Baker Street Elementary – Motherly Love

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“by the honour of your mother” [SIGN]<span> </span></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHhSrOPyDbTObu4B5UFRwQ_W0fCOFj8GhGAFJ_MA0xULwBEtlyAauiipZYoceoraPvDGzNwHf7E3OHjz41nRNlmwubQakFFeiBaq2dOm-U3eob-xJzbTovIlqdz5jiqWI2o8xAZ6oerVqITrk1qLqrIeo-n4H5C6xDOz2dA0cj1fmOCr8OoggdcG4GSbw/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20222.1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHhSrOPyDbTObu4B5UFRwQ_W0fCOFj8GhGAFJ_MA0xULwBEtlyAauiipZYoceoraPvDGzNwHf7E3OHjz41nRNlmwubQakFFeiBaq2dOm-U3eob-xJzbTovIlqdz5jiqWI2o8xAZ6oerVqITrk1qLqrIeo-n4H5C6xDOz2dA0cj1fmOCr8OoggdcG4GSbw/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20222.1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></h4><div>Because of traditional gender roles (and inheritance and property laws) fathers typically commanded the households in the Sherlock Holmes stories — we're looking at you, Grimesby Roylott and Jephro Rucastle.</div><div><br /></div><div>But here and there, we find mothers who stepped up and took charge. Or at least made their wishes clearly known.</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Mrs. Ferguson let Mrs. Mason know what was going on, in order that her baby would be under watchful eyes ("The Sussex Vampire")</li><li>Mrs. St. Claire took it upon herself to go in search of her husband in some of the seedier areas of London ("The Man with the Twisted Lip")</li><li>Mrs. Munro hid her daughter from her second husband, for fear of rejection ("The Yellow Face")</li><li>Mrs. Maberley stood by her decision to remain in her house ("The Three Gables")</li><li>And of course, the matronly Mrs. Hudson kept things running at 221B Baker Street</li></ul></div><div>The number of mothers in the Canon is small, as we're not definitely told about whether many of the married women we come across have children. But we can rest assured that they cared deeply about their families.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you don't believe us, go ask your mother. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiINRKCdW5jf1OZjrIKkmWEIhv6ZocyxYf847aj91JKOp2snTtavYqWB7sNsL1LOV5uMd6dRXwOyoW-Qo902YdPKdkPFtJRrX54MccQFZGIfVre_0d4Fx8zXxczayZK9JwbsiWjZAMnOB1ONBKl_I11MdjZ9OOpGB627BIYZeHAORh-tEkX8XdLUH_I6ls/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20222.2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiINRKCdW5jf1OZjrIKkmWEIhv6ZocyxYf847aj91JKOp2snTtavYqWB7sNsL1LOV5uMd6dRXwOyoW-Qo902YdPKdkPFtJRrX54MccQFZGIfVre_0d4Fx8zXxczayZK9JwbsiWjZAMnOB1ONBKl_I11MdjZ9OOpGB627BIYZeHAORh-tEkX8XdLUH_I6ls/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20222.2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Xom5xZ0cmsMv7122nhN1-Kdv93b9HmGqHeg9LannVBdtVum-jJ-OfdNrdH6bhBn6Xz_NpbKUguHsqNNTYYTPx5X12U0iIiX-DFFfDkHyGTzqKcR3Wx4XFcEoNAI63GtTvn9c-p3g-vCz2XmtPsVBi3dlsFhqjpUZp0GW_yryiyRHx7F_7G5fsnZkB6k/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20222.3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Xom5xZ0cmsMv7122nhN1-Kdv93b9HmGqHeg9LannVBdtVum-jJ-OfdNrdH6bhBn6Xz_NpbKUguHsqNNTYYTPx5X12U0iIiX-DFFfDkHyGTzqKcR3Wx4XFcEoNAI63GtTvn9c-p3g-vCz2XmtPsVBi3dlsFhqjpUZp0GW_yryiyRHx7F_7G5fsnZkB6k/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20222.3.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and <a class="b-tooltip-container" data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=John+Watson+Sherlock+Holmes&bbid=6321981775136876837&bpid=3408911776569555507" target="_blank"><span class="b-tooltip" style="display: none;"><iframe src="/share-widget?w=poi&o=t&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fved%3D1t%3A260882%26q%3DJohn%2BWatson%2BSherlock%2BHolmes%26bbid%3D6321981775136876837%26bpid%3D3408911776569555507"></iframe></span>John Watson</a>, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in <a class="b-tooltip-container" data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=Victorian+London&bbid=6321981775136876837&bpid=3408911776569555507" target="_blank"><span class="b-tooltip" style="display: none;"><iframe src="/share-widget?w=poi&o=t&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fved%3D1t%3A260882%26q%3DVictorian%2BLondon%26bbid%3D6321981775136876837%26bpid%3D3408911776569555507"></iframe></span>Victorian London</a>. 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Baker Street Elementary – Motherly Love

“by the honour of your mother” [SIGN]   Because of traditional gender roles (and inheritance and property laws) fathers typically commanded ...

