Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-10-03
A School RomaDce

| (NNl HADDEGS BENZ principal OF
| the Diogeues High School in the
far south side of Chicago left
the train at Cover Hill Station Wis,
where a teachers summer school was
In progress
Prof. Bent-he had sat in college
chair in his day-was 40 years old
His hair was trtle gray, his eyes
were kindly and his shoulders bit
stopped. He was going to the sum-
mer school to hear the natural history
| lectures Of Audubon Burroughs Wood,
and 10 get bit of nature first hand
| from the fields
At the big boarding house by the
brook with the great trees at its back,
| Thaddeus Bent met half a dozen teach
ers whom he knew and half a 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.
He 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 Desmo"u, principal of the
Plato school, wy up on Chlcago's
north side, She's just his opposite,
but Opposites get along Well so here
goes. And the assistant principal in
troduced Principal Thaddeus Bent TO
Dr{npinOI
himself in the company of Miss Des-
mond, on the veranda, the second
morning after his arrival. Theodosia
was little creature, with a trim fig
ure, a rather positive manner and
piquant nose on which rested a pair
Of glasses, Theodosla was 30, and adj
mtted 1t when 1t was necessary
What's your hobby, Prof. Bent?"
she asked. Every one of us has
hobby. or we wouldn't be here
well. | confess. Miss Desmond. to
Il 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
ing things. | haven't bit of sym
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 we'll Thank goodness l am
above the earth little bit The brain
and the understanding-thes be noble
themes Snakes and toads, oh, how can
your
We'll, | trust | am a little above
the creepers and hoppers at times.
There are the birds and the trees; they
appeal to me-"
"All of kind; mans ana woman's
mentality is the thing for me. I've
heard forty of Prof Searchers lee
lures on Mind already, and I'm going
to hear the other forty. Some Of the
other teachers have fallen away. They
are not true blue, though they made
much pretenSe mt the start Can't |
Introduce you to Prof. Searcher? He'll
convert YOU"
Pray forgive me, but I've heard
Searcher and | found him bore. but
I'll go II you'll take me-"
The1doSla blushed a bit She was
past even such remote hint at gal
lantry as this, she had thought
NO, l won't take tou," she said,
but you may come IL 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 Hll. 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 antagonlsms she at
tracted him little.
ON one OF the excursions he found
| himself alone with her in woodland
path Each had hooks. What have
YOU there. Prof Bent|' asked Miss
| Desmond
| II have L. II. Gosse, a man too little
read now. and Burroughs, and White
| of SelbOrne. They are fun If frogs
and snakes and foxes and BIRDS
| rheodoSia Desmond tossed her head
ami her piquant nose became as near
pert AS her 81 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.
Mell thaE.a | I'D moi mann tn be rude