Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1886 — Teaching the Young Idea. [ARTICLE]

Teaching the Young Idea.

The Madrid (Iowa) Register gives the following pertinent advice to a correspondent who started out to write an account of an exhibition, and forgot to say anything about it, devoting all his energies to the preamble: “First. All well-regulated editors require to know the names of their correspondents. Suppose there should happen to be concealed abrut the person of your article a deadly weapon, in the shape of a sugar-coated slam on some sensitive-minded but hard-mus-cled individual in your neighborhood. Not being familiar down there, the editor couldn’t catch on that it was loaded. Then in a few days the sensitive fellow would come in, run the editor behind the press, and want to know ‘who wrote that blasted thing from Hopkins Grove.’ The editor would have to put his linger in the corner of his mouth, look foolish and say he didn’t know. It would be a painful scene, and when the editor came to he would swear he’d never print Another communication the author of which was too bashlul to share the responsibility by informing the editor of his or her name. “Second. Don’t use ten-cent adjectives, at least any more than you can help. Don’t you see, if you were describing a dog fight and use such words as ‘splendid,’ ‘glorious,’ ‘perfectly enchanting,’and ‘magni cent,’and then a circus should come to town and you wanted to write that up too, why, you wouldn’t have anything ’»ift to distinguish between the dog fight and the cir?, eus. No doubt the Chinese lanterns in the trees about the school house gave a very pretty effect, and the boys with the canary whistles added to it; but honestly now, you don’t believe they resembled ‘Fairyland.’ Ihe lanterns couldn’t have been any more ‘truly magnificent’ than any others of the same kind, could they ? “Third. You st irted out to write up the exhibition, and you went off into rhapsodies over the crowd, the ‘coaches’ that brought them, the trees and the lanterns, and you never even got inside of the school house at all. How about the exhibition ? Was that good? We heard from other sources that it was exceptionally so. Now, don’t be discouraged, but try again. Stick to your text. Try to get as much in little, consistently, as possible. And be frank with the editor—give him your nume next time.” . The adaptations with which plants are provided for making the most of the water that come to them in the form of rain or dew are thus classified by Lundstrom, who has made them a subject ot special investigation: Depressions in the form of leaf-cups or of grooves is the - epidermis; hair formations, in tufts or borders; hydroscopic membranes, as spots or stripes on the epidermis; and anatomical adaptations, such as water-absorbing textures and swelling glands. None of these features found in the submerged parts of ftlanta. <