The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-07-05

the Inside Inn, the only hotel within the
enclosure, and when aroused at o'clock
A. NJ on Wednesday morning by the
call of fire, their erergy in DOMINIC their
morning attire. and its variety and COM
pietencss, is said to have been striking,
although somewhat unprofesslonal. A
stately college president was satisfied to
move on without his stockings; bloom
ing maiden looked especially charming
in her kimona; an excited young teach
er rushed from the hotel without her
purse, which she never reco vered; another,
not unknown 20 Hartford teachers, with
that degree of care characteristic of her
daily movements, attended to all the
mnutiae of her morning robing, ard
then rushed from the building without
her gold watch; but the dignlied New
England professor who has been accimat-
ing himself to Hartford for the past two
years, asserts over his signature the un-
truth of the rumor that he declined to
leave the building without his morning
shave and additions. The queen of the
corps of Maryland teachers found sheet
a much more satisfactory covering for
her baggage than a trunk, and in short,
the corps generally demonstrated that a
fire drill among teachers is at times quite
as necessary as that among pupils. But
all is well that ends we'll After two
hours blaze in the early dawn, during
which the corps would have sold their |
interest in the hotel for a nickle, they re-
turned safe to its portals and sought |
their scanty morning meal
Superintendent Albert S Cook, of Bal |
timore county, but formerly of Hartford,
was elected president for the coming
year. and it is confidently believed that
at the end of his term, the teachers asso-
citation will place in the presiding chair
for the first time, Maryland's greatest
female teacher.
Farmer, Give Your Boy Chance.
DEAR EDITOR:
By the time your paper of this week
reaches US the GLORIOUS Fourth" will be
an event of the past; the one day of the
year when the small boy and his fire
crackers are much in evidence But |
wonder how manv of our farm boys have
been allowed to celebrate Too many of
our farmers seem to think that boys are
made for work and work only. In the
cities the children have leisure and oppor-
tunity to visit the parks and places of
amusement. Not so with children on the
farm; they not only have to work all
day, but do chores an hour or so after
wards. A request to go to the neighbour
ing town to hear the band or join the
merry-makers is often answered by curt
refusal or the information that the work
cannot be neglected l am not meaning
that farmers children always have a
harder time than other children, but l
do mean that they should have more
pleasure. Take halliday sometimes for
fishing, picnic, or to visit some place of
interest in the county. The holidays
should always be observed, if only with
some innocent amusement after the DAYS ,
work is done. Think the children would ,,
enjoy some cake. ice cream, fire crackers.
etc? Try it! Some trouble you say? {
Suppose it is, it may be the means of
keeping your boys on the farm.
Many a man in after life has looked
back to his boyhood days on the farm
with horror and wondered how he lived {
through them. Others have called them
the happiest days of their lives, and have
come back to farms of their own after l
years of struggle in the cities. Which :
class will our own boys belong to, neigh
boz? Think it over
OBSERVER. (
STREET., Md. July /.