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Baker Street Elementary – DC Comic

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“I got them at six hundred” [BERY]<span> </span></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDW2UitSAzAaQHW7tdOsdZ3XMS4aVmmBMaL4_oth8JTkxGp4IM8r0rFFPiXUwD7sJzf-SdXnqJ3Uas6MumTl0ddDj21mK3zNl8p5O-LK_UgsE0pJoXv3jbnylvqA0gL_V8DOAkWDqd0iYdzydmqRxilhqBYbyN8J0AJ0subNXHQE9dE7uGycP5Kj6dos4/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20221.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDW2UitSAzAaQHW7tdOsdZ3XMS4aVmmBMaL4_oth8JTkxGp4IM8r0rFFPiXUwD7sJzf-SdXnqJ3Uas6MumTl0ddDj21mK3zNl8p5O-LK_UgsE0pJoXv3jbnylvqA0gL_V8DOAkWDqd0iYdzydmqRxilhqBYbyN8J0AJ0subNXHQE9dE7uGycP5Kj6dos4/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20221.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></h4><div>As we celebrate the 600th strip of Baker Street Elementary (you haven't seen all 600 here — for that you need to visit <a href="https://www.dfw-sherlock.org/baker-street-elementary.html" target="_blank">the Baker Street Elementary website</a>), a little numerology is in order.</div><div><br /></div><div>The number 600 has significant associations dating back to ancient times. In the bible, the number 600 often signified strength and unity: Noah was 600 when he boarded the ark; Moses and the Israelites were pursued by 600 Egyptian chariots. Ancient armies organized in groups of 600 for optimal strategic effectiveness.</div><div><br /></div><div>In numerology, the number 600 is an "angel number," with the number six signifying unity and harmony, and the number zero signifying infinity. We take that as a sign that the comic strip, which just marked nine years here on the IHOSE site, is in harmony with us (and is evidently slated to remain with us forever). It's been a lovely collaboration.</div><div><br /></div><div>And it didn't escape our notice that 600 in Roman numerals is DC.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's to those characters in the strips, as well as Steve, Joe, and Rusty, the creators of Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggps9dJIUcwckwXdBDv4Ke-oMZpDhIbHFXVoOLVCgAID1D8J0StP2DQs-NN5oW07nalVAROVLa1NDAD_4MmQ1QQe9jw1A6xD0E3rK31Mfsypkf7aHSaoiamF9uduzB_6l7mQv6mhwrc5rcEC3kl_mv9PC71Z1J7fOZggMa_fIO0mhvBGn23KCl5XubIv4/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20221.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggps9dJIUcwckwXdBDv4Ke-oMZpDhIbHFXVoOLVCgAID1D8J0StP2DQs-NN5oW07nalVAROVLa1NDAD_4MmQ1QQe9jw1A6xD0E3rK31Mfsypkf7aHSaoiamF9uduzB_6l7mQv6mhwrc5rcEC3kl_mv9PC71Z1J7fOZggMa_fIO0mhvBGn23KCl5XubIv4/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20221.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Baker Street Elementary – DC Comic

“I got them at six hundred” [BERY]   As we celebrate the 600th strip of Baker Street Elementary (you haven't seen all 600 here — for tha...

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Baker Street Elementary – A Glancing Blow

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases” [SPEC]<span>  </span></h4><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOJH4n4z7YTUtEucv7E2u246EWIXnUtbPE4X_AUCfw6SVmzQ7mNcgW9orLtp5GXkdbQR7nIerc9CGA_78pamCTxLArCUBhUE_kzJq-wV6uzLhxpQ4HRWrP2bt5VXcpUO27SgwBi505aybTBKUl0beVInNVUrBYIw-O3tfGzVsgzg_4myY5XXzT8bLJIro/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20220.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOJH4n4z7YTUtEucv7E2u246EWIXnUtbPE4X_AUCfw6SVmzQ7mNcgW9orLtp5GXkdbQR7nIerc9CGA_78pamCTxLArCUBhUE_kzJq-wV6uzLhxpQ4HRWrP2bt5VXcpUO27SgwBi505aybTBKUl0beVInNVUrBYIw-O3tfGzVsgzg_4myY5XXzT8bLJIro/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20220.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The "you see but you do not observe" crowd loves a good demonstration of Sherlock Holmes's abilities.</div><div><br /></div><div>What makes his skills particularly impressive is how he makes mental calculations and draws conclusions in an instant. We certainly know that famous introductory scene, where Holmes casually remarks "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive," after shaking Watson's hand.</div><div><br /></div><div>From that impressive first meeting, Watson gave us "the list" in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, outlining Holmes's limits, including:</div><div><blockquote><div>6. Geology.—Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. </div></blockquote></div><div>"At a glance." That phrase indicates the instantaneous recognition that so impressed Watson. In fact, in the same story, Holmes later used that phrase to describe a number of his skills and observations:</div><div><blockquote><div>“I can distinguish at a glance the ash of any known brand, either of cigar or of tobacco.”</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>But in all of this admiration for Holmes, we sometimes miss the astuteness of Dr. Watson. While Holmes may have chided him for seeing and not observing, his years as a medico left him trained with an eye for details:</div><div><blockquote><div>“It was clear to me at a glance that he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease.”</div><div> [BOSC]</div></blockquote></div><div><blockquote><div>“The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face and told me at a glance that something was amiss.” [ABBE]</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>As we'll see at Baker Street Elementary, sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. 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Baker Street Elementary – A Glancing Blow

