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with a keeper" These evenings are in
tended to give a social tone to the school
course, but they sometimes do more than
that, and the friendships formed there
often end at the altar Said young mar
ried woman in speaking Of her boarding
school experience
Il met him." pointing to her six-foot
husband, while we were at adjoining
schools.
-We had a post Office rugged up in the
trunk of an old tree and there was a mes
senger detailed from each school to get
the letters and distribute them.
at went on for six months before it was
discovered. Afterward we met on our
walks and exchanged shy glances. Then he
came to the winter dance and was intro
duced to me with great formality by the
teacher who accompanied us on our walks
and who was absolutely blind to the fact
of our previous acquaintance.
ale was graduated a year before | was.
and we lost sight of each other. but always
cherished warm feeling for my first love,
and when we met by chance the old affair
was resumed, the intervening ones wiped
out, and 1 disproved the statement that
one never marries ones first love"
"The most amusing experience that hap
pened in my boarding school life.' said
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home and asked to see my hostess's chill
dren, having children of my own at home
of corresponding age She looked doubt
full
I will ask Fraeuein,' she said at length,
but | cannot promise
"A servant was dies patched with the mes
sage and returned with this answer: Fraeu-
ein is very sorry, but the children are at
their lessons and cannot be disturbed
Imagine that happening in an American
household or an American mother receiving
that message from her paid employee
The American boy takes more kindly to
the boarding school than the girl. 1t may
be that already the boys mind Is capable
OF greater breadth OF view than the girls
and he recognizes his coming freedom and
power in the very routine which, looked
at in a narrow way, seems only rksome.
Said a young boy recently as he stepped
from his canoe OH the shores of Lake Saranac
and gazed disparagingly at the panorama
Of Adirondack scenery stretched before
him:
YES; it's all right as scenery goes, but.
enthusiastically "you ought to see the
scenery about our school. I'm near Ashe-
VILE" he pointed to his throat in explana-
ton, "and the grounds high and there's
the French Broad River in front and a
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BROOKLYN COBBLESTONES GO.
Improved Payements Across the River
since Consolidation.

II was for many years familiar saying
in Brooklyn that "till consolidation came
the cobblestones would not go" This
saying has come true
At the time Of consolidation, Jan. I, 1893,
Brooklyn had SIS miles Of paved streets.
Of these 2sl miles were paved with cobhles.
There were no miles of granite pavement.
50 miles Of macadamized roadway, A miles
of Belgian block, 3s miles of asphalt and /
mile of brick pavement. There were a
few yards Of wooden pavement remaining
and n few feet of sandstone
During the four years since consolidation.
in 1905 to 1901, Az miles Of pavement were
laid. Since Jan. /, 1902, 100 miles have been
laid
There are now 175 miles Of cobbIestone
pavement In Brooklyn SO miles less than
at the period Of consolidation. There is an
increase Of IS miles in granite pavement
of 30 miles in macadamized pavement.
and OF 2 miles in Belgian pavement. Where
there was, at the time of consolidation,
rs miles Of asphalt pavement in Brookl YIN,
there are now 1876 miles, gain OF nearly one
hundred
Practically since consolidation the amount
of cobhlestone pavement in Brooklyn has
heen reduced 100 miles, and the amount Of
asphalted pavement has been increased
100 miles. II is a good exchange, ar every
resident OF, sojourner in or visitor TO. Brook
Ign will agree.
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and talk over our experiences. We are
obliged to report on Wednesday. although
our lessons don't begin until the follow
ing Monday. Discipline is not so severe
and we can walk and talk together and
compare notes; and then it's fine to meet
the new girls and to get the letters that
are always waiting"
Letters? Are YOU allowed to receive
all the letters that are sent you without
question:"
"Oh, dear. no; that wouldn't be right
and the convent training asserted itself.
There was a time when the girls were
allowed to receive their home letters, but
then it happened that girls we're made ill
for days through the receipt Of bad news,
death and accident, and Of course a girl
always takes those things so much harder
when she is away from home so now the
sisters read them over first
"Tell me some more about discipline.
