St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-18

! Choking through the professors when
i. she didn't know her lessons. | imagined
| the terror in the infant soul when those
! deep-set eyes behind somDer spectacles
observed him. Pve seen her look hole
through penny.
Department is one of the trials of
school children's life, as it is OF grown
peoples, except when they have had, as
example, the professor of department i'll
Bleak house. 1t is very hard for active.
nervous organizations to behave six
long hours, and they probably would
not think Of whispering and 'cutting
up if the rules weren't so rigid. A
little girl was discussing school mate
with her brother. The talk was some
| what indefinite, but very venomouS, SO
that the
Obnoxious Child's Left Ear
must have been live coal. | listened
closely, but failed to get anything tan
gIble out of the conversation.
"What is the matter with Alice|' l
finally inquired.
Matte paused moment, perhaps to
define the matter in her own mind, per-
haps to think of the worst thing pos
sible.
"Why, she always gets excellent in
department." she replied, with the air
of a grand duchess, who probably didn't
get anything but p. or V. p. for her
standing.
Teachers always declare that they
never did such things when they were
children, like the Sunday school super
intendent who was the only little boy
who didn't die young. The pupils are
quite likelv to wonder if the teacher
ever was child. A pedagogue in one
of the ward schools surprised her
scholars very much by telling them that
she used to do just such things.
"Oh! Miss S." said one astoniShed
little girl, "you are the first teacher
ever had who SAID she wasn't an angel
when she went to school,"
Murder will out, and you might as
we'll confess that you were once human
if you are verging Oh the fossil age OF
pedagogues.
One bright st. Paul teacher has way
of getting more work out of her pupils
than even they know. Hard tasks are
given as reward of merit, and they are
made 10 think it something great to do
a thing. The other week she wanted
them to learn Bryant's "Thanatopsls."
The pupils had been having great diff
two in their proper places. But they
finally conquered, and so she told them
they might learn "ThanatOpss." OF
course they told with -glee to their
schoolmates that they, conquerors of
the word to. had been permitted to learn
'Thanatopsis." The next morning the
pupils in Miss RS other English class
came in with the humble request:
Teacher, mightn't we please learn that
'ThapanODSiS.' " OF course she was too
wise to let them, but doubtless she got
an extra amount of work out of 4poth
classes Cd that score. We can all re-
member when we
Payfd Truant
unless we beloL ged to the minimum
number of good little boys and girls
who didn't die LDung. Outdoors was
so enticing after we had been shut
up III the school rom long hours that
we simply cut at recess and had a
serious time inyenting ar excuse. The
next generation hasn't improved much.
Rebellion against school room thralldOm
seems TO be innate in the childish
breast. Here are some of the excuses
offered a teacher last week: My mother
had historical tea. and | had to stay
out and help her. l went to Schune-
man d EVANS opening and didn't have
time to get my lessons; my chum's SIS
ter got married, and went to the we'd
ding; | went to sleep accidentally, and
when | woke up it was too late to study.
Composition papers are often source
of amusement, and the boy who writes
essays on cats is often surpassed in the
inventive genius of his mistakes by the
really, truly boy in the ST. Pail schools.
One of the teachers gave as sub
ject for compositions the book liked
best. The reports were as different as
the children. Miss Alcott's stories led
the list in popularity Capt. Marryat
was a favorite. One sentimental miss
preferred Roe's Near to Natures