“In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases” [SPEC]    The "you see but you do not observe" crowd loves a good demonstrati...

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Baker Street Elementary – A New Wiggins Begiggins

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Wiggins has just been up to report” [SIGN]<span>  </span></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggE8pMBp6HCSBMD_2XW2akQ__sFPM3iS5WbwfaqesTyl8WnkBNmwkHVQnUHxx2p0QuzqzAB1xL3bL9NPU34yZWnMu_4p7mbCNtQoKgCFEClVl3ayTZEZ50lbuCMcZc2x0OFI8Z3Gdc-y1HWEPX37CpNvxM0VlcHdU2QvbFJMflBa3rVpfx1y0WhYZP3QQ/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20219.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggE8pMBp6HCSBMD_2XW2akQ__sFPM3iS5WbwfaqesTyl8WnkBNmwkHVQnUHxx2p0QuzqzAB1xL3bL9NPU34yZWnMu_4p7mbCNtQoKgCFEClVl3ayTZEZ50lbuCMcZc2x0OFI8Z3Gdc-y1HWEPX37CpNvxM0VlcHdU2QvbFJMflBa3rVpfx1y0WhYZP3QQ/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20219.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>A little institutional history lesson today. Earlier this month, Michael Kean, "Wiggins" of the Baker Street Irregulars announced that he would be stepping down and that Steve Doyle would be succeeding him.</div><div><br /></div><div>When Edgar Smith began administering the Baker Street Irregulars, the leadership was divided into the following roles, according to <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2010/04/curious-constitution-sign_17.html" target="_blank">the BSI's Constitution and Buy-Laws</a>:</div><div><blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The officers shall be: a Gasogene, a Tantalus, and a Commissionaire</span></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>While those titles were never used officially, Edgar informally called himself "Buttoms-cum-Commissionaire," and when Julian Wolff took over following Smith's untimely death in 1960, he assumed the title "Commissionaire."</div><div><br /></div><div>It wasn't until Tom Stix was placed in the role in 1986 that the title "Wiggins" was used. Tom reasoned that it was the perfect selection, as Wiggins was the most senior of the band of street urchins ("One of their number, taller and older than the others" [SIGN]) who regularly helped Sherlock Holmes. </div><div><br /></div><div>We're introduced to "the Baker Street division of the detective police force" in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, as the band of them rush into the sitting room at 221B:</div><div><blockquote><div>“’Tention!” cried Holmes, in a sharp tone, and the six dirty little scoundrels stood in a line like so many disreputable statuettes. “In future you shall send up Wiggins alone to report, and the rest of you must wait in the street.”</div></blockquote></div><div>A sensible order. But evidently one that didn't register with the boys, as the scene repeated itself in <i>The Sign of Four</i> and Holmes had to reissue his order:</div><div></div><blockquote><div>As he spoke, there came a swift pattering of naked feet upon the stairs, a clatter of high voices, and in rushed a dozen dirty and ragged little street-Arabs...</div><div><div>“In future they can report to you, Wiggins, and you to me. I cannot have the house invaded in this way.”</div></div></blockquote><div><div></div></div><div>Evidently, the boys on Baker Street need a little discipline and reminding every now and again.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnRTAk_OpMnNzUofcHHCfPixmHbOdXm8aBR7NIzmI3xevpmHyEgLOJ340_Fhq6Swbg0NgQwTQDmPlUzjPu6GV-em7YHYbC1oZx_0LuIJzcSLWtTIy1NSAwVPy-DEx53FUl8_NP8fDpSEEyzheVvMY2ZoIWMOeB-jPkzD6yl8uF7o0su8SVd7lhFkRJCHE/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20219.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnRTAk_OpMnNzUofcHHCfPixmHbOdXm8aBR7NIzmI3xevpmHyEgLOJ340_Fhq6Swbg0NgQwTQDmPlUzjPu6GV-em7YHYbC1oZx_0LuIJzcSLWtTIy1NSAwVPy-DEx53FUl8_NP8fDpSEEyzheVvMY2ZoIWMOeB-jPkzD6yl8uF7o0su8SVd7lhFkRJCHE/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20219.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Baker Street Elementary – A New Wiggins Begiggins

“Wiggins has just been up to report” [SIGN]    A little institutional history lesson today. Earlier this month, Michael Kean, "Wiggins...

