The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1899-10-03

little woman, quite slender ans
mlld.mAnncred, she had kept Lawrence
and one or two othou under such iirn
discipline that even they could neyo
understand how she did It. Lawrcnc,
fell In with the Allen boy and som,
more boon companions, They. too, hai
new school suits and werc In condl
ton OF doubt.
The hrat day Of school. No other
day In the calendar IL just like II. The
nchoolhouao doesn't seem like the same
old place. with its freshly whltonod
walls ana general suggestion OF house
cleaning. There are strange children
who have moved In and some OF the
old ones have moved out. The rcclta-
tipn roo'n OF the graders has be-
come ,hs home Of the fourth graders.
who feel their promotion kecnly and
wonder how they ever could have been
satisfied In the other place which has
now become the abode of the KIDS
The new and marvelously clean books
seem q little hard over In the last half
and are over 70 much larger than the
old ones. The beginning OF the new
year dos not upset everything. Some
who sat Ia back rows are now In front
seats, Lawrence who had becn kept
~ In front BY Mas Holden. selected
a place In the back. as Ear from the
teachers desk a. he could plant him
self, She was therc when he arrived
a rather buxom woman OF 20. wearing
a Eray cloth gown. They called her Miss
Durham. Che smiled upon Lawrence
and inquired his name in the sweetest
manner possible. On her desk was q
boquet OF flowers Miss Durham ap-
pearcd such a gentle soul that Law
renee WAS immensely relieved and told
the Leabefman boy tina, he wouldn't be
afraid Of her, Memory Ia short. lie
forgot that Miss Holden had Impressed
him In the same way Jus, one year be-
fore. on the frat day Of school the
teacher Ia always good naturcd. thsre
IL always u boluet of flowers. and the
children are always certain that they
viii never got into trouble with such an
lmlablc creature. In her opening
speech. Miss Durham cracked several
okea which caused bolsterous laughter.
Lawrence laughed very loud because
he wanted to get into her good Eracce
Ihe FIRST thing. He somehow imagined
hat all during the year she would
20 nothing but entertain them with
unny remarks. After her little
ipeech she began taking their names
10 as 20 prepar roll, Among the
lew pupils was big boy named
Murphy, Lawenee and few others
tudlcd him with much interest. feeling
hat they would know more about
lin later on. The drSt morning moved
moothly and pleasantly About the
'nly work 20 BE- done was 20 arrange
hc classes and give out the arst les
ona, When this had been accom-.
llshcd the new teacher said she would
xpcet 70 have them come hack pre-
ARID 10 begin In earnest and with that.
he let out school for the day. much
b the surprise and qualification OF
.awrcnce, who saw ten-mlle horse
ack ride In sight He was delighted
nth the new teacher, II wasn't every
sacher that told funny stories and let
ut school early. No, much We've
OF n good teacher now" was the re-
or, to his mother You'd better walt !
week or two" she suggested. Jaw.
he's All right. She let US out early. '
m Klad got into the ffth. Tomor-
Nv I'm going to take her some how- =
r."
you mus, be infatuated with her."
le aaid 'T'm afraid Il won't last"
r. HlEEias expressed the same opinion q
Iat evening "You walt until she
,tches YOU throwing wads," v
'sshe Won't catch me, I'm too quick :,
r her. r.sl ho.nr, IL,
Now, that's oontrite spirit, isn't :,
" asked Mr., Higgins Of his wife. h,
hen he leaned back In his chair and =
Nred, Don't do that" pleaded Mrs.
Iggins, "You are simply eneourag-
K TIE boy 10 get into mischief"
"oh, he's reformed now YOU'RE go 4
r TO Be good and set along with your n
" teacher; Isn't that so7"
You bet am" =
There now" 1
Time alone viii tell how Lawrence
cceeds, q