The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-03-16
lEaston Free Press.l
The New sehOOlmarm.

The advent of the new schooImis.
tress, especially in the country, il
ever al occasion Ofexcitement among
the yoang people of both sexes, who
ars to profit bv her ministrations,
and source OF much inquiry and
speculation 10 the older folks at home
aud We have ever thought that IL any
one wss entitled to pity in state o.
/ fnrl 'rn loneliness, it was the Young
girl in a strange neighborhood, when
she Ioks at the long rows of unpity-
( ing, wide open eyes that stare her out
uf cOunlenance and inspect her leis-
urely frhn the toes of her CATERS to
| the top curl on her head, the first
morning she opens school.
There is kind of taeit aggression
a. home which crops out against the
New mistress when the mother OF the
family grabs young one, and as she
yAnSs its reluctant head down into
I the wash-basin remarks
"NOw, you M'lissey, you needn't
yOwi you've got to be washed. !
Amt Iin' to have no stuek-up new
sehO d ma'am turnin' up her nose at
yOung'un Of mine, If have to take
the skin off'n you"
In the school room the audibly
whispered comments OF the little fe-
male aggravators must be remarka-
bly, encsuraging.
"Ssy, May, that's only q fifteen
eeut popiin she has on"
Yes, and say, Annie, look what q
Orful fat hump. 1t don't stick out
half 81 nice as our Luee's."
Then a small boy, predestined for
future punishment, observes care
lessly
'Sle must have kim cross lots this
mOrnin' 'relse where did she get that
brisr on her trail.n
The mistress looks behind her fur
lively and feels that she ia lost, when
the small demon continues
"rh1rt I'd fetch her." and nearly
strSngles because he can't yell April
Fool, while cOnvulsive snieksr rip
Piles all along his bench.
Say, Jim, she's agoin' to board
over % your house, Rin't she ?"
"Y-a-a-s, an won't that old bull
purp ~ eurn make her sail round
when she comes home o. nights"
t'She'il hev to 90 all the way round
the road, won't sue? Can't climb no
fence with that ost bag on"
III she ever goes to lick me Pm a.
g1in' tn run. Hi Kersquweek, won't
it he bally to see her go skally-
hootin' over the benches after fell
leT.'g
"LoOk out for her there; she's 8
grabbin' hold of the ruler"
Then strikes in girl with mis-
sion:
"Our Mary told me to be sure and
look how her hair was fixt. Now, you
JUST get her over here to look at your
sum, till I git fair squint at that
hurrah's nest o. hern."
And so it goes on until the aecumu-
iatiOn of small annoyances makes
that schoolmistress so nervous that
she wants to yell right out. Just then
an unfortunate chuckles right before
her very eyes, because another told
him that it's slippery elm she's chew
ng instead of gum, and here she calls
out in an awful voice:
"James, come here 90
James untangIes his legs from the
seat and stands up q youthful Her
cules, with limbs like an amateur
pile driver, foil head taller than the
Judge who has called him to Justice.
She Is scared and would give almost
anything to be safe ut home, for 1t
draws upon her mind that that boy
NAV take playful notion to chuck
her out of the window. But no, he
saunters leisurely across the floor
with pslpable grin upon his good
bumored, freckled face, and backs
himself up in front OF her. She
reaches up and takes him gingerly by
the collar, while with the ruler or
whatever she has handy she admin
listers retribution and raises the dust
until she must either sneezS or bust.
Then, as she sends him back to his
seat, with one thumb in his mouth,
she grabs her nose in her handkerchief
and blows an infantile blast of
triumph over the fact that she has
demonstrated that order Is the first
law OF nature and that school
shall be preserved II it shakes every
hairpin out OF her head.
Her comfort may be little shaken
as she hears the next boy whisper:
Glow does she whollOp, Jim ?"
"Well, only middlin'. The little
thing isn't half stout enough for this
school, but she's mighty willin'."
But that evening James carries her
books, lets down the fence that she
may step over, and tells her a long
yarn about his pet calf, as they walk
home.
The days grow brighter as the chill
dren come to know and love her, and
her task becomes happiness as she
fulfiils faithfully one of the highest
missions God has appointed to his
creatures.