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Show THE OPENING OF THE SCHOOLS. Tho school boys and girls have the right of way again in the streets. Boys and girls with swinging satchels, dainty girls and boisterous boys, going and coming, boys shouting, girls chatteringthe chat-teringthe leaven which leavens the whole lump of society, which keeps men civilized, which reconciles weary women to life. How clear eyed they are, those urchins, .how confident are they that no mistakes will be made when they have charge of things; what hopes they are nursing, what dreams of triumphs yet to come are theirs. Sisyphus rolling the ever-returning stone was not ,V. more confident of reaching the Elysian fields at last than are they of the conquests they are to ' , ! mako. And who knows? There may be Morgans t j 1 1 and Goulds and Ericssons and Edisons and Emer- ' ' sons and Sheridans and Shermans and Clays and - Calhouns in embryo in the company. One feels ' an awe of them as they troop by, for who can 1 estimate the possibilities of those opening souls? j They have the right of way. Let them swing I ' their satchels; let them whistle and whoop; let f; their morning be sunny for the heat and the bur- h ft den is just beyond, care and toil and heartaches K will come soon enough; le.t them shout now and t ' : be glad. ,' i 1 " |
