The morning news., 1897-11-30

lively small number are distinguished
teachers. Those who put the thought OF
career aside and look on their study and
soJourn abroad as a step toward general
culture get the most out of the experience
They have the good time without the
heartburning. Their lessons with Joachim
or Wirth, Barth or Moskowsh NAV not
always be unalloyed pleasure, owing to
their own stupidity or the well-known i'm
patience or a great music master, but tho
benefit will be just as great and the pleas
ure twice as much as that experienced by
the poor girl who feels that the sun cannot
shine when the master frowns
BE her object what 1t may, the girl who
likes to do well everything she attempts
viii meet with discouragements enough
When studying in Germany. The chances
are that her Instructor no matter what
he teaches, IS a Tartar. She probably
VIII not suspect IL the first time they
meet. He will fiatter her and fawn upon
her, and rub his hands and bow and smirlS
and call her "Meine liebe Mees Schmidt .
III her name Is Smith, or "Meine gnadtge
Mees Schmidt" or anything else that
sounds sweet and unctuous But some
day when she forSets how TO coniuRate
the verb he may surprise her by throw
Ing tho book at her heaa or on the hoor
and laundering out 10-syllable invective.
lie is quite likely to run his fingers
through his hair then until he looks like
the wild man Of Borneo, and to talk until
he is purple in the face. while he ca
Vorts around the room, knocking down
whatever furniture may be in his path. If
MISS smith attempts to answer back, woe
to her. He tells her that her accent il
MT 10 burst the ear drums of such n re-
fined creature as himself that she doesn't
known anything, never did and probably
never viii, that she can't think or talk
or write or even learn. stranger listen
ing would certainly think that Miss Smith
must be only desirable as an addition TO
the society within an asylum for the feeble
minded. But after she has recovered a
few times from the shock of humiliation
and Indignation which his words give her.
she learns to take his fits of temper
philosophically. She watches his face and
waits for the returning smile.
If her teacher is a woman the AnerI-
can girls trials are even greater. The re-
action on the woman teachers part takes
the form Of inordinate affection She
Weeps over Miss Smith By way of ex-
cuse she sobs out all her family troubles
on her pupils shoulder Then after kiss
Ing Miss Smith, who by this time rs quite
limp she wipes her own eyes, blows her
nose sets her cap straight. and briskly
begins the lesson again. Then honey i'm
the honeycomb is not sweeter than she
But honey nauseates some persons Miss
Smith is addressed as my dear little an
gel, my lovely dearie," my poor little
worm my own darling heart" and so
on, until another storm begins to brew.
German teachers, most notably the wo-
men, seem to be so constituted that thew
love big row for the sake of the recon-
ciliation that follows That such a row
might be omitted never occurs to them
To the German artistic temperament es-
pecially 1t seems absolutely essential in
the rise and fall of every little dramatic
action. Even the uneducated people have
a certain modification of the artistic in
their composition. What, then, could one
expect Of the masters? Then It has be-
come a fixed theory in German pedagogy
that pupils thrive IN AN atmosphere of dis
couragement.