The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-11

tried on the teachers, just as one tries
i germs on abbitsior@ guinea pigs. 1Sor
| instance, Mr.. So-and-So, the popular and
row marvelously prosperous huckstsi,
who recently has come to the front In
behalf or education, takes 1t Unto his
| head, that drawing should be taught In
all the SpllIc schools. That means that
| every blessed .scllopln,;l';tm in 5tEe sy.s-
4 tem--pDssby OH q, days lrptiEc--lnust
develop into an artist and prove herself
/ capable Of transforming forty or moro
| restless young Arabs into Ruphaels, and
| Michael Angeles iT54l' ssFs5
Perchance some OF tho classroom n: on
archs actually ure4nrtlsts and maybe the
new order, thougfa sudden, pleases them.
But, alas! hardly have they gotten a
| chance to cxult In II the one thing they
really like before here comes another or
der to teach musician order cmanuting
indirectly from IL retired livcryman. The
| fact that the teachers don't know II
| discord from an octave makes no8dlf-
ference. Music they must teach And at
it they 81 like a. duck on a Juicy
bug" plugging away us best they can.
Cross? Why they are like vet hens
when they get home. and will peck at
anything within fifty yards Of EN-.
And really one can't blame them much.
Tor to-day its vertical whiting that must
be hammered into young America de-
spite the fact that the instructors have
been using another style of penmanshIp
for years, and tomorrow 1t Will be some
thing else Of an equally revolutionary
nature This session tile examination
system has been abolished and q new
way of Keeping reports fndopted. Next
session the hours Of pupils may be short
cned and the hours of teachers made
longer ~
At any rate no matter how the pcda-
gogic cat jumps, the amablc5 school
n'a'Am must shcathe her retractlle claws
and abstain from scratching. She must
he good. even though she has'to worl5
twenty hours day. and be lccturcd at
the other four hours. Time was-in the
halcyon days OF my own patched breeches
s'boyhood, for Instrumentation 1t was the
teachers business to lecture ana give adj
vice But they've changed Ill that.
Now the schoolma'nm must be n listener
n hard thing for any woman to be. and
most cruelty hard for q teacher. Es'
Worse stu she must work overtime
with no union scale for extra labor, Her
prescnt--nnd, alas, apparently imnltably
nXcd componsa tlOl--is somath lng Ike $40
y week and oodlcs Of dainty dvice SUD
posed to be worth $1,000 n minute by
tflose brstowlng lti5 UNFORTUNATELY, too,
advice Qlext to assafoetida capsulcs) Is
the hardest thing on earth to swaHow
But the schoolmn'nm must do her best! 4
10 sulp at the Intellectual doses con-
corted for lei, lhc age requires IT.
She Is living ina formative period and
must !uy tie penalty Perhaps IN Gem
turtles Ia. COME, after II isfall Strengthened
out. and the advice bureau has exhaust
cd Us stock in trade. she will he canon
lied TX a
Maybe. too, In aeons yet .dimly distant,
school teachers will get bigger salaries.
me present CROP however, had better
not buy any expensive millinery on he
strength of this possibility It would be
fhr hotter for Them to get malrlcd--to
select as life companions that class Of
submissive brutes which. from time lmme-
mor'nl has TRANQUILITY allowed itself 10 DO
the verbal target for the sex " l'lcft LEFT
the garden Of Eden With thn gift Of CAB
ness knows what's tn become Of item