The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-30
School Dresses.

Here a famous act of generosity re-
ceives a hitherto unrecorded recogni-
ton: "Sir Philip Sydney gave the las,
drop of water in his jug to a dying SOL
dier on the field Of Waterloo as was
mentioned in the Duke of Wellington's
dispatches. And here is a bit of bio
graphy: William Shakespeare was a
careless boy and poacher almost be-
fore he was a man. He did better later
on. He has written the Pilgrims Pro-
gress, Macbeth the airy Queen, and
the Wealth of Nations. He Is full of
great sentences like proverbs. So,
when any one speaks sort of learnedly
people cry out in un-Shakespeare."
Here Is an ideal definition of an in
terjection: "An interjection is a shout
or scream raised by person too sur
prised or panied or frightened to make
a sentence with Ris thoughts 1t is not
quite human language. The lower
animals say nothing else but interjec-
lions. Accordingly, ili-natured and
cross people by their interjections come
very near to beasts" Now hear youth
on summer: Summer of course Is a
very pleasant season, when it is a good
summer, and one has a country place
to live in, near the. seaside, or nice
river. Then to feel it's niceness you
must not be burdened with work.
Work is double hard in summer In
deed three times harder. 1t has its
own hardness-that is one. There is
the fatiguingness of the heat of the air
and of the broiling sun-that Is two.
Besides nobody, unless scorcher on
his cycle, wants to hustle or fag in sum-
mer-that is three The games are
quite enough for a school-boy in sum-
mer, | can tell you. If a boy plays
three matches of cricket, or rows hard
in the river thrice a week, in the after
moons of the half holidays, he Is not In
it much for writing or reading stuff for
the rest of his time. At our school we
had three half-holidays that way eve
ry week in summer Books We're a dis
gust after the hard goes at the sports,
and a sleep or a loll was more ones
due. Winter is many times jollier.
Neither work nor play wearies half so
much then. My own certain opinion Is
that summer has nothing equal to
good skait (sic) or a hearty SNOWFALL
fight. How one can eat and enjoy HIM
self in dear old winter!"
One wonders how boy could concoct
this: THE Gulf Stream is a big flow
of water. 1t starts from the Magnetic
Pole at the north end of the British en-
pire. It reverbirates (sic) back and
forward from there to the Strait of Gil
braltar and the coast of Guinea twice
and sometimes thrice a day. If you
follow it close, you find plenty of her
rings, haddocks and Gods sweeping
along in It. This stream is a kind Of
gold mine to fishing vessels But the
next boy is a real wit: "A vacuum is
nohing shut up in a box. They have
way of pumping out the air. When all
the air and everything else is shut out,
they are able to shut in moth
ing. where the air was before. Then
we have: Chemistry tells you what's
in things. For instance, we know that
a loaf of bread has in it flower (sic),
water, and salt, but chemistry would
tell you how much weight of each, and
perhaps potatoes and something else as
well. Chemistry is great on sausages
and wine Sometimes such strange
things are put in that government (sic)
puts the shopmen in Jail" a practical
youth that!