Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-21

"No: thanks" said. The excellent
Carter has just asked me the same ques-
ton. But I've had some tea and would
rather wait until your father comes
down. Have you had breakfast"
Not yet. | thought / would have
breakfast with you two this morning
! said that would be charming.
She took me off TO see the garden and
the stables. On the way it occurred to
her that it would be pleasant to have
breakfast on the lawn.
I'VE do sometimes, when it's good
morning like this"
thought the idea capital. She called
up an Undergraduate and said with
much dignity:
Would you kindly go up to the house
and let Carter know that we should like
breakfast on the lawn this morning."
II was very quaint was amused.
While she was showing me her own po-
my she suddenly asked If | considered
that music was as difficult to learn as
writing.
said that il was more dif1lcult-more
heart-breaking. ! ought really, i'm self
defense to have put it much stronger
than this. | had guessed what would
happen. had made her want to learn
music, and she would learn II, and-this
was the horror of it, was 10 give her
her first lessons. ] had always been in
the habit of saying that l believed there
must be special reward hereafter for
music teachers, because in this life they
have TO suffer more than any other men.
II was at breakfast time that the mo-
ment arrived when / felt that | had
e.th-r TO consider myself a brute or to
offer to teach Wilmay the piano set
my teeth and made the offer She
thanked me and said that II would be
lovely, but that she must not bother me
and take up my time. That, Of course.
finished it. by the end of breakfast |
was imploring as a privilege to be al
lowed to teach Wlimay the piano, and
Wilmay was sweetly and graciously
consenting. / told Philip afterwards
that | thought that in common decency
he ought TO have protested and said ,
firmly that he would not allow any/
guest Of his to be turned INTO music
master in his house he smiled II
said that he could not seeit. I
"very well, then" Iarswere/
will have regular hours for thoJles-
sons and keep to then, and b/A up
your go-as-you-please gstem/
AT this he only smiled ah' VII
may and | decided uIpn reIar hourS'
and sometimes we kept to /tm. / may
perhaps, have forgjtteYhOouI thenl
three or four timern( more. AS
pointed out to Phili, fas better than
wilmay was an 81 Silent pupil. She
learned very q1fiy, DIt then she
worked Of her Of accord far harder
,ban most cbildJ would have worked
under ccrnnuIe/ j do not pretend
that these iess{ were an unmixed joy
70 me 7 doI If elementary lessons
on the nianob a child Of ten are ever
An nnmjxedby to anybody. But had
evnecfed tT they would be very much
,yorse yinay really loved music.
AZ a reDn for my existence, music
seemed do even better than choco-
Iates tough probably those four boxes
belpe,o 90 solve the problem.
haffed Philip occasionally about
his Sstem Of educating a child by leav-
~ out the education and allowing her
do as she liked. But, speaking seri-
dsly, that. system had answered adj
with Wilmay. 1t seemed 10
have given her a spirit. an independ-
s1ce, a readiness of initiative, that one
very rarely finds in children Of that age.
She knew what to do. And l confess
Dry in both casesIthe least possible in
il. she was not spoiled. She seemed to
have an innate sweetness, tenderness
and unse,fshnesS Of nature that was
proof against spelling. She gave or
ders to the servants just as Philip would
have done, and the servants were appa-
rently instructed to take her orders as
his own, but | never heard her give a
hictatorial or unreasonable order. or
omit 70 thank a servant who had done
anything for her Her own woman,
Mrs. Blayd, was devoted 10 her. Mrs.
Blayd was a blend Of nurse, governess
and ladys maid, and also rather gave
one the impression that she was a lady
herself She was a middle-aged wo-
man, very quiet and reserved. Philip
told that she had been with Wilmay
ever since her birth.
(To Be Continued)