Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-09-02
FRAULEIN WILDERHEIN.

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into the woods and thickets; flowers
dropped their pretty heads from
drought; no breeze nor breath Of wind
stirred the air. and the whole earth
lay parchod and baking under the bra
zen. burning heavens. Heated labor
was In full swing in the school room
where Frauline Wilderhein presided.
Who in looking back ever remem-
bers lessons learned in cold weather
There were, / suppose-there must
have been--bitter frosty days when one
studied Colenso and Otto; when one
learnt the highest mountains and tho
longest rivers and wrote lists OF dates.
But In our memories it is only The hot
sultry hours that live. aud make US
believe at last that that knowledge
which now so eminently distinguishes
ns was gained in kind OF volcanic
glow.
Work was in full swing. Ethel, ut
the old tinkling piano cheerily ratified
oa5 at full speed a funeral march of
Chopin's giving it even a merry
sound. Billie having failed to con-
vince his governess that he had no
need for arithmetic because he al
ways intended To pay ready money
when he grew up, unobtrusiyely
squeaked his pencil up and down. his
slate in a corner and drew pictures
on 1t with moistened thumbs.
Little Evelyn. with the look OF i'm
penetrable idiocy she assumed rs she
entered the schoolroom sat with
The Pet Lamb" before her the book
covered with tears dirty marks and
little crosses which marked her
weary progress.
"The dew was falling fast, the stars began
TO blink
heard q voice. It said, 'Driak, pretty
creature, drink"
For two years this had formed par t
Of her allotted task.
Poppy had herself decreed that
reading aloud was part OF lady's edu-
cation and she gabbled breathlessly
through one OF SCOTS novels, the
heated Fraulein coming heavily after
her, pointing with lead pencil along
the lines. lila flushed with her
chair tilted back at an acute angle,
which only long practice could achieve
acclaimed from u book illustrated
with dirty little ink pictures. drawn
as a slight recreation in the midst OF
harder labors.
All around the margin were scat
tered little skeletons. little men fight
ing and running frightful out of-door
ladies extraord inarily formed babies
with huge heads hideous pictures OF
Tilla in her Sunday fro k. and Frau
lein as a child; hearts with arrows
sticking in them labeled Pierced
Hearts" and tumble-down huts tick
eted, Peaceful Cots"
In the beginning Iilla's name was
written in blood with match. and
her address given as Till Gray. the
Beautiful England. Europe, The
World. Universe. +" Also her genoa
logical table beginning with Adam
and going down TO Noah through
Abel. taking jump 10 William the
Conqueror and. with Charles l. as u
kind of stepping stone. arriving at
..TiIla the Beautiful"
Every row and then thi, young
person lost her precarious balance.
and with scream tumbled sack
wards. chair and all against the tall
fender. Fraulein. or one Of her sisters.
would pull her up by the leg. and un-
abashed she pursued her studies.
Tilla had studious turn; also a pro-
found dlstrust of her preceptress' 5
capabilities. Fraulein banged fur
iously on the table with her closed
fist and screamed excitedly whenever
asked to expound any point-a habit
which engendered distrust. and pre-
vented the lucid explanation Of any
difficulty.
Tilla therefore carried on her
education in method OF her own
with which she would brook no inter-
ierence-by means OF French and q
German Key and an entirely new
and wonderful system OF arithmetic
she invented for herself by which
each sum took exactly a week to do
There was still a sixth pupil who
at that moment lay painting fat on her
face under the bed in her own room
This was not as might have been
supposed. new method OF torture in
vented by her teacher Mother did
the sixth pupil altogether voluntarily
choose this way OF spending long
hot summers a ternoon.
The matter stood thus: When Frau
leiu's pupils became too outrageously
naughty she sent them out of the
schoolroom, aud when their father
met the re FACTORY pupils outside he
punished them. II. however. he did
not happen to fall In with his disc.
bedient offspring all went we'll and
the most unlikely place to meet ones
father was under the bed.
The window stood wide open-a
Sign OF excessive heat; for only the
most sultry weather would induce
Fraulein Wilderhein TO open them
even a chink They were generally
tightly closed. aud red flannel bag
made by Fraulein's own hand-care-
fully laid across them to exclude
every draught. Pools OF water lay
on the floor which had been watered
by some scholar who had conceived
this brilliant plan OF making the
apartment cooler when Fraulein had
not been In the room
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