The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-31

~
and eight more hands were raised.
Prompting was reckless now and hands
sprang up in all directions.
NO, I don't think they do Miss
Langdon agreed. II think perhaps that
Heaven meant it just for you. Just for
the good little boys and girls in this
room"
The enthusiasm grew wild and gem
eral. Miss Langdon turned a glance of
triumph upon Miss Bailey and was
somewhat surprised by the very scar
let confusion which she saw.
Its all in the method" she said
with price, and TO the class: Now,
can you tell me the name of this beau
tiful green thing which makes us all
So happy?'
And the answer was a great glad
cry: Teachers jumper"
"Whati!"
Teachers jumper!' shouted the
children, as before.
Miss Bailey. do you understand
| them?'' asked the expert. What are
they saying?"
Well" Miss Bailey explained, and
all her amusement had given place to
keen distress; you see, they did not
understand that you were talking of
the tree
But what are they saying?"
II can't tell you how sorry am;
but they thought you meant this green
shirtwaist of mine"
Miss Langdon sat down suddenly;
stared; gasped; and then, as she was a
clever woman, she laughed.
Miss Bailey she said you have a
problem here. I wish you all success.
but the field seems unpromising. The
apperceiving basis is, as you say, very
limited"
To the solving of this problem |
Teacher bent all her energies. |
Through diligent research she learn |
ed that the reading aloud of STAN
dard poems has been known to do
wonders of mental and moral I
uplifting. But standard poems are not
commonly adapted to minds six years
old and of foreign extraction, so that
Miss Bailey, though she explained, par
APPRAISED, and commented, hardly flat
tered herself that the result was sat
isfactory. In courteous though puzzled
silence the First Reader Glass listened
to enough of the poetry of the ages to
have lifted them as high as Heaven.
Longfellow, Browning, or
any one who had seen and written of
the beauty of bird or growing thing,
was pressed into service. And then, |
one day, Miss Bailey brought her Shell
ley down and read his ode to the
Skylark.''
Now, don't you think that's a pref
ty thing?" she asked. did you hear
how the lark went singing, bright and
clear, up and up and up into the blue
skye
The children We're carefully attentive, i,
as ever, but not responsive. Morris .
felt that he alone under
stood the nature of this story 1t was
meant to amuse; therefore it was polite )
that one should be amused
Teacher fools,' he chuckled. ''Larks
amt singin' in skies"
How do you know?'' asked Miss
Bailey.
Cause we got a lark by our house
It's from tin lark nit a cover
"A tin lark! With a covert Miss
Bailey exclaimed. Are you sure, dear,
hat you know what you are talking I
about?" h
Teacher yiss ma an, know" Nor
is began deliberately. My papa. he a
las lark. It's from tin lark NIT E
over. Und it's got handle too. Und f
ny papa he takes it all times on the u
store for buy lark beer IL
Lager beer! Oh, shade of Shelley!" Ii
rroaned Miss Bailey's spirit, but aloud e
he only said mo, my dear, 1 wasn't Il
eading about lager beer. A lark is a s
title Bird n
We'll" Morris began with renewed r
onf1dence, Il know what is a bird. r
Iy auntie she had one from long. She Il
avs like that, she should give it to 81
ne but my mamma she says, No, birds O.
foohShneSS.' But I know what is a | q,
ird. He soups on a stick in a cage" f,
$50 he does agreed Miss Bailey, h
ightfully inferring from Morris's ex- IL
Tessive pantomime that to Soup was nj
D swing. but sometimes he flies up
D the sky in the country, as I was -
eading to you. Were you ever in the 10
ountry?" =,
What country" asked Morris. a,
Russia! I come out of Russia -
NO not Russia. Not any particular II
ountry. Just the open country where q
ne flowers grow y,
mo ma'an, amt seen it, said the
HID gently. But I was once to :.
ompkins Square. Only it was winter -
nd snow lays on it. I amt seen no i'
overs ~
And do none of you know anything
bout the country" asked the teacher =
Idly.
.tOh, yiss ma'an, I know" said Eva 2
THE country is the Fresh 4
ir Fund"
Then you've been there" cried Miss =
alley. Tell US about it. Eva 8
mo ma'an. amt seen it," said Eva ! :
-oudly. I'm healthy. But a girl on :
Y block she had sickness und so she 0
,es. She tells me all times how is the .
untry. It's got grass stickin' right up =
1t of it, Grass und flowers! No 8
a'an, I amt never seen it: I don't Z
low where is it even, but, all! it could =
be awful pretty" 10
Eyes, honey. it is" said Teacher. :
Tery very pretty. When I was lit
<