The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-18
THAT CROSS TEACHER
GLASSES OFTEN HAND DOWN GRE JUDGES AGAINST A TEACHER.
AIt fs the Class That Makes the Teacher Lovely or UnIoveIy in Her Manner" Heroism of an Unappreeiated Teacher --- Girls Uneon-
 sei0usly Cruel.
By Margaret E. san.ter.

Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
 There will be one comfort, said Dorothy to me. confidentially. as we sat on the veranda last night after tea. Next year I won't have to nave such a cross teacher as have had in the seventh grade. Misz Louise in the sixth grade was lovely. All the girls adored her. She could do anything with us she liked. and we would work to please her, and never disappoint her if we could help it. But 1t has been very different since we came into Miss Emilys room. Not a girl in the class ran bear her, except perhaps two or three who are her pets. She is simply horrid to the rest, and we shall bid her good-by with relief. can't imagine why the board keeps teachers who are so cross and disagreeable and who just try to make girls unhappy and disccntented."
 After this long speech, Dorothy gave her golden hair a little shake and looked up at me with those laughing brown eyes that would seem to defy crossness in anybody
 T wonder" said I. musingly, whether the fault Is all with the teacher. Have not you girls been contrary and perverse and hard to control? Did you not go into that class having made up your mind that you would not have a good time there? Has not poor Miss Emily a reputation for crossness that has been handed down or up from class to class, so that she has never had with any of you. what might be called fair show? Have you always conscienti- ously tried to be as loyal to her as you were to the teacher Of whom you were fond?"
 Certainly not" said Dorothy. frank ly. Nobody can be loyal to a teacher whom everybody dislikes. We have done our work. but we have not en- 1oyed doing it, and I. for my part, should not care if l never met Miss Emily again. I have heard, though, that there are two Miss Emilys. Gladys and Winifred, the girls wno are her favor ties, have never found any fault with her In the class room, and they say that she is charming out of school. Why must there be two persons in teach CT? Why can she not be as nice in one place as in anotherT
 The question you ask. though you do not know it. my child, is as deep as the sea and as old as the globe. There are two persons in most of us, With some people and in some places we show our best selves, and with oth- CT people and in other places we show our worst l have no doubt that the feeling of irritation in the atmosphere touches the teacher as well as the pupils in your class room. Have you ever noticed that when you very much like anyone, or when you feel strongly repelled from anyone, there Is an an swering feeling of exactly the same kind on the part of the other to you? Love answers love. Aversion arouses distrust. A teacher Is in a peculiarly difficult situation. She must preserve good discipline in her class, and she must bring it to a definite point in it's work. If the class cooperate all is easy. If class pulls the other way. all is hard In very truth, Dorothy. 1t Is the class that makes the teacher love ly or unlovely in her manner to the girls.
 There is Something else I would like % remind you of. A teacher may have anwfAtfha and frfalcl "a fhA