The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-15

UNIT LOUISE was opposed %
j "a the public school.
l<AI Uncle Charlie said he feared
HS1aSfj Aunt Louise aid not appreciate
(&HEGl the democratic institutions OF
her country.
Emmy Lou caught tho word demo-
cratic; later she had occasion to con-
slider 1t further.
Aunt Louise said that Uncle Charlie
was quite right In his fear, and the end
was that Emmy Lou was started TO pm
rate school
= parlor; and there being pupil more
than there were accommodations. ana
Emmy Lou being the newcomer, her
portion was rocking chair and Jap
board.
There was not even real teacher.
only an old lady who called ono my
lear"
Al home Emmy Lou cried with her
head buried in Aunt Cordeua's nav
bolster shnm: for how could she CONFESS
10 Hattie and to Resale that It was a
parlor and d lapboard7
Upon consultation. Uncle Charlie snid
let her do as she pleased, since damage
TO her seemed TO be Inevitable either
way. So Emmy Lou, rejoicing, DO
parted one morning for tho grammar
school.
public school being different from pri-
cate school, Emmy Lou at once began to
learn things For instance, at grammar
school one no longer speaks OF boys IN
undertones. One assumes an attitude
Of having always known boys. AZ gram
mar school classes attend chapel. There
are boys In chapel. still separated from
the girls, to be sure. after the manner
of the goats from the sheep; but after
ono learns to laugh from the corners OF
ones eyes at boys dividing line OF mere
aisle is soon abridged. Watching ROSA
lie. Emmy Lou discovered this.
There was n boy in chapel whom she
knew, but It takes courage to look OUT
OF the corners OF ones eyes, and Emmy
Lou could only find sufficient to look
straight, which Is altogether o ditferent
thing. But the boy saw her. Emmy LOU
locked away quickly. ,,,
Once the boys name had been Billy;
later, at dancing school, It vas Willie !:
now the principal who conducted chapel
exercises called him William.
Emmy Lou liked this principal. He mao
white hair. and when II fell into MS
,yes he would stand II wildly over his
head running his fingers through It's
thickness: but ono did not laugh, because
Of greater interest In wnat no saiu.
Emmy Lou asked Rosalie the princi-
nails name, but Resale was smiling
backward at boy as the classes nled OUT
o. tho chapel Afterward she explained
that his name was Mr>tPagc.
At grammar school Emmy Lou contin--
ued 10 learn things. The pupils OF
grammar school abjurs school basH;
a geography now being folio volume
measurable in square feet. It Is the shlns
~ build upon its basic foundation an
< ndifice of other text books, and carry the
rum total to and fro on an aching arm.
Nor do grammar school pupils orins
lunch; they bring money. ana Duy iun 'un.
! : ar,t uhv
fone with the infant pabulutn OF pri-
mary bread and butter
Nor does SO big a. girl as grammar
school pupil longer confess TO any IN
f;nite abbrcviation OF eHttlement' sne
gives her full baptismal name and IS
Emily Louise Pope MaoLaaren. Whlch
has il. drawbacks; for she sometimes
fails to recognize tho unaccustomed
SCUM dof that name when called une1-
lectedly from the platform.
For at twelve years. an Emmy Lou
f1nds herself dreaming. and watching the
clouds. through tho school room windows
,rhe reading lesson concerns one Aans-
char. the BARRIERS NTH brother, and
while the verses 20 droningly round, the
kalsomined blue walls fade, and one
wanders the market place OF Bagdad.
amid bales of rich stuffs. and trays OF
golden trinkets and mysteries that trou-
Z
eunuchs and seraglios. khans. mosques.
drachmas-one has no Idea what they
mean. nor does one care; on every hano
in life lie mysteries. why not IN. BOOKS !
The thing is. to seize upon the story. ano
to let the other go.
And SO Emily Louise falls to answer
10 the baptlsn,al fullness OF her name
spoken from the platform. until at q
yeighbor's touch she springs up. blushlng.
But, somehow. she did not take the
reproach in Miss Amandas voice 70
heart; Miss Amanda was given to saying
reproachfully. Please, p!ple-e-ase-you
ladies'" many times day. but after
brief pause one returned to pleasant cons
verse with neighbor.
Jokes were told about Miss Amanda
among the girls, and. gathering at recess
about her desk. her pupils would banter
Miss Amanda as to who was her lavor-
tie. whereupon she, pleased and fiattered.
would make long and detailed refutatlon
of any show of Partially.
Miss Amanda pinned bow IN her
hair, and wore a chain, and rings. and
was given to frequent patllng ana push
ing OF her hair into shape; was IT poss1-
HE Miss Amanda felt herself TO be-pretty:
rot think much about her one way or
another. except at those times when
Miss Amanda tried to be funny; then
she quite hated her with unreason'ng
fierceness. @
Right now Miss Amanda was desiring
Emily Louise MacLauren to give atten-
ton.
Once a week there was public recitation
In the chapel. Mr. Page considered It
sood for boys and girls to worn together,
Which was a new way OF regarding 1t
peculiar to grammar school, Tor hitherto.
boys, like the skull and cross bones bot
Ties in Aunt Cordelia's closet, had been
things to be avoided.
.To-morrow.'' Miss Amanda was ex-
.laining, "the chapel recitation will be
IN grammar; you Will conjugate." MISS
Amanda simpered he yerb-to love"
With playful meaning IN her emphasis;
"but need have no. fear. young. ladies'"
erchly, "that you Will Jet yourselves be