What is the hardest thing you have to
do?" was the next question
1T seems silly, but, really, it is the ar
rangement of the curtains, You see, we
sleep in long dormitory, and at the foot
OF every bed is a window. When we re-
tire we have to open the curtain little
so we will be awakened early the next
morning. It's awfully hard, for if it were
not for those old curtains we could sleep
on and on and on"
That is the hardest cross you have to
bear?"
That, and the penances; our punish
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sisted upon reciting poetry to her. He
always seemed to be unfortunate, too,
in picking out the poems she had cried
her eyes out learning, and you can imagine
the result.
4He would get her out in boat some
beautiful moonlight night and recits
The splendor falls on castle walls or some-
thing like that, and every bit Of romance
would disappear.
"She finally got so she couldn't bear TO
see him, he recalled such unpleasant cpl
sodes-lovely sunny days with the other
girls playing and she sitting alone. or
wretched, cold, dark winter twilights. It
takes brave man to recite poetry to Z
boarding school girl. He is sure to b
hoodooed soon or late"
"One of the most pathetic incidents that
have come under my supervision as head
of girls boarding school," was the re-
mark of middle-aged woman, concerned
a girl of about fourteen whose mother had
died and whose father had married again.
The other girls were always getting letters
from home and reading them aloud, but
Nancy's father never wrote letters and
the stepmother used to ignore her exist
ence completely.
Finally, Nancy brooded over it to such
an extent that she would 20 of by herself
and write mag nary letters from an i'm.
aginary mother. Then she would bring
them and read them aloud to her school
mates, who weren't old enough to distin-
guish and supposed them genuine.
Il found one of them and sent it with a
little note of explanation to the stepmother
She was so touched by it that she came
right on to the school and from chat time
if Nancy had been her own daughter she
could have not been more thoughtful and
affectionate in her treatment Of her
If this going back to school is hard on
the girl and boy it is no less so for the pa
rent There are innumerable details Of
wardrobe which must be attended to ana
the strict regulations in regard to laLn-
dry work, pin money, the omnipotent shirt
waist, &c. Swapping the last trunk.
the tired mother says to sympathetic
friend
at is worse than getting married
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the last wall Of the whistle az 1t echoes and
reechoes amid the eternal hills is the swan
song of good times and thfulirrespon-
sibility
And this swan song is heard all over the
land. AT summer resort and at city homes
is he lamentation of the departing. Ihey
are soon to be prisoners OF despair-these
frolicsome boys and girls who have run
wild through the summer months, who have
laughed at rules and regulations, who have,
with the indifference of the young, pushed
aside every thought of the unpleasant
MOI row, and enjoyed the present moment.
PERSONALLY" said father, as he read
aloud few pages of boarding school
prospectus to IL room full Of grown ups. If
| were nv own daughter l would put my
foot down and sly wouldn't go. If she
did | would never have the heart to send
her Tank of it," and he read this pro-
gramme:
Rise at T. battle and dress,
Breakfast. $.
Study hours, to II
REGULATIONS. II to 1880.
Luncheon, IL 30 to |.
Recitation. 1880 to 1.
Study. to 5.
Now" he continued, what mature per-
son WOulu stdntl tIlaIF wv oiio Va u'7'
We'd kick over the traces in moment.
1t makes my heart ache"
1t really did If his little daughter had
come in at the psychologist moment and
brown her arms around him she would
never have been sent away from him this
autumn. That is certain
al suppose she has got to be taught
things" he remarked at length, philo-
sophIcally, but it is hard lines on lis both
She is the apple of my eye and we have
to be separated most of the year. and then
Of course, as soon "a she gets out OF school.
some fool man will come along, tell her
she is the dearest thing on earth and carry
her away in spite of my screams. I know
| did the same thing to her mother
The experience of the father and the
departing daughter is duplicated thous-
ands of times. Perhaps it is more COM
mon in New York than elsewhere, for apart
ment life is more prevalent here and apart
ment life and the proper training of children
seem an almost impossible combination.
