San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-21

has often reminded me of her policy
with Mrs. HathOrne az Cape May. 1t
was our first visit to the sea-we had
been used to spend our summers at my
grandfather's farmland before Mrs.
Hathorne appeared we had been allowed
to run wild with som- children whose
manners were not too bad. but whose
voices and appearance were of Pitts
burg, Pittsburgy: and imagine that we
were at times disagreeable. But when
Lofty and Gerty Hathorne appeared our
liberties were snatched from us.
On the beach we were attended by my
mothers maid. and my mother in the
meantime waited three days for another
servant Our dinners we took no longer
in the public dining hall, but at the
nurses and childrens table. The fine
muslins and broad sashes in which we
had delighted were laid aside, and we
soberly wore our fiannnl dresses all day
long. My mother took care to behave
in Mrs. Hathornes presence as if they
had exchanged positions, and the conse-
quence was that at the end of the week
we were familiar with the girls, and
Mrs. Hathorne had conversed amicably
with my mother upon the beach. do
not think, therefore, that Mrs. Hathorne
was greatly displeased some one or two
years afterward to find that Lefty and
| were in the same class at Miss May
burns and very likely to become init
mate.
look back to my school days with
gratitude, affection and regret. Accord
ing to my fathers preconceived notions
we ought to have been sent to board
lug school. but he was unable to make
up his mind to exile us from home, and
ne made no objection to our going to
Miss Mayburn, especially as hers was
supposed to be the best girls school in
town. With my mother, of course, it
was matter of calculations; for at that
time nearly all the girls whom it was
most important for me to know were of
Miss Mayburn's flock. think that the
five years spent under her care were
the happiest, in many ways, that l have
ever known. To be sure, while / was
there. my father died, and for some
time | was deeply afflicted: moreover,
during the last three years, that is, from
the time of my fathers death to the end
of my school days, was conscious that
my object at school should be to gain
something more than AN education.
Yet was ambitious enough to over
look my own insincerity, and fond enough
of my friends to be glad to try to bind
them closer to me, and, confess it, not
even the flush of my greatest triumphs
has been so grateful to me as was the
friendship, and, when | had it, the appro-
baton of Miss Mayburn. How we all
feared and worshiped her! How we all
admired her strength and vigor, her
wonderful culture and forgetfulness of
self, her keen sympathy and quick
humorI She was born to cheer and in
struct her own sex, not for the benefit,
except indirectly. of man. For my own
part she imbued me with fondness for
literature which was not wholly native
to me, and frightened the cords of my
resolution by the force Of hCr decided
Example Bat never copied her hand
writing. ~ nuas Of the G:r,j did.
II vuait Mis- Mpy5u"n'S school, then,
that lMl ~" foundations Of my success.
My mother was one OF the first to send
her daughters to that school III order to
get hem into society, bat | was probably
~ successful as any girl tAHt ever tried
the plan Some girls, c.5Ay from in
competence or pride. hay graduated as
hung tna.r flaxen heads and pulled at
tle;r dos ii 80, awful presence Of
Miss Mavburn My success was COM
plete. Lofty Hathorne became my most
intimate friend, and as the girls in my
class grew up was recognized as a
member of the little set that led the
school could draw caricatures,
,ould write passable rhymes, was the
ni'pr of the consolidated recess party
when that memorable controversy agi-
lated our class
Miss Mayburn iii our last year had
proposed to allow us to take only quar-
Ter hour reccSseS throughout the week,
..:d az I'M offset TO leave school an hour
,,ariier Oh Fridays. and when the girls
as:.i:. Il formed party. suggested
the mairuver of obtaining significant
and ominOus certificates from medical
experts (sOme of the girls fathers gave
us delightful opinions), argued the ques-
tion before the class in several stormy
recesses and won our case When we
acted | was always stage manager:
when we had our orgies was generally
chosen toast mistress. an Office which
was equivalent to Icing an executive
committee to get Miss Mayburn's per-
mission to buy the cake. the cream choc-
olates and the lemons. and to keep the