The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-31
Copyright by Mcclure. Phillips & co.

~ OUBLE names are childish
"a things; therefore Emmy
E Lou entered the high
n 81 school as Emily Mac
49, Lauren.
Her disapproval of the
arrangements she found
there was decided. High school pu-
pills have no abiding place, but are
nQmadic in their habits and enforced
wanderers between shrines Of learn
ing, changing quarters as we'll as
teachers for every recitation; and the
meet the varied temperaments Of sue
Cessive teachers is wearing on the
temper. 3. -.
Yet there is a law in the high
school superior to that of the teacher.
At the dictates of a gong classes arise
In the face of a teachers incompleted
peroratton and depart. AS for the
pupils, there is no rest for the soles Of
their feet; freshman in the high
school is a mere abecedarian part Of
an ever-moving line, which tolls,
weighted with pounds Of textbooks,
up and down the stairways Of knowl-
edge, climbing to the mansard heights
for rhetoric. to descend. past doors to
which 1t must later return, to the
foundation floor for ancient history.
Looking back at the undulating line
winding in dizzy spiral about the stair
ways, Emily, at times, seemed to her
self to be vertebrate part of some
long, forever uncoiling monster, one
Of those prehistoric, seen-before- in
dreams affairs. She chose her figures
knowingly, for she was studying zool-
ogy now.
Glasses went to tho laboratory for
this subject, filing into an ampht-
sheater Of benches about Miss Car
michael, who stood in the center Of
things and wasted no time: she even
clipped her words, perhaps, that they
might not impede each other in their
flow, which lent disconcerting curt
rapidly Of the same. Indeed, Miss
Carmichael talked so fast that Emily
got but a blurred impression Of her
surroundings, carrying away dazed
consciousness that the contents Of GER
tain Jars to the right and left Of the
lady were amphibian in their nature,
and that certain other objects In skin
leering down from dusty shelves were
there because Of saurian claims. And
because man is a vertebrate, having an
internal, jointed, bony skeleton, man
stood IN glass case behind the oracu-
lar priestess of the place in awful, ar
ticulated, bony whole, from which the
newly initiated had constantly to drag
their fascinated, shuddering gaze Not
that Emily wanted to look; indeed, she
had no time to be looking, needing it
all to keep up with Miss Carmichael
discoursing in unpunctuated, poly
syllable flow Of things batrachian and
ables falling from the lips of the
wicked daughter in the story book,
proved later to be toads and lizards.
Miss Carmichael was short and
square, and her nose was large. She
rubbed it with her knuckle like man.
She had rubbed it one day as she
looked at Emily, whom she had called
upon as 1.-The girl who answers to the
name of MacLauren."
1t was not f1attering way to be
designated, but freshmen learn to be
grateful for any identity. Then, too,
Miss Carmichael was famed for her
w.t. and much is to be overlooked in
be bad manners. Once Emily had
been hazy about the word wit, but now
she knew. If you understand at once
1t is not wit; but If, as you begin to
understand, you find you don't that is
apt to be wit. Miss Carmichael was
famed for hers.
Thus called upon, the girl who
answered to the name Of MacLauren
stood up. The lecture under discus
sion was concerned with a matter
called perpetuat1on of type. Under
fire of questions it developed that the
pupil In hand was sadly muddled over
Under such circumstances, it was a
way with Miss Carmichael to play with
the pupils mystifcation. "'Be a kit
ten and cry new" said she, her eyes
swapping with the humor Of it. why
NEW and not baa? Why does the
1amlly OF cow continue to wear
horns?"
Why, indeed? There wasn't anv
HAnSe. Fn0}ov falf MI
michael here evidently decided it was
time to temper glee with something
else: Emily was prepared for that.
having discovered that wit: Is uncertain
in Its humors.
to rerre organ not EXERCISED uses
Miss Carmichael. Haven't you taken
down the lecturer"
Emily had taken down the lecture.
but she had not taken in the lecture
She looked unhappy. II don't think
understand it," she confessed.
plained?"
Emily had gone with questions ' con- onr
corning perpetuation OF type to her
Aunt Cordelia.
What did you want to know!" de-
manded Miss Carmichael.
,About-about the questions at the
NS W. etAAo " GA LnaL one.
What makes types repeat them
selves 20
And what does?" said Miss Car
michael.
That is exactly what am trying to
find OUT aus ~
Emily looked embarrassed. Aunt
Cordelia's answer was the same ore
that she gave to all the puzzline
why's, but Emily did not want to give
1t here. ~ e4'0
Come, come, come" said Miss Car
michael. She was standing by her
table, and she raped it sharply. Ana
what does?" 1A'u
God" said Emily desperate1v
one telt the general embarrassment
as she sat down. She felt Hattie siva
quick look at her, then saw her
glance around. Was 1t for her?
Hattle's cheek was red. Rosalie. With
lap. 40 'i0i
In the high school some have passed
out OF Eden. while others are only an
proaching the fruit Of the tree.
Hattie glanced at her protectine1v
ana, tho Emily did not understand
Just why, she was glad, for Of late
she mad, been feeling apart from Hat
ne and estranged from Resale. and
altogether alone and aggrieved.
Hattie now wrote herself Harriet
and mad seemed to change in the pro
cess, tho Emily v,o J,o