Evening star., 1900-08-18

department. and after sDrinkling the street
for this lord mayors procession he got
day off, the first holiday he had had. That
first holiday he spent from beginning to
end in his old school yard.
She Pounded the Teacher
Just now the school is up in arms over
the descent OF the revengeful mother upon
the teacher who punished her little girl
The teacher was frail slip of a woman
and the mother the sort of fat giantess
that you can see crouched in her doorway
all day long guzzling whisky. or else out in
the alley fighting, or shining in the refined
circle round the bar of the pub" The lit
tie girl had wandered from the straight and
narrow way once before and been punished
for il, and that time as sometimes han
pens the loving father waited upon the
teacher and politely notified her that he
would beat her down to the ground if she
ventured to correct the girl again.
After the second offenSe and the second
reckoning. the mother laid" for the teach
er when she left the school. blackened both
her eyes. pulled out some of her hair and
frightened her into a state of collapse The
part of the whole operation that makes the
school people maddeSt. however. is that
when the case came before an especially
dunderheaded specimen of the London po-
lice magistrate he not only let the attack
ing party off with a small fine. but deliv-
cred a little lecture in her favor in which
he expressed the valuable opinion that
there shouldn't be any Furnishing in schools
should reign in its stead.
Afraid to Go Alone.
The head master remarked that the af-
fair would probably yield a perfect harvest
of complaints from other indignant moth
ers AT home maternal remonstrance takes
the form of "heaving" the nearest bottle
but they all are extremely touchy about
the treatment of their young barbarians in
school, SO in regard to girls than
/ ht. ri
the pet, and it is on the cards that the
daughter of the house ferru!ed at school
Is taken to a music hall at night as a sort
of balm for her injured feelings
For the rod in this school is not a fig
ure of speech. 1t is stout young rod, ap-
pied for minor offenses to the hand, for
heavier cnes to another portion of the hu-
man frame. There is also an odd punish
ment book, in which every case that calls
for and receives chastsement is entered
name, date and offense-and the teacher is
careful to add note that the correction
was not inflicted in passion" They rather
rub 1t in by making the shivering urchin
fetch the book and rod
Trouble with parents is becoming the ex-
cepton rather than the rule. When the
school first opened the teachers were palted
regularly on their way there and back and
sometimes attacked. SO that they used to
come and go in a body. Occasionally there
were organized rebellons In the school
rooms. and it was not rare for a teacher to
hear himself addressed bloody mon
heS 10 nave 10 uOUSe an accurately
thrown slate. AT that time even policemen
went through the neighborhood in pairs
only.
Head Masters Introduction.
The head master, describing his own in
PRODUCTION to the neighborhood, says that
on arriving he beheld a gang of slouching
coster boys on the corner, one of whom in
dicated him thus: "Ah, 'eres the new cad
marster. Say, amt e a fatty?" Like the
hero OF many an absorbing work for the
young, the head master marched boldly up
to the gang and told them that the time for
dispassionate criticism of him would arrive
after they knew more of each other, when
they might find they liked him. In the
meantime the precept to be kept in mind
was that he wouldn't stand any nonsense.
The professor admits that the hardest few
minutes work that he ever did was the
walking deliberately down to the corner
with his back to the gang after the delivery
of his def" Now, he says, he gets
friendly nod from almost every one.
Diversion.
The last one was attended rather thinly
there being a rival attraction in the shape
of an encounter between two of the moth
ers. which took place in the street opposite
the school. popularity known as the
Ditch" This struggle came as a pleasant
variation of the weeks monotony, was
largely attended. and regarded in the light
they were almos. naked, when one of the
combatants retired. The other lady, how
ever. remained on the field all afternoon at
regular intervals requesting her opponent
to come forth and try conclusions again.
Naturally, despite this neighborhoods lit