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Volume XVII

Little White Pinafore

Did you meet a little maid down the street,
Busy and smiling, trim and neat,
Her figure winning with a baby charm,
A basket of lunch on her small right arm,
Tripping along in the elm-shade cool?
It was little White Pinafore going to school.

Till dawned this wonderful day of spring
She's been "tied to her mother's apron string"-
The family beauty and pride and joy;
Just a bewitching human toy;

Her life without law or lesson or rule-
Now little White Pinafore's gone to school.

"My darling," I murmured, "my precious sweet," As I buttoned the shoes on her restless feet, In the untried pathway eager to go, "Poor mother will miss her baby so!" "Don't cry," she said, with a birdlike coo, "I will hurry home and take care of 'oo."

I put the doll and the toys away

When the wise little woman left her play;
And I go about with a touch of pain
Till my pretty scholar shall come again.
O, what shall we do on that dismal day
When little White Pinafore goes to stay?

-Mary F. Butts.

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DR. P. M. MAGNUSSON

SOCRATES

With the age of Pericles, the Hellenic civilization reaches its high watermark as a civilization. Its influence as a world-power culminated with Alexander, but as an organized system of institutions, the Hellenes were then already fast decaying and far decayed.

Just as it began to be noticeable that the shadows were lengthening over Hellas, just as it began to be patent to the eye of the wise that Hellas had outgrown herself and that to-morrow the wine of to-day would burst the bottles of yesterday, a curious character appeared on the streets of Athens. He was almost grotesquely ugly, this loafer; but as is very common with homely people, he possessed the most perfect manner and address. Dreamy Aristocles, the melancholy youth with the broad brow, giddy and gifted Alcibiades, plain and practical Xenophon, none of these

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could resist the personal magnetism of this Athenian corner grocery attraction. There was always a lively, chattering crowd of young bloods around the old tramp. Look at them! Not surprisingly handsome, but with an indescribable artistic touch to all that they have and do. Listen to them! How the least vulgar accent or wayward motion or excessive utterance would grate on these refined ears! Here the art of conversation has reached its consummation. Polite society can go no further in perfection of form. But we need have no fear for our old friend. His broad mouth never utters a false syllable. In fact, he does not say much, only questions, and lets his young listeners display their Attic elegance in answering. But those strange, deep eyes of his have a magnetic fascination, and no fickle Athenian crowd can let their attention wander from the subject while he is looking. at them. The smile on the thick lips, while always perfectly urbane, becomes sadly sarcastic at last as the eloquent answers grow more and more entangled, and somehow, the common result of every such encounter is that at last the inquisitive loafer alone has anything to say. Then a strange severity and sublimity passes over the good-natured face, a piercing glance slips from his eyes, and he finishes the discussion with a few crisp, steely words which from very awe the bystanders cannot refrain from admitting as final. Then with perfect urbanity the ungainly figure takes leave of that crowd. He has pressing business at the next street

corner.

Many a young man is charmed by the old fellow, and attaches great importance to every syllable that falls from his lips. Not that they understand him-no one, perhaps, but the Broad-Browed Aristocles (Plato) does that-but as true Greeks they love the perfect cadence of his voice, his picturesque manners, and the trimmings of wit with which he adorns his brief sayings.

The older and wiser inhabitants of Athens do not on the whole like this fellow. To begin with, he is unintelligible, and that is a mortal sin to the Hellenic mind. He speaks of some inconceivable something called virtue. Just as if beauty and truth were not enough. Talks of Athens, too, as if she were a human being, and says he is bound to follow her laws if they hurt or heal him, for she is his mother, he says. Who