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Baker Street Elementary – Resolved

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“full of energy and resolution” [GLOR]<span>  </span></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvkzv-i32cNOVQwaGX0IR-TYCEoiZ52KnuVXeYVuynKPcjOg2idZ9nkm-mdms6W7Ua4OtuGgAuc8CztAscYy5uVTkRYU6hPZLAMu9wGd-2nd_ysyM4-Aov6ztKTMx90d1NZVmTfsSbd8qMsTybGwNWR1PJ690A2D5djAcQUnZDVkpSbZgbyrzTCkPTY8o/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20218.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvkzv-i32cNOVQwaGX0IR-TYCEoiZ52KnuVXeYVuynKPcjOg2idZ9nkm-mdms6W7Ua4OtuGgAuc8CztAscYy5uVTkRYU6hPZLAMu9wGd-2nd_ysyM4-Aov6ztKTMx90d1NZVmTfsSbd8qMsTybGwNWR1PJ690A2D5djAcQUnZDVkpSbZgbyrzTCkPTY8o/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20218.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></h4><div>January 1st always begins with hope for the New Year: a clean slate is offered up, and it is ours on which to write our intentions for the year. These often take the form of resolutions.</div><div><br /></div><div>It has been long posited that Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson met on New Year's Day, 1881, as told in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>. While there are no dates mentioned in the text, there are clues that lead us to believe this may be the case:</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Watson runs into an old friend Stamford at the Criterion Bar; that he was at or outside such an establishment indicates he may have been trying to drown his sorrows (we later learn his brother was an alcoholic, so it's not out of the question that Watson might share some of those habits).</li><li>When they find Sherlock Holmes, he is alone in the laboratory. It could indicate that it was a holiday, since he was the only one there.</li><li>The entire purpose of Watson looking for a roommate is because he was taking stock of his finances and knew he needed "some less pretentious and less expensive domicile" than his hotel. He tells us: "On the very day that I had come to this conclusion..." </li><li>This is anecdotal, but of the 13 appearances of the word "resolute" in the Canon, five of them appear in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>. Such language must have a deeper meaning, particularly of Watson's and Hope's commitments to making things happen.</li></ol><div>Given all of those facts, it is not unlikely that Watson was making a resolution on New Year's Day to change his habits and his lifestyle.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>We should be grateful for his commitment to improving himself. That fateful decision has improved the world (or at least the world of Sherlockians).</div><div><div><br /></div><div>Let's see who's committed to improving the experience at Baker Street Elementary...</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOr9WueC6XuHEKgwznalUh3uMptKyk9Lf3EM3mM596FFqflly9ydkD0KL7WjyM9RZ9NQmXu3bfz3LwTecuoWSgxAdF5Tox7JMll7gDbdZqQ_K70qbm9ewxCVnk7CUK3_YV29jWv67i-FF_hX5CKiSg47jGFb3a7n8HfMgUMsr1Mx2CQPWrHmjxqX21PUY/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20218.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOr9WueC6XuHEKgwznalUh3uMptKyk9Lf3EM3mM596FFqflly9ydkD0KL7WjyM9RZ9NQmXu3bfz3LwTecuoWSgxAdF5Tox7JMll7gDbdZqQ_K70qbm9ewxCVnk7CUK3_YV29jWv67i-FF_hX5CKiSg47jGFb3a7n8HfMgUMsr1Mx2CQPWrHmjxqX21PUY/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20218.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Baker Street Elementary – Resolved

“full of energy and resolution” [GLOR]      January 1st always begins with hope for the New Year: a clean slate is offered up, and it is our...

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Baker Street Elementary – Working Out Some Problems

