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therefore,  be  pardoned  for  faking  up  what  will  undoubtedly  prove  a 
very  dry  subject :  how  other  people  must  study  to  become  pharma- 
cists. The  Britishers  have  probably  realized  the  fact  that  the  future 
chemist  begins  in  the  drug-store ;  naturally,  they  worry  not  at  all 
about  how  fit  the  student  that  enters  the  college  may  be ;  in  fact, 
he  need  not  attend  any  school,  to  become  a  licensed  chemist ;  in 
this,  then,  they  are  like  our  State  requirements.  We  Americans 
are  always  too  fast;  the  Britisher  is  proverbially  slow.  How 
excessively  slow  is  their  way  to  the  young  man's  goal !  He  must 
first  become  a  student  apprentice  at  the  age  when  he  will  still  suck 
"  mints ;  "  should  he  be  permitted  to  attend  to  these  delightful 
duties  without  a  preliminary  education  ?  Certainly  not.  The  young 
Britisher  must  know  his  Euclid  and  Latin  thoroughly,  in  addition 
to  a  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the  mother  tongue,  before  he 
may  enter  upon  the  above  mentioned  pleasant  occupation.  Why 
should  our  colleges  worry  about  the  educational  abilities  of  their 
students,  when  the  State  does  not  ?  Why  pester  the  legislators  to 
recognize  their  diploma  as  a  mark  of  peculiar  fitness  ?  the  law- 
makers always  scent  graft  a  mile  off.  Why  cannot  these  self-same 
schools  go  before  their  state  association  and  work  up  a  little  steam 
in  the  right  direction,  make  the  trade  see  the  advisability  of  having 
apprentices,  or,  as  we  call  the  ever  moving  young  men,  "  clerks," 
attain  at  least  a  good,  sound,  old-fashioned  English  education, 
before  they  enter  the  store  ?  This  would  probably  raise  a  howl 
among  many  druggists ;  they  may  urge  that  the  boys  will  be  too 
dainty,  stuck  up,  look  down  upon  many  of  the  new  registered  drug- 
gists as  ignoramuses,  and  similar  unwarranted  notions  may  be  flung 
about ;  also  that  most  popular  reason,  the  boys  will  want  more  than 
they  are  worth.  It  is  just  these  men  who  are  now  complaining 
that  they  cannot  get  help  which  is  worth  what  they  pay ;  this  class 
of  druggists  will  always  complain,  but  will  not  think  ahead.  If 
such  a  demand  were  enforced  by  law,  the  result  would  tend  to 
cause  older  boys  to  enter  the  drug-store  ;  young  men  who  would 
have  a  higher  consideration  of  their  employer  than  the  thoughtless 
youngsters  the  druggist  now  delights  to  hire  because  they  are 
cheap.  If  any  one  who  has  access  to  the  published  class  pictures  of 
the  English  schools,  such  as  Muter's,  Brixton,  or  of  the  Metropoli- 
tan, will  compare  them  with  class  pictures  of  our  Western  schools, 
he  will  not  fail  to  notice  the  more  mature  appearance  of  the  English 
