A Schoolboy on "Tubbing"

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3491, 22 April 1890, Page 2

A Schoolboy on "Tubbing"

The extract which follows is the latter portion : of a Third Standard lad's essay on " Cleanliness," quoted in Longman's Magazine:—" Do not rfflT go and say that you are feared of " making yourself clean, just becose it is cold and it hurts to get the dirt off, or becose the suds get in your eye. For when you ave clean people do not edge away from you, never : mind about your clothes.buUbey say unto you like our teacher that it is next to godlyness. Bo thankful unto him becose your mothers oan afford soap, and becose they make you use it. Also when your mother puts her finger down your coat-neck afore breakfast, and peeps to see if there'i any blaok there, and then sends you back to the sink again to wash yourself better, say unto her, yeß mother, also smiling. On Saturday nights say also unto her, mother don't forget to get ray bath-tub ready for me, and a new piece of Boap, for I love to wash myself "course of clean- -; liness for it is next to godlyness. not be 'saino as them there '.'..' and Amorikens, and Ingoos,'which just splashes their faces with water and no'soap, and never gets inside of ,V, a tub, only paddling about bits of **P rivers. When you say to a'dirty boy "Dirty Dick wants the etiok," only say it about once, bo. as he can't say as you are wicked, Say unto him, look at the thoteful cat which spits on its pores just to get a bit of lathee for a fair start, and then wipes its i nose, and into its eyes, also behind i its ears, not counting- over. Then • say unto him as it will actsliellj liok . itself Ythere it can't get its pores, 1 rather than be itching anywheres ' round. Tel! him to look at the necks i of masters and superintendents and i proachers, and ho will never find a • ring, irhioh is always a sine as you have not gone far down.

The World's Fair of 1892. Tlio city of Chicago lias teon selected as tbb site of the great Exhibition to bo hold in 1892 to com* menionte llio four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, Sbtting aside the rival claims of Now £jA York, St. Louis and Washington, may bo doubted whether, oil things '.." considered, the decision of the United States House of Kepresentativea is not the best that could have been made. Chicago is the most striking of thoße western towns which have • sprung into cxistenco within the last fifty years, Its situation is admir- . ably central, being easily, reached by rail and water, The energy and business capacity of its citizens bare made it the most essentially characteristic of all American cities, and its wealth has increased in a ratio far beyond anything knowa iu the world's history, In addition to these strong and definite claims, Chicago possesse, an equable climate, never so hot as Bt Louis, and often quite as cool as New York. It. owes its growth and progress to the remarkable development of the railroad lines focussing it as a centre with every state and oity of the Union, and with tbo Dominion of Canada. Cbioago is head quartets of the grain and cattle trade of the immense region between Lake Michigan and the Kooky Mountains, and it is the home of industrial establishments and manufactories outnumbering those even of New York and Philadelphia, Taken, therefore, as the type of oity '" "S in which all true-bom Americans must feel a just pride, the selection of Chicago for the commemorative exhibition of 1892 will be endorsed by a'l civilised nations,

& Persistent Admirer. The other day in tbo Melbourne City Court., the popular \ ritna donna, Miss Nellie Stewart, summoned a too persistent adtniror, He was a man named Eobert Beattie, and the summoiia accused him of lollowing Miss Stewart and causing her to fear that he intended to do her some bodily harm. Miss Stewart did not appear, in Court, but was represented by her' father, who explained to the Bench » that the accused followed her like a fa shadow. It made no difference c '' whether she walked, rode, or drove, ' he was continually beside her. If she stayed in the house, he leant up against the outside wall, or gazed into the back yard from a neighboring house, which he rents for that particular purpose. She even tried visits to the other colonies as a means of getting rid of him, but without effect.. He always turned up at tho most unexpected time and. place. ; He had.never been actually rude • to her, but she was afraid that if his vagaries were not checked he might do bet'sop injury.' Peteo- ' thfe-iktytat 1m WWW '%*