Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-03-21
THE PROFESSORS REVENGE.

? | greeted inc CIoNN vi HNGNCiC9 az tHe5
surged in one mass to the classroom on
q bright June morning.
Halo! what's the meaning Of this ?"
, said Pennington. The old fellow was
here as late as 10 o'clock last night, for
Z, ! was with him at the Science picnic yes
terday. and it ,Sas after 10 D. the tins
we got back. He's gone off mighty
quick!"
Perhaps he hadn't time to get his lee
ture ready" suggested one.
More likely his mothers dead" said
another.
"Ten to one he's in love, and gone off
to pop the question" added a third. At
this there was a general laugh, in which
you would have Joined if you had known
the professor Tall, lean and angular,
with a decided sto0p, and eyes that were
| screwed up almost TO vanishing point, he
was hardly the parsonage with whom to
associate any idea Of the tender passion
His age, too, was against him, though no
one knew exactly what that age was. If
| you saw him walking home from college
| along the esplaHQde YOU put him down
at 30; but when you saw his face agiow
with enthusiasm as he lectured on the
| beauties of the Greek particles, you
| changed your mind. and said he might be
| 80 Anyhow, he was not popular. His
dry Scotch humor was not appreciated;
it very often biz too deeply into the feel
| ings of his victim to be pleasant, and
all who came beneath the lash OF his
tongue bore him no small grudge for
what he made them suffer Then he
| lived absolutely apart from college life,
/ x,yit 40 gAbnr boY.c
of the staff Consequently he knew lit
tie of what was passing around him, and
was given credit for knowing still less.
! lie had never been known TO miss
| lecture; even when one morning he found
| on his arrival at college that his class
room had been burnt out in the night he
calmly remarked to the crowd OF students
near the door: 81 think, ladies and gen
| tlcmen. with your permission we will de-
| liver our lecture in the corridor" No
/ wonder, therefore, that there was no
| small stir wnen this historic notice stared
| the world unblushingy in the face.
Il wonder what it can be- said Eva
| Miller to her friend Jemima Bates, as
| they turned slowly from the classroom
| door and walked away down the cor
rider. Poor man, / am afraid there is
something wrong; and he has no one to
look after him or to do things for him.
1t seems n very lonely life"
oh. he's perfectly happy in his work"
| replied Iemima: "he doesn't want anyone
to look after him" Jemima Judged all
men land women) by her own feelings,
which is a dangerous thing to do.
II don't know said her companion.
doubtfully. However, it's no concern of
mine, SO I'm off TO the tennisfeld in
stead
Had She only known that it was a very
great concern OF hers, she would have
given the matter little more thought.
The previous day, as young Penning-
ton had said, had been the Science pic
mic Much to the surprise of everybody,
the professor finally accepted his invita-
tion-though he wrote first of all de-
Ginning. \ perusal of the list of the in
vited Arts" was the cause of his change
of mind. The fact was Prof. McNint was
in love; it had taken some time to con
vince him Of the fact and he had argued
it out pro and con. with himself in every
imaginable way. But from the conclu-
sion he could not escape; whatever his
premises, the deduction invariably came
out, Therefore | love her"
He began to notice it first in this way:
Into his mind as he was busy in the
preparation of his lectures. there would
creep the smreptitious thought, What
will she think of this? How will she
take that Then he found himself
thanking Providence that by its kindly
ordering the lady students sat in the
front row during lectures, and. there
tore. more within range OF his somewhat
limited vision. The next thing that he
was conscious of was that he was hunt
! ing high and low in his room for pair of
glasses, far stronger than those he gen
J orally used, and not at all necessary for
mere reading purposes. Two or three
: times he lost his place in his notes and
2 stood confused and put to shame before
the class, thing that had never hap
pened before in all his experience. Final
: ~, he came to the conclusion that the tie
g which he had been wearing when the
: senior student was a freshman. and which
he had worn ever since. was Il little the
worse for wear and must be replaced,
and then what he had long suspected
broke fully on his mind. Such a whole
sale revolution could mean but one thing!
Thus 1t came to pass. that on noticing
the name of Eva Miller among those in
: vitcd TO the picnic, the professor suddenly
changed his mind. He was Il man of few
: words and prompt deeds, He would try
I his luck that very day.
: To describe his feelings during the
e drive to the scene OF action would be inn
possible. Strangely ont Of place in the
middle of the cha,tering crowd, distrust-
ing his own powers, and yet so bold as to
amaze himself. the professor sat alone
r and neglected in n corner of the brake.
IL The Kindness of heaven. however, aided a
y httle by the cunning of man. had placed
n the object of his alteration almost oppo-
. site him. 40 while he gazed blankly into
a | space. and was supposed by anyone who
: gave him passing thought to be elab-
Il Grating new treatise on The Particles. IS
= he could all the time feast his eve unob-
II served on the vision OF beauty not two
It yards away Lunch eaten the whole