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Puerile as such an exercise may seem” [STUD] </h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkpoEZrbep_5XaVyJdjahtYxkQk2U3FsDmic5_waIyeHnUs_YQ2dOCry9hHviBZp0rioBpfboXlBpsLFdsrn6m4u5pZxFgIzjRFRySpI64EX2uHc4OuNx7zIKdLJUq4U_a9HBwhVbRSUqKycpTbJYF0-6y0iWyz0LDrdATGXncBTM0FKxVQopy45ur8c/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20217.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkpoEZrbep_5XaVyJdjahtYxkQk2U3FsDmic5_waIyeHnUs_YQ2dOCry9hHviBZp0rioBpfboXlBpsLFdsrn6m4u5pZxFgIzjRFRySpI64EX2uHc4OuNx7zIKdLJUq4U_a9HBwhVbRSUqKycpTbJYF0-6y0iWyz0LDrdATGXncBTM0FKxVQopy45ur8c/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20217.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></h4><div>In "The Yellow Face," Watson tells us "Sherlock Holmes a man who seldom took exercise for exercise’s sake," yet we know he had some athletic pursuits. More on that in a moment.</div><div><br /></div><div>But first: what do we know about the exercise habits of others in the Canon?</div><div><br /></div><div>There were some clients or minor characters who regularly took exercise. Among them:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Violet Smith</b> was an ardent cyclist: "Yes, I bicycle a good deal, Mr. Holmes." [SOLI]</li><li><b>Fitzroy McPherson</b> was a swimmer: "Summer and winter he went for his swim." [LION]</li><li><b>Elias Openshaw</b> regularly walked: "He had a garden and two or three fields round his house, and there he would take his exercise" [FIVE]</li><li><b>Blessington</b> habitually took short walks before dinner. [RESI]</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>Then of course there were those who were avowed couch potatoes:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Alexander Holder</b> was not a workout fan: "That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who takes very little exercise." [BERY]</li><li><b>Mycroft Holmes</b> kept to his habits, going from his Pall Mall lodgings to Whitehall and to the Diogenes Club. "From year’s end to year’s end he takes no other exercise." [GREE]</li><li><b>Nathan Garrideb</b> was described as "man to whom exercise was unknown." [3GAR]</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>Back to "The Yellow Face." After telling us that Holmes didn't take exercise for its own sake, Watson shared this observation:</div><div><blockquote><div>"Few men were capable of greater muscular effort, and he was undoubtedly one of the finest boxers of his weight that I have ever seen; but he looked upon aimless bodily exertion as a waste of energy, and he seldom bestirred himself save when there was some professional object to be served. Then he was absolutely untiring and indefatigable. That he should have kept himself in training under such circumstances is remarkable,</div></blockquote></div><div>Aside from boxing, we know about Holmes's ability with a singlestick and his study of "baritsu" which saved his life in his encounter with Professor Moriarty in Switzerland. And we learn in "The Lion's Mane" that Holmes was a swimmer himself.</div><div><br /></div><div>Perhaps it's that Holmes viewed exercise strategically — as with a purpose. In "Black Peter," returning to Baker Street with a harpoon under his arm like a piece of athletic equipment, Holmes remarked,</div><blockquote><div>"There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast."</div></blockquote><div>More about Sherlock Holmes's athletic abilities in <i>Trifles</i> <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles156" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 156 - Sherlock Holmes, Sportsman</a>. And if you like, you can binge the entire <b>collection of episodes on Games & Sports</b> in the Canon on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/collection/372702" target="_blank">Patreon</a> or <a href="https://trifles.substack.com/t/games-and-sports" target="_blank">Substack</a>, ranging from rugby to tennis to shooting, boxing, swimming and more. </div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Now off to the exercise books of Baker Street Elementary...</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiodsvQfWHLP55DS2LV35DcNETmVxXRMzEpRmw2koSMk3hFe8HFejOk4nhRm5JTwTH8WknM4B9kPsFS3f0FfteZGMN7d6xDEp9flIN0HN3srFUA_pIF-C2lD_TAqyNz_0t_v6XzIK2oBRIMKfZRz1DTlzcLUkhrDmnjmrhDeizLp-tvM4NkgeRA0ydXMjg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiodsvQfWHLP55DS2LV35DcNETmVxXRMzEpRmw2koSMk3hFe8HFejOk4nhRm5JTwTH8WknM4B9kPsFS3f0FfteZGMN7d6xDEp9flIN0HN3srFUA_pIF-C2lD_TAqyNz_0t_v6XzIK2oBRIMKfZRz1DTlzcLUkhrDmnjmrhDeizLp-tvM4NkgeRA0ydXMjg=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigY3Xs3RF-4XphoH3BYO6awKwiq_ycSDkeJ8kWK6C_EoEeAd11LnOQnsmqSyF5d7lmot9pNau5i4ffJlpKxRzrV9m--zUMSoYYESAnsnXr7y64uGgugMlYaD38OrWPuWO0-q9JhkA8AbSocxyGJKAURRmnsphcDeE-zpTUlHsrIv569rmy0gec7FBqTwY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigY3Xs3RF-4XphoH3BYO6awKwiq_ycSDkeJ8kWK6C_EoEeAd11LnOQnsmqSyF5d7lmot9pNau5i4ffJlpKxRzrV9m--zUMSoYYESAnsnXr7y64uGgugMlYaD38OrWPuWO0-q9JhkA8AbSocxyGJKAURRmnsphcDeE-zpTUlHsrIv569rmy0gec7FBqTwY=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQMh186_RGOnUq6JO7-6kiE-dvCZO4oQ9mYFODRmiX2sz4W-rgfS53kM9GGCdhvFzxyh-_JKe5pQVExaFWmoQ-M7cqP5dH-fUlRj14YKe23Ve6JiaCHVcyIkp8TD2bDeb0K195_6V1-BcrIEXgrY9MNGjEhuPJpNTC5eFQsZeNbW9ClkpUBJqhnGiQqJQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQMh186_RGOnUq6JO7-6kiE-dvCZO4oQ9mYFODRmiX2sz4W-rgfS53kM9GGCdhvFzxyh-_JKe5pQVExaFWmoQ-M7cqP5dH-fUlRj14YKe23Ve6JiaCHVcyIkp8TD2bDeb0K195_6V1-BcrIEXgrY9MNGjEhuPJpNTC5eFQsZeNbW9ClkpUBJqhnGiQqJQ=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and <a class="b-tooltip-container" data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=John+Watson+Sherlock+Holmes&bbid=6321981775136876837&bpid=3408911776569555507" target="_blank"><span class="b-tooltip" style="display: none;"><iframe src="/share-widget?w=poi&o=t&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fved%3D1t%3A260882%26q%3DJohn%2BWatson%2BSherlock%2BHolmes%26bbid%3D6321981775136876837%26bpid%3D3408911776569555507"></iframe></span>John Watson</a>, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in <a class="b-tooltip-container" data-preview="" href="https://www.google.com/search?ved=1t:260882&q=Victorian+London&bbid=6321981775136876837&bpid=3408911776569555507" target="_blank"><span class="b-tooltip" style="display: none;"><iframe src="/share-widget?w=poi&o=t&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fved%3D1t%3A260882%26q%3DVictorian%2BLondon%26bbid%3D6321981775136876837%26bpid%3D3408911776569555507"></iframe></span>Victorian London</a>. 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Baker Street Elementary – It Never Ends

