don't care to decide and it will add
to my pleasure to drive you where you
would find the most enjoyment. Please
don't hesitate to make a selection"
Really. now. have none. 1 mean it.
Please yourself
"Pshaw! I like to see a young woman
with some mind of ,i her awn. If you have
| any choice say so.
II have said, and have mind enough
of my own not to change. I'll be best
satisfied to go where you like. Fix the
route and go ahead"
Il prefer to go where you like, and it
seems to me, we are wasting a good deal
of time"
ION. no. The horse is jogging right
along. We're riding, and I'm always
happy when I'm riding"
Twill you tell me where we shall go?"
II couldn't think of deciding it,
Then the whole discussion was gone in
to again, with the result that they drove
around the same square for two hours
and then awakened to the fact that it
was time to so home.
"DO you know why cycling makes me
unhappy asked an apparently sane
| woman. Because 1t obliges me to run
over so many ants. You may laugh II
| you will and GAIA me absurd, but / am
| sure that the rubber tires have added "a
new terror to thousands of little Great
ures who work SO busily in every country
| road Perhaps l am particularly sensi-
| tive because 1 am fond of watching these
little workers. I could always sympa-
thize with poor La Fontaine, who for
got to attend the kings dinner party be-
cause he was attending an ants funeral
l am getting hardened gradually and shut
my eyes now when l see IA poor grass
hopper or ant in front of my wheel. But
at first felt like a woman on a jugger-
| naut. Every morning I take a spin out
side the city on certain road.
encounter squirrel think he knows
am due and waits for me. He stands up
and 'begs' in the middle of the road. l
swerve to the right and he hops also to
the right. Then 1 cut across and he
makes great show Of being frightened