The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-22
FRUITS OF OUR
 nzO.D. EI2N EDUCATION


When 3 sacaooIboy, in answer to an exam nation Csesrion. wrote, The u~aFs is the nnuth-orGan of the peo- g-e" h. might not have sad what he -1-raI- or l.uow-a exactly what he did moan. hut he furnished q good text to- 2n article on modern journalism. However, uur present theme is not modern journahs1-l. rut schooIboy "al schoolgirl how CTS. products of sI7a confusion tor c1IiSLon) of ideas as the quotation eXempliaes.
 Let us, to begin th, look over the Eapers of the class in general history. ..c learn from so doing:
 "Romu-us obtained the first citi- z~1s of Rome hy opening a lunatic -,sEIur."
 "Pompeii was destroyed by an ruPtion of sa-iva from the Vatican D There were no Christians among '1e early G#uls, they were mostly aEyyers''
 In mythology we have the follow ing:
 Achilles was dipped in the river ticks 10, make him normal"
 The Csorgons were three sisters hat lived in the islands of the Hes 9eEides. somewhere in the Indian Ocean, They had long snakes for hair tuslls for teeth and claws for nails, and they looked like women. .nly more horrible"
 The class in English History fur nishes some interesting material for his collection:
 The chief clause in the Magma 32rta was that no free man should put to death or he imprisoned ..-thcUt his own consent"
 was order without the consent Of Parliament" It was said of William Rufus that p never smiled aga ', He did this Ter he was shot by an arrow with apple on his head
 The attempts at colonization in .iza heth's reign were that Raleigh -0ught smoking into England and a bucket of cold water thrown B him, and Drake discovered pota- @s round the world and planted eIn in Lancashire"
 American history on several counts
 quite as interesting as English.
 In the civil war the colonists had .a deal with vicious characters. and
 Ink this is why this is called the il war, because after the war the .:-erent races of people were more ..-.,:zed-"
 "Georg was settled by people who d been executed"
 Tn 1920 the Pilgrims crossed the "ean and this is known as Pilgrims ].: nyress.'
 The reason Taft was not elected a 1912 was that the Republican party parated him.
 From the history papers we derive atious bits of biography:
 Queen Elizabeth rode white .orse from kenilwortb through Gov 0rry With nothing on, and Raleigh ~ered her his cloak"
 Benjamin Franklin produced cleo -.l-ity by rubbing cats backward-'' When Cicero delivered his oratiou he was 2 prefix
 Andrew Jackson was called old Hickory because when he was d boy was a Htle tough
 George Washington married Mary (ur1is and In due tIne became the Elther of hls country
 LIncoin had a woman make him a suit of homespun from rails which he had split They were hickory rails, hence hickory shirts
 The PuritaDs drove Roger Will iarns out of Massachusetts because he would talk about God"
 Biographical notes are also deriya- lie from the papers in English Htera- -ure and other subjects:
 Shakespeare founded As You L5ke It' on a book previously written by Sir Oliver Lodge"
 'Tennyson wrote Tn Memoran- durn-'
 Ben Johnson is one of the three highest mountains of ScotIand-'
 George Eliot left a wife and chil- Licn to mourn his genii-'
 Civics and civil governments form an important field of schoolboy knowledge:
 T don't know anything about the Constitution as l was born in Kan sas.'
 The spoils system is the place where spoiled things and waste are kept The Board of Health has large IF taken the place of this"
 An ex-post facto law is one that Etyes officers a right to go to foreign countries to get criminals, dead or alive. and take them back to the place where the crime was committed. s law where the crimes of the