The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-03-03

scholars without 1t being put down as
corporal punishment by their parents. It's
about time they were closed, for the
school that doesn't have the support OF
the mothers and fathers can't be run sue
cessfuly but a dreadful short time. IL
kinder riles me up every time think
about IT, for I've no doubt those boys, al
most grown TO manhood. were deserving
OF all they got and a good deal more. And
II when they got home that night their
parents had shown them what corporal
punishment really was by giving them
good trouncing. that would have been the
last of Il, and they would have helped
that young lady teacher and the principal
OF the school I'm maintaining the kind OF
discipline that the community would be
proud OF.
l wish the young lady success, bid
her goodbye. and then started 10 find the
members OF the school committee, for j
wanted their opinion, and mustsay they
spoke in the highest terms OF Miss Rog-
ers and they explained that why they
sustained her In her mild punishment or
the boys was because this was her hrst
day as a teacher In the high school, and
these boys evidently intended to intimi-
date the new school marin. and so they
became very impudent and unruly. Just
10 show them she wasn't TO be intimida-
ted, and that order must be maintained.
she cuffed their ears or slapped their
faces with her hand.
And to think OF all this talk on ac-
count of that why. the best people OF
the city all say that the Pawtucket high
school Is one OF the best I'm the state, and
the discipline that is maintained by Mr..
Hosmer, the principal. will average with
any OF them, and that all OF the fault
finding is carried on by people who are
accustomed to strain at gnats and swal
low camels
Why / learned from good authority,
that Miss Rogers Is graduate OF the
high school, where she is now teaching.
graduate OF Wellesley College with the
degree OF Bachelor OF Arts and from
Brown University right here In your own
city. where she took the masters degree.
Been serving for four years as principals
assistant In one OF the grammar schools
OF the city, with marked success, and is
considered by everybody who knows her
as one Of the most brilliant teachers in
the state.
"The long and short OF the whole mat
ter" saws q member OF the school com
mttee. rests with a morning paper OF
the city OF Providence"
IT seems ii that paper had had sense
enough to keep it's everlasting mouth
shut, the incident would have been drop
ped and never considered Of any more
Importance than little emphatic and
necessary advice 10 some unruly boys.
But land Of goodness. that paper
couldn't keep still. Had TO tune IL UP
like some old woman who had got filled
iip with n lot OF gossip. and couldn't be
contented until she'd spread IL all over
the neighborhood. Made a great long
story about il. and destroyed the peace
OF mind Of a whole city for the sake OF
cabling about something.
When got home I says 10 Toleration,
Seems TO me the Journal ought to have
known better than TO have stirred up so
much strife among it's neighbors by print
ing such mess of stuff. It's certainly
old enough 10 know better"
"Old enough!" says he, whats age
got 10 do with II. Don't you know the
old saying has II that there's no fool like
an old fool
The whole affair makes me think Of
what happened at our school house down
10 Canterbury Centre last winter:
Everything had been going along
smoothly without the least might Of
trouble until the teacher. Miss Howard,
introduced the study OF astronomy and
what she called the phenomena OF the
heavens"
We'll one night Jasper Corning's young
est boy. who was sixteen. came home
and told his father. who was the chair
man OF the school committee. that the
teacher was giving them instruction about
the northern lights. which she said was
the "Roarer Bore Alice"
"Roarcr Bore Alice." says his father.
"Yeop" says the boy. that's what she
called H.
wal" says Jasper, that's the darn
dest nonsense I ever heard tell on" Then
turning TO his son he says. IF your
teacher wants TO teach you about the
northern lights I've no objections. but II
she gifts I'm any more Of them new tangled
NJ 'ans you needn't answer her ques-
tions"
But she'll lick me father" says the
boy.
mo danger of that" says Jasper. for
we've voted agin corporation punishment
for this deestrict for the present term.
All she'll do will be to ask you why you
don't recite. and then YOU can tell her
that your father says that Just plain
northern lights IL good enough for this
school. Were having too much nonsense
teached I'm tho school already. and We
don't want any moro ont"
Well the result was the boy did just
as his father told him to do, and the
teacher boxed his ears until he answered
her correctly.
There was another boy who had been
cuffed because the teacher thought he'd
been impudent although I thought. and
sod she afterwards. that IN the latter
case she was rather prema ture. and prob
ably would never have done II N she
hadn't been n little excited. This is the
way u was:
She had y class up In geography. and
when she asked the question how II hap