THE SCHOOL CAP.

Evening Star, Issue 7497, 16 April 1888, Page 3

THE SCHOOL CAP.

TO THE EDITOR. g lßi _The rector evidently does not seem to take any notice of the friendly hints he may have seen—or conveniently may not have seen—in your correspondence columns. On Friday afternoon, when the detentionclass was being held, the rector told the monitor to collect all the “porringers” he could find and put them in a certain lobby. At the end of the class the rector stood in this porch so that he would be able to see to whom the “porringers” belonged. Now, which is most appropriate, to call a “porringer” a school cap, a dish-clout (as “ Civis” calls it), or an ordinary tweed hat? If you turn up the dictionary you will find “porringer” a small vessel in which children eat porridge or milk. For my part, I think it would be more suitable to apply it to the school cap. The following may bo useful to boys who do not wear the cap:—(l) Wear any hat you please till you get to the gate, then take it off and do not wear anything while in the playground ; (2) if the rector asks you why you do not wear the cap, quote his own words: “I would wear the cap myself if I were younger and a little better looking,’ Neither the first nor the second part may apply, but that does not matter ; you will have had your hit at him.—l am, etc., Tweed Hat. Dunedin, April 14.