The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-12-28
SCHOOL-BOY DAYS.
"reminiscences of Experiences with Iemi-
nine Teachers of Varying Ages.
A Cleveland Editors Account Of Dramatic
Incidents in the School Room--The Young
Teacher is Sweet Creature but is Lacking
in Tact

Incidents in the School Room--T Young
Teacher is Sweet Creature but is Lacking
in Tact
There are teachers and teachers,
says the editor OF the Cleveland, o..
Union. There is the elderly teacher
of matronly proportions and the lovely
but inexperienced girl who has just
dotted her beautiful graduating dress
and taken upon her young shoulders
the training of room full of young
sters whose highest ambition is to
throw spit balls and make faces behind
the teachers back. The girl school
teacher is sweet creature, but it Is
the elderly, matronly appearing teach
er, with good fund of experience.
who is much more capable of controll-
ing large body of children. The
latter is not so liable to fly off the
handle when she catches a girl writing
notes or u boy peppering the surround
ing landscape with spit balls. She is
also more capable of making the pun
ishment fit the crime in case a
seance with fractions pupil becomes
an overpowering necessity. When
one of the inexperienced girl teachers
in a moment of etreme irritability in
duiges in the art of corporeal punish
ment, there is always more or less fun
for the school and disarrangement of
wearing apparel for her. Unfortu.
nately, it is also one of those utterly
incomprehensible freaks of nature that
the smaller and paler and sicklier the
teacher the bigger and more vicious
the boy that she tackles. There is
something degrading in the spectacle
of fragile, well educated, unmarried
female school teacher dancing madly
up and down the room in the embrace
of an overgrown boy with a dirty nose
and sore heel. Memory brings to
my minds eye the scenes of the bent
pln' Slapped ear days of my youth. l
was boy with a studded toe and many
sfs>-Eles. WAS also nuisance to the
world at sarge and sort of gymnasium
to the teachefe~sd but one virtue
i, a patient - cuss. /
kindly allowed the girl I.ssc3aer to
bend my fingers back as tbonaSs
knuckles worked on hinges ana ohasa
the flies off of my soiled palm with 4
big ruler. Then retired to my seat
and wrote notes to the girls across the
aisle, which if published in book form
would cause the average 'letters OF
courtship and marriage book" to be-
come nauseating drug in the literary
market. The sweet girl teacher grab
bed me by the coat collar and shook
me until my head looked like seven
teen heads to the rest OF the scholars
and l could see the air full Of stars
and stripes and the signs of the zodiac.
There now, young man. perhaps you
will behave after this!" she gasped,
breathless with her exertion, but l
only smole a sicl1ly smile as l retired
to my desk, and when she turned
her head / fixed perpendicular
slate pencil in the chair OF the
teachers pet" so as to impale
him when he sat down after reciting.
When his wild shrek arose on the
Silly air and he ran madly up and
down the aisle with the slate pencil
sticking to his polonaise, l was willing
to call things square, but the teacher
wasn't. She came over and laid her
girlish, lily white hand on my ear, in
a manner that caused me to hear the
roar OF Niagara Falls distinctly.
There also seemed to be more or less
heavy cannonading taking place on
the rim of my auricular organ. When
I recovered consciousness decided to
offer a remonstrance to any further
| demonstrations of this nature on her
part. / passed" at the end of the
term, Notwithstanding her efforts to
teach me nine different studies in al
most as many minutes, and was hand
| ed over to muscular young lady. who
proposed, in my hearing, to take the
nonsense out of me via the rapid trans
il route. She pulled the girls ears sc
they hung down on their shoulders
and slapped the boys out of their seats
with single graceful swipe o.
the hand. One day she caught me
studying my geography lesson out of &
yellow-covered book entitled "Rattle
snake Mike, or the mystery of the
Blood Sausage" She ran foot-ract
with me around the room, then lait
both hands upon my shoulders and at
tempted to wave me about in the air
but the back of the chair to which
chung came out and we both fell bacl
upon our shoulder blades while al
angular pair of youthful legs togethe
with brilliant display of striped
stockings rose high in the air. w
were disentangled with some difficult.
and while the teacher was looking TO
her back hair, went home with fly
ing colors and orders not to return
| finally ended the boycott by resort
ing to arbitration, and was transferre,
to another room and the tende
mercies Of round faced little woman
teacher whose head had become wei
shaped in her long experience in til
school room. AS usual, soon kicked u
high links, and was ordered to sta
after school. l sized up her big rule
and well developed arms and decides
there was going to be trouble. | coul
hear the boys whistling and shoutin
outside and wished had been I'll
mercifully logged before the whol
school and allowed to 60. One by or
the scholars went out and finally W
were alone. down here to my desk,
q firm but unpleasant voice said, and
staggered up defiantly. The expectc
punishment came, but in differel
form from that expected. A pair
soft arms entwined themselves abo,
me. pair OF soft, motherly eyes lool
ed down into my rebellious youn
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