The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-16
WEARY MOTHER
NOW HAS EASE
The Roilicking Youngsters Are Safely
Housed For Five Days a Week.
NEARLY 1000 KIDS ENROLLED
For the Fall Term of kaIspeII Pub
lie neutrality-suspicious. of Teach
ers and Other Matters of School
Discipline and Detail.

'.And then the whining schoolboy
with his satchel and shining morning
face, creeping like a snail unwilling
1y to school" So the great poet
sketched the boy so many of us
know. There were some hundreds of
long vacation was then ended. And
yet the picture is not altogether true
to life. Strange though it may seem,
some boys like to go to school. And
the girls also of Kalispell wear the
shining morning face, too, but do not
creep unwillingly to school. But will
ing or unwilling as the individual
youngsters may be, large percent
age of the mothers of Kalispell
heaved a sigh of heartfelt thanks
Monday, when the roll was called.
Nobody wants to deprive the chill
dren of their inalienable right to
have a good time, but it is almost as
hard to keep up with rowing sky
rocket or a streak of mirror-refiected
light as with boy on devilment
bent.
Most of them are on devilment
bent from the time the school closes
until it opens in September.
There is something restful in the
knowledge that for a few hours every
day the boy or the small girl is safe
from the irrigating ditch, safe from
the delivery wagon safe from the
bonfire sparks, safe from the dozen
of other direful possibilities
Such knowledge is worth the worry
and bother of seeing that faces are
washed, hair combed, jackets and
dresses brushed and cleaned, stock
ings mended and shoes polished.
Nor are the mothers the only ones
that will enjoy period of restful-
ness.
The fidgety woman without any
children of her own will thank good
ness that lot of rascally boys are
not continually running over her
lawn, picking her flowers and stuffing
themselves with her green fruit and
yelling like Injuns all day long.
The crusty old man with the pet
rabbits, and the prim old maid who
loves her. kittens, rejoice with an ex-
ceedingly great joy
Now the troubles of the teachers
begin.
People who labor under the impress
sion that the teachers have what is
commonly called "snap" should try
to govern a school room for about
two weeks in the beginning of
term.
At the end of that time it is GER
tainty that those people will be will
ing to make affidavit that the teach
ers earn every cent they get, and
more.
The city schools opened for the
fall and winter term with an attend
ance of about $50 pupils, but as there
has been a large number who have
Joined since that time it is estimated
that there are fully 800 pupils at the
present time. There are sixteen
teachers engaged allotted among the
grades as follows:
Central School.
First Primary-Mrs. 3. l.. Geddes
and Mrs. Caroline Thwaites.
Second Grade-Isabelle Ferguson
Third Grade-Margare A. King
Fourth Grade-Catherine Moloney.
fl1th Grade-Effie B. James.
Sixth Grade-Jennie G. Eaton.
Seventh Grade-Lillian Blachley.
Eighth Grammar Grade-Mary Gill
liland.
West Side School.
First Primary-Sadie Shaffer.
Second Grade-Jessie Hall, Edna
Knapp.
Third Grade Catharine Fingado.
Fourth Grade-Caroline Horribly.
Fifth Grade-Angelique Truchot.
Sixth Grade-Ina Craven.
Owing to the fact that the accom-
modations for the primary pupils are
Inadequate, the first year scholars
are divided into two divisions, one
division attending school in the fore