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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 25, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 33.

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NO TIME FOR TRIFLES.

We teach the children Danish, Trigonometry and Spanish; Fill their heads with old-time notions, And the secrets of the oceans, And the cuneiform inscriptions From the land of the Egyptians; Teach the date of every battle, And the habits of the cattle, With the date of every crowning; Read the poetry of Browning; Make them show a preference For each musty branch of science; Tell the acreage of Sweden; And the serpent’s wiles in Eden; And the other things we teach ’em Make a mountain so immense That we’ve not a moment left To teach them common sense.
—London Standard.