: Says one mother:
! 1T would be worth $500 year II could
get Betty to go to bed at a reasonable hour
! but can't. We have a great deal Of COM
; pany or my husband and 60 out. In
! either case Betty refuses TO sleep.
! "If there is company she is miserable
! II she is not allowed to he with them. II
; we are going out. she must wait up to see
mamma dressed, and like as not. find her
! propped up with pillows when 1 return,
waiting to hear all about it.
What can you do with child like that!
Boarding school is the only solution pos
| sible."
Another mother with three children
tells the same tale of woe. at seems heart
less to turn the children out to grass in this
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siderable to his stock Of money.


Several men have been driving milk
wagons in the early morning hours and
harvested hay between times. One student
was head waiter at hotel at Plymouth,
Mass. Yale graduate who is an invalid
and resides near New Haven has been travel
ling through Nova Scotia and has had with
him Yale man to act as nurse and guide
A half dozen Yale men have been acting
as pabearers at funerals during the sea-
son and have found the work so profitable
that they will continue after college opens.
The Silver Bay religious conference at Lake
George attracted a score or more of neeye
Yale men and all had a successful tidm
there
One student has been making out bills Of
fare at White Mountain resort all the
-eaeon and he has been so successful that
tho leading Yale Joint" Of the town has
hired him for the coming year to make out
all its menus.
All the summer resorts from Block Island
to Kennebunkport have had small colonies
Of Yale men acting As walters clerks cooks
and general helpers.
Ii is estimated that the students of the
academic department have earned during
the year just closed about 600. Last
year thirty-seven sophomores earned $40. Oo2
and twenty-eight seniors earned $s,O67.
These figures include only those who made
reports to the Bureau of Self Help and not
all who earned part of their tuition
Besides the routine work furnished each
year for needy students during term time.
which includes waiting or table caring for
furnaces, lawns and horses, doing street
car service, clerical work and reporting.
there il a new field open this year in the line
of chauffeurs and already several Yale men
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EARNING POWER OF YALE MEN.
HARy EST REiPED BY NEEDY
STUDENTS LAST 81 MINER.
Besides Waiting AT Table They Drove MIX
Wagons and Acted as Pail Bearers.
Among Other Things Many Freshmen
10 Work Their Way Through College.

NEW HAVEN, Sept. 2s.-Ab0ut seventy
freshmen, or one fifth of the class in the
academic department at Yale this year
expect TO earn all or part OF the money
required TO pay the expenses Of their first
year in college. III the whole university ,
Prof G. l.. Fitchol of the Self Help Bureau
reports, about GOO meT viii make the eE-
perm"rt Of irving 10 support themselves
this wear for the frs time. In the aCa-
demio department the corporation has
voted pb ut $50 600 This year for scholar
ships Tor needy students, and this will be
giver out principally through the Bureau
Of Self Help
When the students left for the long vaca-
ton last June about 300 applied for work
for the summer. and Prof Kitchel is lust
getting returns of tho work done by tho
men. The long vacation is rsgarded tie
poor students golden opportunity, for the
more he earns tho the less he will have to
work for livelihood during the cDllegs
year
ONE man has reported that he earned
5000 by tutoring young man inv ashinPtoU
Tor ten weeks. Another has cared for three
young children Of n Yale professor durlr 2
She summer months and has added cor
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Have you been D. r. F. d to-day2" became
common form of salutation.


Az time wore on there came to st. Louis
various groups of more or less dist ingushed
visitors Now came deputation of citi-
zens from Texas. representing the Lone
Star agitation for representation al the
fair. They had TO he pilot ographed along
with Gov Francis so that they could carry
the picture to Austin as evidence hat they
had attended to business.
Then came a picturesque party OF jap
anese armed with commissions to do sundry
things in connection with the fair. In
the midst Of the group photographed
doomed the stalwart figure of the former
Governor OF Missouri. Next. perhaps.
was delegation from Honolulu, ousky Of
hue, squat of stature; and over the heads Of
the visitors, in the group picture. lowered
the tall Missourian
Prince Henry OF Prussia. accompanied
by gold laced naval officers and OF hers.
made his appearance, The Prince and
the president Of the exposition must he
pictured together
Last year Mark Twain was in town
Before he departed he was welded o d. r.
