Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-02-01
A PROMOTER OF
GOOD CHEER.
rue WAY SOME PEOPLE AFFECT
OTHERS.

I on MS back SAID one ScnOOl-teacneI 70
another That's the way l feel every
time l see Miss Statham. I've added TO
( iy morning prayers From meeting Miss
Statham. good Lord, deliver mel A walk
with her casts a goOr' over my whole
day Yes. she's in our school and I'm not
the only one who wishes she wasn't. II
the principal had as much power as they
say, she'd be somewhere else. wonder
if Dante hasn't anything in his Inferno
about people who make you want to hight.
! il he hasnt.he ought to have by just
talking peace she'd arouse a spirit Ut
martial ardor that would conquer the
world
Yes | know Pm bitter. but so would
you be- She came into my room and told
me right before the children that school
was not the place to wear diamonds.
know it is not; very few teachers have
them to wear. to tell the truth; but how
could help it, when there was no one
at home to take care of my poor little
pin? Anyhow, children like to see pretty
, things; and then, it was none of her bust
hess. person like that is enough 70
ruin anybody's disposition. l say
why. Willie Stevens-you know
Willie Stevens. that dear little mothers
only boy? Well. Willie was in the Office
the other day. looking as determined as
Roosevelt II seems he had absolutely
refused to pick up paper from the floor.
Ii was funny to see him with his jaw set
and his eyes flashing Poor Mr.. Sawyer
was worried to death He knew Willie
was all right. yet he knew. too that
discipline must he maintained, so there
he was
Willie was at last induced to speak
: and he said half-sObbing I'd pick it un
if she asked me to, even if | didn't dol
but amt going to do it when she says |
must And honored him for his pluck.
which must say / never suspected. But
there it is! She can make even him
fight
why, do you know, she's promoter
of lying? Yes, you needn't look so as
founded and shocked; it's perfectly true.
You know how loved California. Well,
she began to praise it, and in an instant,
like panorama, saw all the disagree
able features of the region, though until
that moment | had entirely forgotten
them. saw myself holding my hat with
one hand and my skirts with the other.
as | went down Market street in August
with my teeth chattering actually felt
the damp clothes put on every morning.
was again in the room with the others
of our party. huddled up with our cloaks
on and the gas lit for warmth. When
was there, thought all those things
funny. We had the very jolliest kind Ut
time, telling our days experience in
those chilly rooms But only the wish
to contradict her was uppermost in my
mind
"And Chinatown! really hated It; but
when she denounced it-well. to hear me
then you would absolutely think the one
ambition OF my life was to live In one OF
those oriental, balconied houses lit with
lanterns; to roam the quaint streets
and to pass my spare time at the gro
tesque theater I'm glad my mother
didn't hear me She'd think was losing
my chances for heaven.
Then she has such a superior air when
you tell her joke She looks as if you
hadn't the normal amount of intellect
when you think anything is funny No
one else being near, one day l showed
her some sentences written by one of my
boys He was to incorporate plum and
since in sentences showing thought. He
wrote Tom Thumb had a whole plum
pie. He had a since She said she
couldn't see anything funny about that;
and when | deliberately explained that
he probably meant Tom had 'cinch,'
she asked what that was, and then said
she was surprised at any teacher laugh
ing at slang used by a child.
You remember how poor little Jimmie
Davis. who lives in the alley, loves to
adorn himself with anything in the
shape of jewelry that he gets hold of?
Well. the other day he came to school
with a brass ring on his first finger. All
the way upstairs he held his hand spread
out on his breast so no one should miss
the sight of his treasure; and when I
pretended to look over his head, he
ACCIDENTALLY Vi COuISG -puupSu against
me. When ! laughed at that she said 1t
was disgusting Do you know what she
made him do? Throw it into the waste
basket! Yes she did But when l saw
him crying. going downstairs, went
and fished it out (she wasn't in the
room and gave it to him. I warned
him not to wear It again in school, except
at recess and noon. don't care whether
it was right or not Heavenly jewels
couldn't have been more precious to him
than that ring; and If his hands are
dirty it made no difference. / think
such. people as Miss Statham ought to
be suppressed.
There she is now. Let's run. Pretend
you don't hear her"
"Oh. good morning, Miss Statham No,
I didn't know my dress was sagging in
the back. How kind of you to tell me-!
BY the way, how dreadfully unbecoming
that hat is to you! People with sallow
compilations ought not to wear brown.
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