The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-25

the First Reader Glass in a body rises
TO cast its gifts on Teachers desk, and
its arms round Teachers neck.
| Nathan HorOwitz presents a small
cup and saucer; IsidOre Applebaum
| beStOWs a large calendar for the year
| before last; Sadie GOnOrOWSky brings a
basket containing a bottle of perfume,
a thimble and a bright silk handker-
chief; Sarah SchOdsky offers a pen
wiper and a yellow celluloid collar but
| ton. and Eva Kidansl1y gives an
elaborate nasal douche, under the
| pleasing delusiOn that it is an
atOmizer.
Once more sounds of grief reach
! Teachers ears. Rushing again to the
| rescue, she throws open the door and
comes upon woe persOnified. Eva
| GonOrOwsl1y, her hair in widest dis,
array, her stocking fouled, ungartered
and down gyved to her ankle, appeared
before her teacher. She bears all the
marks of Hamlet's excitement, and
many more, including a tear-stained
little face and a gilt saucer clasped 10
a painting breast.
Eva, my dearest Eva, what's hap
pened TO you now?" asks Teacher, for
the list Of i'll chances which have be-
fallen this one of her charges is very
long. And Eva walls forth that a
boy, a very big boy, had stolen her
golden cup what 1 had for you by
present" and has left her only the
saucer and her undying love to
bestow.
Before Eva's sobs have quite yielded
to Teachers arts, Jacob Spitsky
presses forward with a tortoise shell
comb of terrifying aspect and hungry
teeth, and an air showing forth a
determination TO adjust it in its des-
tined place. Teacher meekly bows
her head; Jacob forces his Offering into
her long-suffering hair. and then re-
tires with the information, costs l.
cents, Teacher" and the courteous
phrase-by etiquette prescribed-"Wish
you health to wear it." He is plainly
a hero, and is heard remarking to less
favored admirers that Teachers hair
is awful softly, and smells off of per
fumery."
Here a big boy, a very big boy,
enters hastily. He does not belong to
Room IS, but he has long known
Teacher. He has brought her a pres
ent; he wishes her d merry Christmas
The present, when produced, proves
TO be a pretty gold cup, and Eva
Gonorowsky, with renewed emotion,
recognizes the boy as her assailan.
and the cup as her property. Teacher
is dreadfuIly embarrassed; the boy not
at all so. His policy is simple and en-
tire denial and in this he perseveres,
even after Evas saucer has unmistak-
ably proclaimed its relationship 10 the
cup.
Meanwhile the rush of presentation
goes steadily on. Other cups and
saucers come in wild prOfusiOn. The
desk is covered with them, and their
wrappings of purple tissue paper re-
quire a monitors whole attention. The
soap, too, becomes urgently percepti-
BILE. 1t is of all sizes, shapes and
cOlors, but of uniform and dreadful
power of perfume. Teachers eyes fill
with tears of gratitude as each new
piece or box is pressed against her
nose, and Teachers mind is full of
wonder as to what she can ever do
with all of it. Bottles of perfume vie
with one another and with the all
pervading soap until the air is heavy
and breathing grows laborious. while
pride swells the hearts of the as
gembled multitude. No other teacher
has so many helps TO the toilet. None
other is so beloved.
Teachers aspect is quite changed,
and the "blue long down like a lady
dress" is almost hidden by the offerings
she had received. Jacobs comb has
two massive and bejeweled rivals in
dress, where aching or respondent
heads are wont to rest, is glittering
with campaign buttons Of American
celebrities, beginning with James G.
Blaine and extending into modern his
tory as far as Patrick Diver, Admiral
Dewey and Captain Dreyfus. Outside
the blue belt is a white one, nearly
clean. and bearing in "sure 'nough
golden words" the curt but stirring in
vitation, Remember the Maine"
Around the neck are three chaplets OF
beads, wrought by chubby fingers and
embOdying much love, while the waist
line is further adorned by tiny and
beribboned aprons. Truly. it is a day
Of triumph.
When the waste paper basket
has been twice filed with wrap
pings and twice emptied; when
order IS emerging out of
chaos: when the Christman tree has
been disclosed and its treasures dis
tributed, n timid hand is laid on
Teachers knee and a Dlaintive voice
whispers. say, Teacher. 1 got some
thing for yOu;" and Teacher turns
quickly TO see Morris, her dearest boy
charge. with his poor little body show
ing quite plainly between his shirt
waist buttons and through the gashes
he calls pockets. This IS the ordinary
custom, and the funds of the house of
Mogilewsky are evidently unequal to
an outer layer for finery.
Now, Morris dear" said Teacher.
you shouldn't have troubled to get me