A Little Learning, &c.
They were learning Latin at the Girls' High School, and papa, who had a distant recollection of his own painful struggles with the tongue of Flaccus, highly approved of the innovation. "A strong study like Latin," he remarked one evening to a roomful of friends, "is just the thing to take the flightiueps oub of girls and give them that gravity and solidity their scheme of education lacks By the way, my dear," he went on, "just hand me Euphonibsa'a exercise book. I should like our friend* to stse what progives my girl is making." Then the father opened his daughter's book and read the following :— Boyibus kissibus , Sweet girlorutn; Girlibus likibus, Wanti Bomorum. Hie faith in Latin »s a - olwring influence on the feminine mind is jutt a little shaken now.
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Otago Witness, Issue 224, 28 May 1896, Page 52
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136A Little Learning, &c. Otago Witness, Issue 224, 28 May 1896, Page 52
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