Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-02
A LESSON FOR H0OL-GIRLS
 THEY SHOULD REMEMBER.
Classes Often Hand Down Prejudices Against Teacher-"It Is the Class That Makes the Teacher Lovely or Unlovely in Her Manner"-Hsro- ism of an Unappreciated Teacher = Girls Unconsciously Cruel A Teacher Who Kissed All Her Pu- pills. ..."
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

sat on the veranda last night after tea. Next year I won't have such cross teacher as I have had in the seventh grade Miss Louise in the sixth grade was lovely. All the girls adored her. She could do anything with us she iked 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 Elm ily's room. Not girl in the class can bear her, except perhaps two or three who are her pets. She Is simply hor- rid to the rest, and we shall bid her good-by with relief. I can't imagine why the board keeps teachers who are 50 cross and disagreeable and who just try to make girls unhappy and discon- tented"
 After this long speech, Dorothy gave her golden hair little shake and looked up at me with those laughing brown eyes that would seem to defy crossness in anybody.
 q wonder" said musingly, whether the fault is all with the teacher. Have not you girls been con- trary and perverse and hard to con- trol? 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 what might be called fair show? Have you always conscientiously 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- ioyed doing it, and l. for my part, should not care if never met Miss Emily again. I have heard, though, that there are two Miss Emilys. Gladys and Winifred, the girls who are her favorites, 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 a teacher? Why can she not be as nice in one place as in another?"
 The question you ask, though you dc 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 oul best selves, and with other people ant In other places we show our worst.
 have no doubt that the feeling of irri tation in the atmosphere touches tho teacher as well as the pupils in youl class room. Have you ever noticed that when you very much like anyone pr when you feel strongly repelled iron anyone, there is an answering feeling of exactly the same kind on the par of the other to you? Love answers love. Aversion arouses distrust 4 teacher is in peculiarly difficult situ ation. She must preserve good dis cieline in her class, and she must brini 1t to a definite point in it's work. | the class cooperates all is easy. If thu class pulls the other way, all is hard In very truth, Dorothy, it is the clas that makes the teacher lovely or un lovely in her manner to the girls.
 There is something else l would lik to remind you of. A teacher may hav great anxieties and trials in the back ground of her life. and it may be tha she cannot always rise above them. was SO with a teacher had when l va IA. which is just your beautiful age You do not begin to know what de lightful thing it is to be l4 and in tn very glow and sweetness of the morn ing time.
 In the school l attended then ther were a number of teachers. most c whom were more or less popular There was one whom, by common cor sent. we treated with disdain. She di not appeal to any of us. We did not lik the way she wore her hair. We mad fun of her prim dresses, which wer never in the fashion. and we did nc admire anything about her. She wa very near sighted and very nervous
 Her eyes often looked red. as if she hs been crying, and she had trick of lei ting books and pencils fall. and of gel ting ink spots on her papers. If sh reproved a girl. she did 1t difidentl! and we called 1t grossly. but I no know that she suffered agonies of shy ness and never got over being afrai
 of the girls. When school days wer
 over I knew her better. and foun out what a heroine she vas. He mother was a hopeless invalid. her li tie brother was a cripple and she sul ported them both while there hun over her the terror that her eyes voul give out altogether. and that she woul . be obliged to resign her positios.
 Girls can be very cruel They do n,
 mean to be cruel. but because of the
 youth. their quick enthusiasm. the
 impulsiveness. and the intolerance the have for whatever does not plea, them. they often cause q great deal [
 suffering which they would be sorr for If only they knew what tLey vsl doing
 A teacher may bs fighting a bstt that vOs girls cannot in the less; al . ,---=zse ff Srs has has- fr hzrrel