The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

poor, for those who can afford moth
ing better. !
Being a New Highlander, with more
than one generation of New England
ers before me, totally and entirely
dissent from the proposition.
The county grammar schools, which |
the old Vermonters thought ought to /
be established, and for the mainten-
ance of which they set aside lands in
every township they granted, have be-
come the high schools of today. They !
are supported by tax on all the peo-
pie and are for the use of the people. !
If those who can afford to choose to
send their children to other institu-
lions that is their privilege, but it
does not warrant an assumption on
their part that the public schools are
only for the poor.
Not only do the towns maintain their
primary and secondary schools, but the
State aids them in doing that and
also aids in the support of the col
leges. Norwich University. Middle
bury College and the University of
Vermont all receive aid from the
State, not for the poor alone but for
all.
When one goes outside of New
England and New York the idea is
carried to a logical conclusion. The
State university is State institution
in fact as well as in name. The best
instruction the State can afford is
open to every child, rich or poor, from
the kindergarten to the college. The
university is as free as any other
school -. Sm-v~=~'
Education is gaining Culture is ex-
panding. The tastes of the people are
being raised If you have any doubt
of that look at barber shop litera
ture for example. 25 years ago, even
less the staple reading of the barber
shop was the Police Gazette. There
were a few patent medicine almanacs,
with stale jokes, that remained until
weekly newspaper and an occasional
copy of Puck. Today any well regu-
lated barber shop will have at least
one daily paper, some high class week
ly like Golfers or the Saturday Ev-
ening Post, Puck, Judge or Life, per-
haps all three, and one or more of the
popular magazines
Why will a man persist In bring
ing a half smoked cigar into an as
semblage where smoking is not per-
mitted? | visited one of the moving
picture theaters the other night and
before | had been there five minutes
became conscious of an offensive
smell. A smoker myself, it took but
a minute to identify it and minute
or two more to locate it. A man sat
near rne with a half smoked cigar
in his fingers The ceilings of these
theaters are low and good ventilation
is hardly possible, which makes the
offense of dead cigar all the worse.
Does a man hang on to such stub
and endure the foul smell of it and
offend his neighbors for the sake of
economy? If not, why does he do it?
What is Tie correct word to de-
scribe the directions for making a
pie or 4 punch" asked friell, re
ceipt or .'eciI g? Receipt" ans
wered. Perhaps so,' said he, but l
notice that most people use recipe
in conversation. and l find thai form
more frequently used in the houEe-
hold columns CT newspapers.
Of course newspaper usage ought
to settle the question, but to satisfy
myself l looked up what Eliezer Ed
wards, that well known authority on
the use of words. had to say, and
found this:
"A receipt is written or printed
direction for mixing or compromising
certain materials with view to the
PRODUCTION of something: it may be
AN article of food a compound for
personal or household use, or a medi-
cine. he word recipe is only pro-
perry used medically and it means
din ecticns for taking"
This appears to settle the question
between those two words, but neither
OF them is just what is required and
the English language ought to fur
nish better one.
Cur great trouble with the ordinary
use of English is that we try to make
one word perform too mary duties
Dickens called attention to that when
he satirized the American use of the
word fix" The vocabulary of most
people is very limited or they are too
lazy mentally to make use of it. Eng
lish affords a rich choice of words of
delicate shades of meaning and there
is no need of twisting a word out of
its power and original sense where
some other can be used to express
ones meaning.
Though there are more than a hun
dred associate members of the Brooks
Grand Army post, only eight of them
marched with the post to ST. Angus
tines church on Sunday to listen to
the splendid and stirring address of
Father Walsh. These associates are