Francis in immortal pilot ography.
The Crown Prince OF Siam came and
conquered. Gov. Francis, two feet taller
than the little royal figure, helped to make
the picture memora bic
Mr. WI came and was caught by the
camera III close proximity to the Governor.
MIR. Wong, the Chinese Vice-C Commissioner
arrived lately and was photographed in
the same company, and Nine. Wong was
included in the group.
The Board of Lady Managers. the Ma
tional Commission. the bakers dozen of
State Governors at the dedication cere-
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little way of big artificial Lake. where
they have water tournaments. Ihere
amt place in this country can beat IT."
.You like it?"
well, sometimes it's hard" he admitted.
when get behind hand and have to make
up things, but the fellers are all right
Az a general thing it may be accepted
as q truth that -the fellers" are all right,
and boy will never object to his school
days.
An American father was asked recently
why he sent his only son to boarding
school at 30 early an age.
Cigarettes" he answered briefly NO
further explanation was due.
The boy who Is rightly placed at pre-
paratory boarding school may smoke
cigarettes, but he will have hard time
doing it. Another father explained his
sons departure in these words:
"There comes time in every cubs life
when he needs good lickin', and he needs
it often. l didn't have sand enough TO
give i. to him, so the only thing to do was
to get somebody to give it to him or to put
him where he would not need it,
There may be good reason for it. but
to the lay mind it seems odd that IN
about every place where is established a
girls school, at a stones throw, there is
school for boys Immediately erected, and
vice versa. Then come tantalizing regu-
lations which prohibit meetings.
Sometimes II the boy has known a girl
at her home he is allowed to call. On.
those boarding school calls under careful
chaperonage, with conversation stilted and
unnatural! But as the boarding school
girl remarks. .They are better than moth
ing"
Occasionally an evening dance or re-
ception is given and the boys are admitted
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way she says, -but know it Ia for their
GOOD. The apartment life in New York
u impossible for the growing child. They
have no youth.
They are precocious, mature before
they are out Of short dresses. and in after
days have no memories Of child hfe 1t
isn't by any means the happiest time OF
life when one is in 1t. but it is the happiest
to look back upon, and no one should be
deprived Of that blessing.
And, candidly She confessed, mo mother
but will admit that after the first pang OF
sepa ration Ia over she is relieved by the
knowledge that her child ia better taken
cAre of than she would be at home.
'Educat:sS Is like sickness in this re-
spect. A physical doesn't care to have
his patient cared for by one OF the family,
for he knows his regulations in regard to
diet, medicine and sleep will be subject
to the sympathy of the unframed nurse.
So, in matters of education, the parent
is too apt to yield to coaxing. to fears OF
health and to allow the child to stay at
home when she should go to school,"
The English are different from us in this
respect The English boy is sent to school
at an early age. and thereafter the youths
life is almost entirely separated from that
of the family.
Our little island is so small said one
Enplishman "that we have to prepare
ourselves for this inevitable separation.
Az soon as possible our boys 20 to the
Colonies, to the United States. into the
army and navy. and we have to prepare
them for independence and ourselves for
their absence"
The English children are educated in
the home, too. with thoroughness. Said
an American woman recently:
II was calling at an English country
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THE NIGHT BEFORE.

THE NIGHT BEFORE.
Corrupted the tear perilously close 10 be-
trayal There was an onslaught of both
sexes from the boats carriages and road.