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“I gave him the best of educations.” [PRIO] </h4><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw41xJIhDXBCEGgLv-q5iCmjL7w6DNj2LZJ86ykDfDBqcSTg_OjgwQkh5sLUulrDVNa0Sf3Lcfj94uST2jRwVXygmylOdU56qJruA7rAvu4a3X9IpJpVZNkPpGgcGCLsDywcNJ4DpyDXYjOD95L23kiEP6S7LknWuGSM5YJNrrij5apKENtaFxj0L9_C0/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20216.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw41xJIhDXBCEGgLv-q5iCmjL7w6DNj2LZJ86ykDfDBqcSTg_OjgwQkh5sLUulrDVNa0Sf3Lcfj94uST2jRwVXygmylOdU56qJruA7rAvu4a3X9IpJpVZNkPpGgcGCLsDywcNJ4DpyDXYjOD95L23kiEP6S7LknWuGSM5YJNrrij5apKENtaFxj0L9_C0/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20216.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>In my professional life, I coach leaders and write <a href="https://www.timelesstimely.com" target="_blank">a newsletter on leadership and character</a>, ending every missive with the phrase “There's so much to learn.” As the philosophers will tell you, we don't know what we don't know, and those who are curious and life-long learners make the best leaders.</div><div><br /></div><div>And although Sherlock Holmes could easily forget more than any of his contemporaries from Scotland Yard might ever know, he kept educating himself.</div><div><br /></div><div>In "The Adventure of the Red Circle," Watson questions why Holmes would take on the case of Mrs. Warren and her strange lodger:</div><div><div><div></div><blockquote><div>“Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?”</div><div>“What, indeed? It is art for art’s sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored you found yourself</div><div>studying cases without thought of a fee?”</div><div>“For my education, Holmes.”</div><div>“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div>And that last line, as simple as it is, is also one of the most profound in the Canon. Those who are curious and of the disposition to keep learning throughout life will continue to gain knowledge until the very end, only to learn the mystery of what awaits us in the great beyond.</div><div><br /></div><div>Does this mean Sherlock Holmes believed in the afterlife? Perhaps. We certainly know his creator did. But perhaps for Holmes it will simply mean finding the solution to the greatest mystery of all — the mystery of life.</div><div><br /></div><div>Over on Trifles we talked about the boarding schools in <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles127" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 127 - School's Out</a>:</div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="12876" data-dashlane-rid="19fbffff75fabece" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/10055063/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/3a4e59/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Now let's see what the boys are learning as Baker Street Elementary enters its 12th year...</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Baker Street Elementary – It Never Ends

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Baker Street Elementary – Off to Violin-Land

