New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-03

In one Of the brightest of her stories which
Ghe calls Love Among the Blackboards." Myra
KA1y has graphically recorded the horror that
assatied her Little Citizens" and particularly
Morris Mogielewsky. Prime Minister and Mon
1tor Of the Goidhsh Bowl" and Patrick Bren-
nan, Commander in Chief of the Forces and
Leader OF the Line" when they first suspected
their beloved teacher Of matrimonial intentions.
And now Myra Kelly herself has distanoed the
'-TeAchar' Of the story, and the children Of
Pubic School No. 147. far within the ghetto
.bouDdar5es, VIII know her more. In becoming
Mrs Allan Macnaughtar Of Cedar Ridge, N
T. hast Sunday, Myra Kelly acted without for
nal notice to her friends lodged the insstent
sspocesr and the ounipresen. photographer, and
escaped to her honeymoon undetected. None
tho less. her readers cannot complain of a lack
of waning. Across the pages Of her book Lit
tie CItzens,- the fourth edition Of which has
Just been issued by Mcclure. Phillips & Co.. the
porsentosis figure of DR.. Ingrahaln, who was
slowing NIT Miss Bailey" stalked with ever in
cro4stng frequency. and the identity of Miss
Bailey and ofyra Kelly is unrnistakable-
Il Is all very well for Mr.. Maonaughtan to in
Gst with becoming sincerity that the DR.. In
graham OF the book is only a fictitious charac-
tor and not a portrait of himself. Moreover, II
Mrs. Macnaughtan does not contradict him, OF
course the fact that they have been married
ton LES IN the book. and even Mr.. Macnaugh-
tan will hesitate TO deny that he found solace,
somewhere in the past in the answer Myra
Kelly put in the mouth of her Miss Bailey, when
Morris Mogielewsky, he Of the Goldfish Bowl,
bluntly asked her if she meant TO be married
This question was not quite to Teacher"
so wrote Myra Kelly, who is now Mrs. Mac
naughtan, land as she bestowed Morris more
comfortably upon her lap. she pondered once
bar tie
had fallen in very pleasant places. And yet
and yet-the average female life is long and
Board however thoughtful as to salary and pen
sion is an impersonal lord and master, and re-
mote withaL So she answered quite simply,
with her cheek against the boys: Well. per-
haps so. Morris Perhaps shall some day"
For all Mr. Macnaughtan and his protests it
is clear that the romance of real life has sim
ply outstripped that of the book by a few weeks.
and that Miss Bailey's some day Myra
Kelly's last Sunday.
AS Mrs. Macnaugttan, then. Myra Kelly will
rule at Cedar Ridge. the beautiful country es-
tate of her husband. where the broad lawn to
quote Eva Generously, another Little Citizen
has got grass sticking right up OUT Of it
Grass and flowers But to her readers she is
to remain Myra Kelly, and there is already a
story of the East Side on the literary stocks
OF the honeymoon home. There is also
6mblt1ouS Night a novel or Irish life, In sight
For Myra Kelly has truthfully described her
self in the words she wrote about Miss Bailey:
''She was as Irish Patrick Brennan, and in
her way she looked it. Truly, her eyes
were brown, but the face and the faith of her
fathers were still strongly hers In her speech
there fingers far off, but with emphasis just
sufficient to add charm, the burr of the Irish
land When the honeymoon is the Mac
naughtans to make trip to Myra Kelly's
native land, and when she returns Myra Kelly
plans to write her novel at Cedar Ridge with
the blue line of the Ramapo Mountains TO
place the romantic Donegal Highlands.