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JANUARY 11, 1905.
A SAULTE FOR GIRLS.
The January number of The
Ladies’ Home Journal devotes a
good part of the space in its
editorial page to the question of
“How a Girl Should Salute the
Flag.” The opinions of the lead
ing men in the army and navy
circles were sought. The result
shows various and interesting
methods. Gen. A. L. Mills, super
intendent of West Point Milit/ary
Academy, says: “I would suggest
that girls make a courtesy to the
flag at the moment it passes.”
General Nelson A. Miles gives a
more artistic salute. This is his,
“I do not think a military salute
would be suitable. I would sug
gest placing the right hand across
the breast with the middle finger
directed toward the point of the
left shoulder, tha head at the same
time being slightly lowered.” A
large number think that the salute
for women should be the same as
for men. Admiral Dewey is of
that opinion as well as “Joe”
Wheeler. Robley Evans thinks a
courtesy very effective. General
Fitzhugh Lee is summoned from
the South and gives his unique
but chivalrous salute, “I think an
appropriate salute for a girl to
make to the flag would be to stand
‘Attention!’ and kiss her right
hand.” General Fredrick Grant
favors simply bowing the head.
Admiral Schley’s method is per
haps the most sensible as well as
the most effective. He speaks as
follows: “I believe a salute b}*-
mothers and daughters of our land
should be made with the right
hand on the heart, and the head
reverently bowed; the reason be
ing that the heart is the home of
love, respect and reverence—the
seat of all that is purest, highest,
noblest, best in our nature. With
the right hand placed over the
heart and the head reverently
bowed in homage to the sj’mbol
which guards the home they
honor, and the modern Knight
protects,would seem to me to bring
the salute to the flag made by each
into that happy accord of strength
and gentleness.” With these var
ious methods at hand we see no
reason why the American girl can
not select a salute which will do
honor to “Old Glory.”
A BOY AGAIN.
“I’d like to be a boy again, without
a woe or care,
With freckles scattered on my face
and hayseed in my hair.
I’d like to rise at 4 o’clock and do a
hundred chores,
And saw the wood and feed the hogs
and lock the stable doors.
And herd the hens and watch the
bees and take the mules to drink,
And teach the turkeys how to swim,
so that they wouldn’t sink;
And milk about a hundred cows and
bring the wood to burn,
And stand out in the sun all day and
churn and churn and churn;
And wear my brother’s cast-off
clothes, and walk four miles to
school,
And get a licking every day for
breaking some old rule.
And then get home again at night,
and do the chores some more,
And milk the cows and feed the
hogs, and curry mules galore;
And then crawl wearily upstairs and
see my little bed,
And hear dad say : ‘That worthless
boy—he isn’t worth his bread!’
I’d like to be a boy again—a boy has
so much fun!—
His life is just a round of mirth,
from rise to set of sun.
I guess there’s nothing pleasanter
than closing stable doors,
And herding hens and chasing bees
and doing evening chores.”
—Galveston News.
THE M.' E. LABORATORY.
Some of the senior M. E.’s have
gone into the M. E. laboratory !
Wouldn’t that jar your constitu
tion? , Now, really, wouldn’t that
take the place? You have heard
how the smart boy got around his
teacher’s north pole question by
telling him that imaginary men
could go to an imaginary pole. But
here we have a pure case of real
men going to an imaginary place !
How can it be done? I say real
men—every one of them are real,
are they not? I say imaginary
place, for where is the M. E. labo
ratory?
Some day when you have time,
take a stroll through the M. E.
building. Go through the joinery,
the wood turning, the iron turn
ing, the blacksmith shop, and see
if you can find an M. E. labora
tory. Then go to the old black
smith shop and tell us what you
see. Then go into the turning
room again, go by the engine,
leave the planer to your left, and
after having passed the miller be
fore you get to the shaper turn to
the left, enter the door and tell us
what you see. That is what they
call the M. E. laboratory ! Think
of it, a laboratory !
But let me tell you what they
are going to do. Those boys who
are through with the iron work are
going to make a laboratory. Those
boys who are still working in iron
will assist them as soon as they
get through, and with a little help
from the state, both pecuniary aid
and advice, mostly pecuniary, we
are going to have an M. E. labora
tory.
The following was handed to the
editor by some one who had found
it on the campus: Mr. Editor, please
let me know in your next issue what
we, the September fish, must call
the Xmas fish. Respectfully, V. W.
King.
SCORE ONE FOR YOUNG GOULD.
Kingdon Gould, the eldest son of
George Gould, has raised a commo
tion in the school which he is at
tending. He must be something
like sixteen years old, and, judging
from the newspaper reports, is a
member of the freshman class. He
seems to have imbibed the old-
fashioned idea that a boy went to
school to study and improve his
mind, and that the fact that he be
longed to the lowest grade in the
school or college did not deprive
him of any personal rights, or
give the members of any other
class the right to subject him to
any trespass or indignity. He did
not see any reason why he should
be pulled about over the campus
by his ears or his heels, or be
tossed in a blanket, or be strapped
with a strap like a convict, simply
because such barbaric usage had
pre% r ailed aforetime .in the school.
Such process of initiation seemed
to him, as it does to every man
who possesses a proper sense of
decency and regard for the rights
of others, to be humiliating and
brutal, and an outrage upon the
highest and most sacred rights of a
free born gentleman; therefore
when the sophomores gathered to
seize and haze him in the tradi
tional brutal way he declined to
submit to the indignity, and in
order to resist overwhelming num
bers he drew a pistol.
At the sight of it consternation
arose in the ranks of the hazers.
They were possessed of that meas
ure of courage which nerved two
score or more of them to jump on
a single boy and inflict humiliat
ing and painful indignities upon
him, and call it hilarious “fun”
(for them), but before the gleam
of a pistol in the hands of a young
fellow possessed of^fchat pride and
courage which ever adheres to a
gentleman, they scattered like
mice before a lion, and with “gall”
far in excess of their courage com
plained to the faculty against
young Gould because he had dared
stand upon his rights and resent
unlawful and inexcusable assault.
The hazers were astounded and
wildly indignant that their right(?)
to kick and cuff a freshman at
pleasure should be disputed.
The old story is told of a little
boy who complained to his mother
that his brother “hollered every
time he hit him on the head with
a hammer” fits the case exactly.
The sophomores complained be
cause young Gould would not sub
mit to be treated like a Russian
serf might be treated by a grand
duke. His act of drawing a pistol
was pronounced “cowardly,” and
the hoodlums who were eager to
assault him declare he will be
ostracised and that he can get no
class honors. They will have noth
ing to do with a fellow who has
the manhood to resent insult and
indignity. The cplleges over this
country need a few more Kingdon
Goulds.
The true gentleman always re
gards the rights of others. He is
considerate and kind. He finds no
pleasure in humiliating others and
inflicting indignities upon them,
and it is a part of the mission of
colleges to train up gentlemen,
and the sooner the brutal custom
of hazing is abolished the better it
will be.
If moral suasion and threats of
expulsion do nonstop it, a six-
shooter will. Its use should be a
dernier resort, but if used a few
times hazers and their brutal
traditions will both soon dis
appear. It is to be hoped young
Gould will keep his pistol.—Hous
ton Chronicle.
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