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Holmes would talk about nothing but violins” [CARD] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5FAm-TGqQMaABbQ8W7xiLPmt9S61_l5Bxn7m1Uq_CPtySlULNy1kV5KJdN35UL8Mn2BJq4ZU0pLx4WGT0nR4HLQ5YqrVa7M9qNJ0CWBdpRfkMgLR1n8f31IMhMpOmJ6r7p9nz-715W5vu86jA6GfvCHQwNpbweRqhVIQ90oQQoszvuazIhh6fSoU3dZw/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20215.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5FAm-TGqQMaABbQ8W7xiLPmt9S61_l5Bxn7m1Uq_CPtySlULNy1kV5KJdN35UL8Mn2BJq4ZU0pLx4WGT0nR4HLQ5YqrVa7M9qNJ0CWBdpRfkMgLR1n8f31IMhMpOmJ6r7p9nz-715W5vu86jA6GfvCHQwNpbweRqhVIQ90oQQoszvuazIhh6fSoU3dZw/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20215.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Does the quality of an instrument affect the ability of the player? Marketers of high-end instruments would certainly like us to believe so.</div><div><br /></div><div>In Sherlock Holmes's case, it is perhaps the difference between Watson tolerating his intermittent concerti and throwing the instrument through the window.</div><div><br /></div><div>When they first meet, the young Holmes tests Watson thusly:</div><div><blockquote><div>“Do you include violin-playing in your category of rows?”</div></blockquote></div><div><div>Fortunately, Watson passed with flying colors when he replied, </div><div><blockquote><div>“It depends on the player,” I answered. “A well-played violin is a treat for the gods—a badly-played one—” </div></blockquote></div><div>Watson would later confirm this for us, as he made his famous list "<i>Sherlock Holmes</i>—his limits":</div><blockquote><div>10. Plays the violin well</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Of course, Sherlock Holmes knew he had the upper hand here, as he later confirmed to Watson that his was a Stradivarius, acquired for just 55 shillings. Stradivarius violins are the most famed types of violins in existence, often being insured for millions of dollars. It just goes to show what great bargains one can get if you know what you're looking for!</div><div><br /></div><div>Later on, Watson referred to Holmes's violin playing as "remarkable," but also alluded to the careless "scraping" of the violin across Holmes's knee and its "low, melancholy wailings." One could easily tie playing style to moods more so than to the quality of the instrument.</div><div><br /></div><div>Whatever it was, Holmes knew how to get his violin to perform for him.</div><div><br /></div><div>Listen to the <a href="https://ihose.co/trifles89" target="_blank"><i>Trifles</i> episode on Holmes's Stradivarius violin</a>:</div><div><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" data-dashlane-classification="other" data-dashlane-frameid="2766" data-dashlane-rid="15c364574f83a447" height="192" mozallowfullscreen="true" msallowfullscreen="true" oallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/7040212/height/192/theme/modern/size/large/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/3a4e59/time-start/00:00:00/playlist-height/200/direction/backward/download/yes/font-color/FFFFFF" style="border: none;" title="Embed Player" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="100%"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Let's see if all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony at Baker Street Elementary...</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIXtDEtwbEltzsWwbhgcQ21nTewC-OpfEmF48hDf4p0Km71Cw1gyWZR1jBrpx4nCWdAQLYxdvOVfDqMYBhMDNgUwWOdhpQZ0JdEj-gz2iiSa7yfJX30Ec_H_LeDYSKzc1hTaOnmDg9YkOb6k0XEs9ZPO46vhVWPxHo-mWnCbthxmJBjxjr_PZm4DanlpA/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20215.4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIXtDEtwbEltzsWwbhgcQ21nTewC-OpfEmF48hDf4p0Km71Cw1gyWZR1jBrpx4nCWdAQLYxdvOVfDqMYBhMDNgUwWOdhpQZ0JdEj-gz2iiSa7yfJX30Ec_H_LeDYSKzc1hTaOnmDg9YkOb6k0XEs9ZPO46vhVWPxHo-mWnCbthxmJBjxjr_PZm4DanlpA/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20215.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_FzW2N3pdQ0hCmQe9i2HDygoVJS_T91emNuz0uCtGUSyfzY8c1Xbi6MCaCd_MneTRDtu6hhPYj0s9k4hFiY_MezoKSfsAHIo111_ZVbgT3C9iPFwr0JUFwFy7yl4qgSd38fFeAKMulZbUUxP2eL5xOj0_kprl_904t4GXq5jhidHmvwigSveMMGUisSw/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20215.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_FzW2N3pdQ0hCmQe9i2HDygoVJS_T91emNuz0uCtGUSyfzY8c1Xbi6MCaCd_MneTRDtu6hhPYj0s9k4hFiY_MezoKSfsAHIo111_ZVbgT3C9iPFwr0JUFwFy7yl4qgSd38fFeAKMulZbUUxP2eL5xOj0_kprl_904t4GXq5jhidHmvwigSveMMGUisSw/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20215.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDpxouOdJ-cWr6WNGbBZL14gvfNrweK8wbZikT4jhUMPcuqS_2QWk51pkVFXLQRmdT6mV_Ony08haQK7ZyYzd9HYF0_Wjz97JrY-s7-aPJq_U6wAL5aH0lQwaAF-LCCMugmR8z5eA71QmvWib9jUjD3U7Ff3plWgTbtM9YEkN0sX1VOSLAfbTXv_BGlV4/s1365/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20215.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDpxouOdJ-cWr6WNGbBZL14gvfNrweK8wbZikT4jhUMPcuqS_2QWk51pkVFXLQRmdT6mV_Ony08haQK7ZyYzd9HYF0_Wjz97JrY-s7-aPJq_U6wAL5aH0lQwaAF-LCCMugmR8z5eA71QmvWib9jUjD3U7Ff3plWgTbtM9YEkN0sX1VOSLAfbTXv_BGlV4/w640-h360/Baker%20Street%20Elementary%20215.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. 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Baker Street Elementary – Off to Violin-Land

“Holmes would talk about nothing but violins” [CARD]  Does the quality of an instrument affect the ability of the player? Marketers of high-...

