Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-10-22
4 School Ron2apce

0D 1IADDEUS BENT principal of
the Diogcnes High School in the
far south side Of Chicago LETT
the train at Cover Hill Station Wis.
where Il teachers summer school was
in progress.
Prof Eent-he had sat in college
chair in his day-was 10 years old
His hair was Il trll1e gray. his eyes
We're kindly and his shoulders a bit
stopped. He was going to the sum-
mer school to hear the natural history
lectures of Audubon Burroughs Wood
and to get Il bit of nature first hand
from the fields
AT the big boarding house by the
brook with the great trees at it's back
Thaddeus Bent met half Il dozen teach
ers whom he knew and half hundred
whom he didn't know. The assistant
principal of the Diogenes was there,
and had been there for a month. She
felt bound to do her duty by her chief
She introduced him right and left
Then she put on her thinking cap.
lie won't care much for those friv
olous creatures just out of the nor
NAL" she said to herself. Hell want
some one to pair off with. Now, there's
Theodosia Desmond, principal of the
Plato school, way up on Chicag0's
north side. She's just his opposite
but opposites get along well, so here
goes" And the assistant principal in
PRODUCED Principal Ihaddeus Bent to
Principal Desmond. Prof. Bent found
himself i'll the company of Miss Des-
mond. on the veranda. the second
morning after his arrival. Theodosia
was a little creature, with trim fig
ure, Il rather positive manner and a
piquant nose on which rested a pair
of glasses. Theodosa was 80. and adj
mitted it when it was necessary.
"What's your hobby, Prof. Bent?"
she asked. Every one of us has a
hobby, or we wouldn't be here
''Well. l confess. Miss Desmond. to
weakness for natural history. l like
frogs. snakes. snails, turtles, water
bugs and the rest
Horrors. all of them. Excuse me-
but | thought you We're above creep
lIG lLli-S. ia Cil a w VI - III
pathy with you or with them. The
proper study of mankind is mainland
mans attributes, let me add. | study
mental philosophy. It's the only thing
worth studying. We don't get along
at all well. Thank goodness, l am
above the earth little bit. The brain
and the Observation-Disclosures be noble
,l-N III 1e oh hftr ~
you?'
well. trust l am little above
the creepers and hoppers at times.
There are the birds and the trees; they
appeal to me-"
''All of kind; mans and woman's
mentality is the thing for me. I've
heard forty of Prof Searchers lee
lures on Mind already and Pm going
to hear the other forty. Some of the
other teachers have fallen away. They
are not true blue though they made
much pretcnse at the start. Can't |
Introduce you to Prof. Searcher? He'll
convert you"
Pray forgive me, but I've heard
Scarcher and I found him bore, but
III go if you'll take me-
The1dosia blushed a bit. She was
past even such a remote hint at gal
lantry as this. she had thought.
mo, | won't take you" she said,
"but YOU may come If you will. Go
well up to the front. Prof. Scarcher
does not speak any too clearly, and
sit up there mean you can hear bet
ter UP there
There were excursions into the woods
and fields arranged by the teachers
assembled at Glover HILL Prof. Bent
took the tramps, and through the urg-
ing assistant principal. Theodosia Des-
mond occasionally went along This
student of man amused Prof. Bent,
and despite her antagonisms she at
tracted him little.
on one of the excursions he found
himself alone with her in woodland
path Each had books. What have
you there, Prof. Bent?" asked Miss
Desmond.
II have 2. II. Gosse, a man too little
read now, and Burroughs, and White
of Selborne. They are full Of frogs
and snakes and foxes and birds"
Thcodosia Desmond tossed her head
and her piquant nose became as near
pert as her 30 years would admit.
Trash. every bit of it." she said.
"There's nothing human about it,
surely there's human interest in the
lives of the frogs and in the loves of
the BIRDS
Loves of the birds. l thought you
We're beyond sentiment, Prof. Bent.
We'll. there, did not mean to be rude.