The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-11-05
HER STEP ASIDE"
Pauline, However, Got Back Into
the Trte Path.


M. Valrey gave painting lessons in
fashionable New York boarding school
He was tall, spare man, whose eye
brows were Just touched with gray, al
though his hair had grown quite white
His face was shaved clean, so that tn,
deep lines showed plainly, but failur,
and sorrow had aged him more thar
Years, for in spite of his wrinkles ant
white hair he was not yet 60. At 80 b,
had married and brought his wife L
New York, hoping to win the fame an,
fortune denied him in France, and h,
won neither. Still, be struggled along
gally for awhile. believing that the rcl
Amer cans must sooner or later buy hi:
pictures, give him orders, heap wealth
and honor upon him; but the rich
Americans ignored his very existence
and poor Paul Valrey drank the cup OF
disappointment to the drcgs before the
cup of poverty was forced to his lips.
Finally, when his little stock of money
had dwindled down to q handful of dol
lars, his wife bore him child, and the
doctor who attended her let Valrey
paint his portrait in payment for pro-
fessional services. The portrait was ey-
cellent and brought him a few orders,
and he managed TO keep loaf in the
cupboard, but at las. he was glad to exc
out a living by teaching. He had
neither reputation nor influential friends
to back him, and for a long time it was
a hard struggle to get pupils, but in the
course of ten or twelve years he achiey-
ed some measure of fame as a teacher
of drawing and painting.
HIS daughter, when his wife dies, be-
comes the one object of his existence.
He taught her how to draw and paint.
be had her read and speak French
with him, he educated her as
well as he could, and Pauline Valrey
grew up in the belief that all there was
for her to do in life was to teach, and
accepted her calling without dreaming
of adopting any other. When she was
almost twenty he succeed in getting her
a position in Nine. Kenyon's famous
school for young ladies, where he had
given lessons for several years, and she
began with teaching the rudiments of
French and taking charge of the
Youngest drawing pupils. TWAS of her
that he wished to speak to Nine. Ken
Won, and when the note had been writ
ten and the tea brought in. he preached
the subject delicately. Pauline had been
two months in the school, and he want
ed 10 know whether she gave satisfac-
ton. He knew Nine. Kenyon too well
to think that she would keep teacher
for any sentimental reason.
mile. Nalrey has the gift of instmc-
tion," said Nine. Kenyon, promptly.
Il have been watching her closely since
she came, and am convinced that as
she grows older she will develop into a
teacher whose services will be very val
liable. Moreover, Monsieur, she has
such charming manners that she sub
dues my wild Western girls by sheer
gentleness, and l hope they will take
pattern by her. 1t is quite useless. YOU
know, to preach manners; it is only by
example that hoyden can be trained.
And my teachers must be able to do
something more than correct exercises
me to refine, Monsieur. DO not claim
to send out learned women as Vassar
or Girton do. but when a young lady
has been with me three or four years /
expect her 10 conduct herself properly
IN a drawing room or at a dinner table,
to speak low and use good English, to
dress suitably and word a note neatly.
lt is harder to teach all this than to
teach Greek or ASTRONOMY
III. Valrey bowed; he had heard these
remarks many times before, and he
only murmured:
1T is indeed, madame, far more diff
ficult.'
He had drank the tea, which he alb
horred, and he looked at the fragile,
painted cup in silence for minute;
then he said:
II hope you will be a friend TO my
daughter always. She may need a
friend any day, and you may need
new painting teacher
Pauline joined her father after this
Interview with the mistress of NE fash
ionable school, and as she helped him
into his great coat she brushed speck
off his shoulder: she gave him his hat
and stick, and they went out together
10 the busting avenue, and walked
toward the park. She was like him,
tall and slight;it was from her mother
that she had inherited delicate features.
a fine-grained, white skin and bright
brown hair and eyes. She could have
sat to the most fastdious of painters
for portrait of lady. but no painter
could catch the charm of her smile, &C
companied as it often was by faint
flush in her cheeks that faded while
one was wondering what had Lit up the |
pale face. She looked somewhat older |
than her years; she had been trained in
a school that makes girl of twenty !
woman. Her mother had taught her
to use needle deity, and she could |
fashion dress or trim a bonnet to
accord well with her face or figure: she |
had true Frenchwoman's knack of
putting roll of lace around her neck
or tying ribbon at her throat. For |
her father, she cared in a sort of natur al |
way, looking after his clothes and scold- |
inc him gently abOut his collars apd