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Baker Street Elementary – Through the Magic Door

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“who seems to have the powers of magic” [SUSS] </h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzgBRlXZCY6GmHalbpk0m6pwVMPX_8oL9QWpzrawoPT4vLI9TGBi52HCZngvNw9f0W4z5MgGcZ8OydalgnaztQx-cP9rORpa9DD-wVKxfglJDv3Xv0jmh8Xoz6vmZw2wzLI5vflhzJwrrH1hb1AptcAtHBh_CDdqv541Vi9jVZryNyNLda8bfQ3faLg_gn" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzgBRlXZCY6GmHalbpk0m6pwVMPX_8oL9QWpzrawoPT4vLI9TGBi52HCZngvNw9f0W4z5MgGcZ8OydalgnaztQx-cP9rORpa9DD-wVKxfglJDv3Xv0jmh8Xoz6vmZw2wzLI5vflhzJwrrH1hb1AptcAtHBh_CDdqv541Vi9jVZryNyNLda8bfQ3faLg_gn=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br />We don't hear much of magic in the Sherlock Holmes stories, other than Holmes being called a wizard four times and a magician once (can you name the stories?). While he did have a "human love for admiration and applause," [SIXN] Holmes kept his agency flat-footed upon the ground.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>His creator, of course, was another story. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, known worldwide for his perfect reasoning machine, was also fascinated by spiritualism and participated in many seances, including a rather famous one <a href="https://www.thecollector.com/arthur-conan-doyle-vs-harry-houdini-friendship/" target="_blank">with his friend Harry Houdini that did not end well</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>But it is another type of magic that Conan Doyle wrote about in 1907 in his book <i><b><a href="https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/2670720/77416/2029?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DDoyle%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26cm_sp%3DSearchF-_-Advs-_-Result%26ds%3D30%26prc%3DUSD%26recentlyadded%3Dall%26rgn%3Dww%26rollup%3Don%26sortby%3D20%26tn%3DThrough%2520the%2520Magic%2520Door%26xdesc%3Doff%26xpod%3Doff" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through the Magic Door</a></b></i>. In this memoir of sorts, the author takes us on a tour through his library through a series of personal essays that describe the transformational power of reading.</div><div><br /></div><div>The first paragraph of Chapter I sets the tone:</div><blockquote>“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland. Surely there would be something eerie about a line of books were it not that familiarity has deadened our sense of it. Each is a mummified soul embalmed in cere-cloth and natron of leather and printer's ink. Each cover of a true book enfolds the concentrated essence of a man. The personalities of the writers have faded into the thinnest shadows, as their bodies into impalpable dust, yet here are their very spirits at your command.”</blockquote><div><br />We know this effect from many books we've read, and certainly from Doyle's many works. In the words of T.S. Eliot, "Let us go then, you and I..."</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's see what magic the boys at Baker Street Elementary are creating.</div><div><br /></div><div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKfEeCV-LveGcTwl6TOBAlgJ9kLPd9AmJ26USdgMuGr4sPDxIz823BR7bFgLuQA2aYPm5lrBklwj3t3bj8GxtGnpSKOPnPGYmTxGgKkQWb6LV82Hz7L0WSeLQMnpX9arMq0w0zuzUfRs7xlGaaiiFdaXi20ix53ZfMR5IHGHSS65ZC_73Hu0z8b0SIdXA7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1365" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKfEeCV-LveGcTwl6TOBAlgJ9kLPd9AmJ26USdgMuGr4sPDxIz823BR7bFgLuQA2aYPm5lrBklwj3t3bj8GxtGnpSKOPnPGYmTxGgKkQWb6LV82Hz7L0WSeLQMnpX9arMq0w0zuzUfRs7xlGaaiiFdaXi20ix53ZfMR5IHGHSS65ZC_73Hu0z8b0SIdXA7=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZknxBq3Z0EdX_SSeAsPILy2fdmM_CF7ok358GOPfmBMEHm1GN6hNUnoq3HIw4yTCaL0lVUvOW1EJc4TS4UFBaFwD75BAOQLWgWYiG7lxv49Kwh8yMWhN-3KkveTMPdpzpBYot9a9zHosdRQwVoksFScogtJtEM-kO8FeNCodvIqnu1OuE5RSYfq1xCMHt" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Baker Street Elementary – Through the Magic Door

“who seems to have the powers of magic” [SUSS]  We don't hear much of magic in the Sherlock Holmes stories, other than Holmes being call...

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