The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-08
BY MRS. GEORGE MADDEN R1ARTDEN.
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Emmy Gou in the FIFTH

| She reminded then, OF examination for
| the grammar school looming al,ead
1 A little later a tecond influx OF notes
Piled Miss Fanny's desk. Mary Agatha
and Kitty and Nora and Anne must &c
al noon. three times week. TO their con-
! firlnatlon class.
| Then Yetta and Paula could not come
al all on their instruction days. because
the Lutheran Church was far up town
( In Germanberg They, too. we're making
/ ready for confirmation.
Again. Miss Fanny reminded them all
| OF examination.
Just at this Time Emmy Lou was hnv-
I Ing trouble OF her own. II was Lent.
| which meant church three times week.
f, Aunt LolIe said Emmy Lou must go.
/ She said Emmy Lou. being now a big
girl, ought to want to go.
! Rosalie, being high. had church every
! nft ernoon. But Resale liked It. Emmy
I Lou feared she was the only ono In all
the class who did not like 1t.
| Even Sadie must enjoy church. For
one day she missed In every lesson and
lost her temper and crIed next day she
ttcn she told Emmy Lou about It; It
asked that Sadie lie excused for MISS
/ Ing, for because OF the revival at her
church, Sadie would be up late every
night.
Mr. Bryan was In tho room when Miss
Fanny rcnd this note. She handed It
to..hlm.
ITO ench year It's evils. I suppose"
faId Miss Fanny: ITO the primer It's
whooping cough and measles. to the first
reader the shedding of It's lncisors. With
the firth reader comes the inoculu ton
OF doctrines. we are living the ten
great religions"
MIR. Bryan latd tho note down. He said
he must caution Miss Fanny that ns
principal or as teacher neither he nor
she had anything to DO with the religions
OF the children entrusted TO their care
And he must remind Miss Fanny that
these problems OF school life could not DO
met with levity. He hoped Miss Fanny
would take this as he meant IT, kindly.
The class listened breathlessly. Was
Miss Fanny treating their religions with
lerlty7 What Is levity?
II was Emmy Lou who asked the 9th
ers when they sought to pin the accusn-
ton to Miss Fanny.
Mary Agatha looked Il up In the dc
tionary. Then she reported ''Lghtness
OF conduct. want OF weight, nconsist-
ency, vanity, rrlvolIty." She told II Off
with low and accusing enunciation.
II sounded grave. Emmy Lou was
troubled. Could Miss Fanny be- all this?
Could she be guilty OF levity7
II was soon after that Mary Agatha
brought a note She told Rosalo ard
Emmy Lou about It. It asked that
Mary Agatha be allowed a seat to her.
self. This. Mary Agatha explained. was
because, preparatory to confirmation. she
was trying 10 keep her mind from secu-
lnr things. and seat to herself would
help her to do It.
To Rosallc and Emmy Lou Mary Ara
tina was MS one already apart from things
secular. To them the look on her clear.
pale little profile was already rapt
But Mary Agatha went on to tell
them that she was different from Kitty
OF Nora. or tho others Of her confrmn.
ton class. 1t was because she was going
to be a bride Of heaven.
Rosnlie listened. awed. But Emmy Lou
did not quite understand.
Mary Agatha looked pityingly at her.