The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-10-08
FROM OLD ENGLAND.
Amusing Essays Written by English
Children of Bygone DAYS.

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corning English history are euShriued
in the educational exhibits Mt the Franco
British exhibition.
The most amusing are To he found in
the ESSAYS written by the scholars at
the I'icldcn demonstration school con-
no,tcd with Manchester university, who
lave u little corner all 10 themsryc, ia
the exhibition.
An essay upon the condition of Eng
land in 400 gave sOue of the young
etcrs a chance 10 let their imagination
run riot. one young hopeful, aged 1919,
wrote:
The very rich lived in grandeur and
hypocrisy, wasting as much money on
dress rs would cothe the poor of this
world and the next.
No sympathy with the Parsons.
These hard-hcaded youngsters have no
sympathy with the parsons of hygDuG
days, for, says one:
In 400 the religious condition ut Eng
land was oven worse. although there
were NO pastoral wrnngl"~ over the mcr-
It's OF the licensing bill. The clergy had
no interest in anything except, sad to
say. drink and sport.
Equally candid ~ u third who asks;
What did the purSuu dO in HOO lie
went to play gplf or some such game.
and threw car" and the church tn The
winds.
Bad Roads
The parsons were not the only direc.
ton in which reform was needed, says
young Manchester:
The roads, like the people, were very
bad, but in different way.
The streets were never sWecped. and
80 what did not 70 down the drains
stayed where il was.
Oliver Cromwell was no hero to see
ton of the lads, one of whom gives this
pen-picture of the f'TOTCCtOr;
lie wore a plain cloth suit most likely
made hy country tailor. His linen was
very plain and not very clean. He was
a good sized man, with IL red, swollen
face.
Cromwell maintained strict discipline,
and if a man swurc he had to pay him
tWupcrCc.
New Use for Carlyle.
Asked To describe Carlyle'~ Heroes
aud Hero Worship one candid young
Strr sums it M thus;
Being book of truths it is not very
interesting for "a boy but il may be Il
valuable addition to a collectors book
case.
The whole class got onto treachcrous
ground when they were asked 10 con-
trnst Give with Warren Hastings, \
1i-year-old student, referring TO Gives
outbursts of temper, wrote:
Give had attacks of distemper and to
get easy he took opium. Hastings did
not get uneasy, kut kept quiet all the
time
\ pleasant sidelight upon the char
actor nt Hastings Is thrown by the lad
who wrote!
Asaph- ul-Dowlah paid Warren Hast
ings an immense sum 10 lie low and
say nuilin' while he calmly robbed de-
tcnsolcSs' ladies,
Youthful Logic
Waiting of the scene ut the trial of
Hastings, a lad, dramat ically describing
the entrance OF the procession into the
court, says:
Last Of all in the procession came
Warren Hastings, the most important of
| the whole lot, for If there WAS no Hast
| inss tlere certainly would have been no
| trial.
Unfortunately for the scholar the
teacher. in cold, red ink. adds the pain
! full truth that Hastings was not in
the PROGRESSION"
| Finally. II promising youth adds that
George Eliot, the great authoresS," was
present ut the trial.
Perhaps the geu of the series is the
comment of one os the teachers Your
opening sentences are too clumsy. The
phrases are too much like those of Ma
cauley.'
Views on Pitt.
Pitt was evidently admired by some
!of these Manchester children-thouch
Lord RoScbery as an authority on Pitt
would probably be surprised ut some Of
the things they have discovered. For
instance:
Throughout all his life Pitt did work
for the people, in fact he was what NE
should now call labor member.
once Pitt rose from his seat he could
not refrain from making a speech.
The essays of the London scholars do
not quite reach these heights. but ons
innocent little girl from the Hugh Myd
delton l.. c. c. school remarks:
Our servant is small. but very honest
London Leader,