Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21

accomplishments like that the girl of
| To-Day doesn't need German NV diplo-
ma says L am proficient In drawing.
ana that means that l could take nv
place with Michael Angelo and those
/ other old buffers who went in for draw
ing and painting and that sort of
thing. But 1 don't want to take NV
| place with them. 1t would be a per-
1ect nuisance to sit up in a bingham
apron On high stool all day dashing
on colors or soiling your fingers with
ulrty crayons. l wouldn't mind making.
a lew pen and ink sketches of lovely,
big, broad shouldered men and stylish
girls, like Mr.. Christy, but anything
! beyond that l shouldn't care for in the
least, and would much rather be a fine
skater or superb dancer.
It's so tiresome of Grandpa to ask
me who Phidias was. OF course, l know
he was the man who built the pyra-
mlds or sat in his chair on the beach.
and told the waves to go back-I don't
exactly remember which-but I didn't
like to answer for somehow there is
always chance of your being wrong.
no matter how hard you have crammed
for examinations.
Ancient history isn't my forte any,
way. The things all happened so long
ago that no one is alive who remem-
bers and 1 don't see how any one can
be expected to know. One thing
never can get clear in my mind is
whether 1t was Henry the Eighth who
mad seven wives or Henry the Seventh
who had eight. But anyway. which,
ever it was, he had entirely too MANY
and l don't see what he wanted them
for. One is usually enough to take
care of.
But l do love psychology. 1 think it
Just the cutest study in the world, and
II ANYBODY begins talking it I'm right
at nome It's such lovely tumble of
words, none of them meaning any
thing. ] wonder, Grover, if they talk
psychology in society. l asked Grand
pa and he said gastronomy was much
more in his line. L don't remember hay-
ing studied gastronomy at school, but
l must have, as L studied everything
on the list. 1t was probably in the
primary department.; that's why
have forgotten. 1t seems to me it was
something about the stars and that
sort of thing. But psychology is lust
perfectly dear, and the way you spell
It, with the next to the p, is the
cunnlngest thing possible.
In view of all this. shouldn't YOU say
that l have profited by my education,
ana that the thousands spent on me
nave no tbeen thrown away? I'm sorry
for those poor old sages-their knowl-
edge was so restricted beside that of
the girl graduate of today-but L will
try to think kindly of them, as L do
of Lucy Lent.
Naturally when your diploma tells
you you know everything you do
know 1t, and whatever your grand
papa and mamma may say it is down
in black and white that you are fin
ished and perfect in all the different
branches Parents and grandparents
have such curious way of thinking
they know more than you do! If they
did know anything they must have
forgotten it by this time, they're so
awtully old. But l don't believe they
ever did know much. When they went
TO school only such things as reading,
writing and arithmetic were taught.
Cute studies, like psychology, had not
been invented.
l wonder what Uncle George meant
when he said L would now unlearn
everything and proceed to get some
real understanding. knowledge is
power. Shakespeare or Jeremy Taylor
or was it Martin Luther?-said that,
and 1t is quite true, but you never
realize it fully until your graduation
day. You really feel quite bowed down
with the weight of things you know,
like that poor old creature who had to
bear the weight of the universe on his
shoulders-what was his name? L have
forgotten-but 1t had something to do
with geography, / know.
There are just two things, however,
that l know today, and they stand out
above any beyond everything else. one
Is that my frock is going to be the
darlingest of the entire graduation
class and is sure to be winner, and
the other is that I'm goig to throw all
my school books out of the window to-
morrow.
And-oh. yes. one thing more-that
you're just the tootsiest. wootsiest little
bowwow in all the worldl
Curtain.