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

UlVUVltOlULNED tNii LILY
Some Facts, Serious and Frivolous, OF
Interest to the People Of Montpelier
and Vicinity.
"I'd like to join" | heard man
saying to another its a good thing
and d like to belong to it, but there
are so many societies l belong to now
that the dues are getting burdensome''
When l looked into the matter lit
tie l found that Montpelier is a great
field for the elmer" There are nearly
forty societies listed in the latest edi-
ton of the Montpelier Directory, and
this takes no account of such organi-
cations as The Club. the Woman's
Club, the hospital aid and various
church organizations. So there are
between fifty and sixty such organic
ations in the place and 1t Is not easy
to fix a meeting night for dozen
men which will not conflict with the
regular engagements of some of them.
And il the various whist clubs, which
are active in winter, were taken into
account the number of societies would
reach close to hundred,
A gentleman never parts his coat
tails when he sits down, is a dictum
that was in vogue fifty years ago or
so. Has the dictum been repealed or
does the idea which prompted it apply
only to one sex? l notice that women
wearing long outer garments are very
careful on sitting down to arrange
them so that the tails shall not be
crumpled
When did Cancels Hump first re-
Ceive that designation? And why? 1t
is we'll known that the mountain was
originally called by the French lie
Lion Couchant, the Crouching Lion, a
better descriptive term than that by
which it is known today. In Thomp-
sons Gazetteer published in 1924 it is
referred to in every instance as Cam
els Rump, but in one place (page 92)
the author asks in foot note: why
not Cancels Hump" In the later
edition it is always called Cancels
Hump and on page "A of part III,
Thompson says: This mountain is
often enormously called Cancels
Rump."
Who made the change, and for what
reason? Does the mountain look any
more like the hump than the rump of
a camel? Or was it originally called
the hump and did Thompson err when
he called it rump? Or again, did
Thompson himself make the change
which he had suggested in the early
edition OF his work?
The ignorant men who framed the
constitution of Vermont declared:
"a competent number of schools
ought to be maintained in each town,
for the convenient instruction Of
youth mot poor YOUTH and one, or
more grammar schools to be incor-
ported, and properly supported, in
each county in the State
They said not a word about the
maintenance of poor houses. They ap-
pear to have believed that education
was uuby VI thc OIdtt anu llSul
of the citizen. Now, more than CEN
fury later, we are pointed to the Eng
lish idea, that the people of family,
those who can afford it, should send
their children to private schools;
that the instruction afforded by the
State is good enough for the common
folks, for those who can't afford any
thing better and ought to give thanks
for what they get though they pay
taxes in larger proportion to their
holdings than those who can afford
to patronize the private schools.
One of the rakers at the meeting
Thursday mig discussing the mat
ter of site &C. a new High School
put forth the proposition that the
High School WAS for those whose par
ents could not ford to send them to
an academy or college, which, carried
to its logical conclusion, means that
the public schools are an adjunct to