The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-09-16
VACATION ENDED,
The Opening Of the Schools and the
Lesson it Teaches to Chill
dren and Parents.

Our schools are now in full
blast, the young idea is preparing
TO shoot and the neighbors thank
the Lord that other folks brats will
be made to mind for few honrs
each day.
And the mothers of the county
breathe sigh of relief as the noisy
little feet which made the house a
veritable pandemonium during the
vacation, trudge off in the direction
of the pretentious building
where the frown, and perchance the
rod, of the pedagogue will hold
them under subsection Curing the
day
And the fathers with a grim
twist of the mouth reach down in
their pc ckets and wonder why it is
necessary to improve school books
so laundering often.
And the children, Having picked
the last berry and tasted the sub
tie qualities of the last green apple,
realize that vacation is but beIli-
aching void not worth living for.
So they trudge off to school with
a desire to be real good and to
learn to be smarter than their ia
thers-a very easy matter to accom-
plish in many instances.
The teachers have been gathering
nerve force for the long term, and
for a few weeks patience will seem
to reign tranquil in their souls.
After that, what? Ask the fearful
small boy as he rubs the sensitive
part of his trousers, utters an
"Ouchp and dries his eyes on the
sleeve of his jacket.
Those people who live near the
school-house will recognize the ia
miliar war hoop of the recess.
The big boy of tender years and
the stunted little fellow III his teens
have already opened the fall cam
paign with a rough and tumble "ras
sell"
Ali the old tricks for annoying
and circumventing the teacher will
be put in operation, with additions
to the repertoire picked up from
Bill Jones, the red headed boy of
inventive genius.
The delightful chorus of screams
the small girls indulge in will be at
tuned and set agoing.
All the children will wonder what
makes the benches so hard and the
hours so long, and the parents will
much shorter than they used to
be.
Every child that has been pro-
NOTED to a higher grades will be
patted on the head, until it is re-
vealed that 50 worth of new books
are needed.
School has begun; yes, and there
are hours Of quiet at home, when
the mother can sew patches on the
little garments, darn place here,
put button or two there, and make
her darling .presentable in the great
throng of youthful humanity that
crowds the schools of the land;
hours of quiet, when she looks back
on the days of her girlhood, In the
little brown school-house at the
forks of the road, in the geOgraph-
ical center of nowhere at all, and
forward to the time when the pride
of her heart, the long, lanky boy,
with more appetite than ambition,
will be valedictorian on some com
mencement day. Hellol There's
q rustic on the back steps, the
door slams and in comes the
whole troop. 81 want a new riff
mutic, and reader and a speller,
I'm promoted, hurrahr' "0h, say
ma; teacher says 1 can study jogfy
sixty cents is all the book costs!"
and the little shy, timid girl, Ahe
household pet, just one half day in
pipes up, II want a slate
and slate pencil and a sponge coz
Pm going to learn to draw"
Let US take half day off and go
to school again.