The good-bys We're insistent and exclama-
tory
You'll write SOON"
Don't forget to send me your picture
See you at the Christmas holiday"
Give my love to Mary
The boat glides slowly from the wharf,
the companions are lined along the narrow
pier waving handkerchiefs, and the lore.
lorn schoolgirl, the first to leave, waits
amid the baggage and the deckhands until
the last glimmer of white duck and scarlet
tie fades from sight. Then. as she climbs the
compan onway YEARLY TO the upper deck,
she knows that the summer is over and that
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Exceed IN q trtnk at the outer era OF
the small VIII rf iutting into Lake George,
a girl of Fix eea gezcd dlsconsolately at the
japg ID .kyline, which looks like the per cli
marks a small boy makes on his slate Per-
hans it was the likeness of the mountain
line to h, slate and pencil drawing which
accumulated her despair
yes" she replied, in answer to the m
evti bic question. Il am going back 10
school It's all over.
She waved her hand, sunbrowned ana
calloused by oar and tennis racket, toward
the colony of hotels and cottages, toward
the ame;ly st tinted lake, the distant hills
and verdaut pastures,
All over" she again exclaimed Ana
II has been such a dear summer.
The whistle of the coming steamer in
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monies-all insisted upon Gov. Francis
being in the group when the camera man
came around

r,o,ie.o,, insisted unon Gov Francis
,no a. -, ..., 49,. ,a,,.ra man
pelne III 'he group WHEN 'i'e 'e'''e'"
came around
The most notable of all the photographs
was taken at dedication time. when for.
mer President Grover Cleveland, President
Roosevelt and David r. Francis standing al
in a row, each wearing a shining silk mao
and creased trousers, were photographed:
This picture made the champion hit OF
the series. 1t is still to he seen in many
st Louis show windows.
Now comes a delegation from fancy
county Mo, or from Posey county, Ind,
and Gov. Francis good naturally con-
sents to pose with the guests. Tomorrow,
perhaps, will come COMMITTEES from the
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have qualified themselves in this capacity.
An increasing number Of students this
year have come back to college with auto
mobiles, and Prof Kitchel expects that there
will be an opportunity for several expert
chauffeurs to earn good money this fall in
managing fractions machines and teaching
the novice To handle the vehicles
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ment, you know. for being late, talking.
bad lessons, &c, 1t doesn't take long to
use up the recreation hour, and poetry
The young girl made wry face.
"Do you mind if tell you story about
boarding school poetry? It's true; know
the girl. She was in the class two years
before.
"She was always getting into trouble,
and when tho sisters found out that she
hated poetry and never could learn it with
out perfectly awful effort, they set her
poetry penance all the time. She got to
be perfect poetry mill.
Her family wanted her to marry a dis
tant cousin and she would have fallen In
love with him If it hadn't been that he in
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-01-24
EDGEWO0l.

The fair Of the Edge~ood Casino club
closed its four-nights' run with big at
tendance last night. II having been one
OF the most successful affairs of the sort
ever held In this section.
The drawing of the various door prizes
and the closing Of the diTerent contests
were the features which attracted. and i'm
the former event but four were claimed
last night-the bcvel mirror by w. A.
Griffith; table lamp by A. r. Potter; suit
pattern, donated by Butterworth & Co..
by w \. Griffith. and a half barrel OF
flour by Mrs. Charles Boomer
The cedar yacht tender was won by J.
G. Butterworth and n pair OF shoes was
won by Mr. Waterhouse for guessing
nearest to the number Of seeds In the big
squash. The actual count was $40 and
the guess was 3l3
Some difficulty was experienced with
the big guess cake for after all the pieces
had been eaten without finding the tin
which entitled the holder TO the ring, II
was feared that someone had swallowed
IL without knowing &C. The ring will be
awarded by lot
Among the other fortunate winners
were: Mrs. e. !. Brown. who received q
doll: q. w Burch. silk umbrella: A. r..
Scattergood. trunk; =. J. Aldrich.
Morris chair; Dutee Flint. dress suit
case; John Bogie, prize game rooster;
@ " Thorar table lamp; Walter n.
Griffith. tabourct.
rne extra ar.cles were disposed on a
wheel Of fortune r the lower rooms and
all together the fair was a. great financial
success. although the accurate figures
haVc not yet been asccrtainod
At tho meeting of the thatauguan
Circle yesterdsy az The library the subject
FOR discussion was Gladstone"