New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-21
SOME OLD MEMORIES
Back to the Little Red SchOolhouse
an the Country.

out bright and early along the friendly old country
road that saunters uphill and the fields like
a lazy with his hands in his pockets Here
and there where the hills steep and II comes
down at breakneck speed. head heels. IT is not
so indolent nor so shftless IN It's manner, At the
river the road pauses for swim II dips. 1t
Were. into the sparkling waters and comes out
bright and refreshed on the other side.
Every foot of the way familiar to
as the face of a friend. Seeing the orchards had
robbed. the farmhouses had visited and the fields
/ used to scurry across when boy. 1t wasn't
long before my bOyhood back me. Soon
a little youngster book and slate in hand, trudged
along at side We two had much to say 10
each other of times gone by and so. before I knew
II. found myself good two miles from the viii
lage and face face with the little red schoolhouse
out ard in at the doors OF which I had passed
times without number-always IL memory serves
right. a little bit gladder to get out than TO
go in.
There it stood. the story. square, red brick
building, with the white window sashes and doors
and the fantastic little bell top just about
the size of the bell inside OF It that called me to
school on more than one early spring and early
elsewhere. 1t would astonish you to know how
much noise mat bell can make and from what
conscience happens to be out of gear and you hap
pen to have made up your mind in advance to play
Il stopped to refresh myself with cup Of water
innumerabe Of yore Then climbed the 'i feW
steps and passed through the door Children's
teacher bowed me welcome lifting her specialized
eyes from her book in quaint hutter Of surprise
Il tiptoed my way to the back Of the small room
the last double bench Of the row. glance or two
convinced that nothing had changed in all the
years had been away, unless you would call the
mellow1ng that things and people undergo with
There was the same old fashioned wood stove
with the fat round pipe that ran parallel With and
painted anew. suppose. occupied its corner. The
another
the door stood the teachers unvarnished
on the front wall over the recitation bench was
the only attempt at decoration:
haxen haired freskd oo and rosy checked crowd
the children in the room. whose ages varied from
seven to seventeen. had bare feet The girls were
rayed in blue jeans and hickory shirts. However
at ali to dress Wish to call Your attention to tRe
transcendent art with which their suspender-I
eir Backs and across their shoulders T tsSes
country boy to catch the trick of thatl
the comprised, the size Of the classes varying
command from the teacher and took their places
in the front Of the room in the recitation bench
been studying while the others had been recting
teacher handling in that fashion whole room
full Of children IS kept pretty bus as you can well
the natural restiessness OF the pupils. due to the
warmth of the drowsy September day An intrud-
some insect or other chirped Justify in anofaer
corner and through the open windows the flies
found easy entrance.
TT was an atmosphere that inspired drovsiness
head down on The desk as did some of those sleepy
boys and given myself over TO dreams Of the days
The initials found carved on the desk were
%ifh those Of er Who has BASED out of INV @
completely he had left that They
old apple tree sort Of mood"bnt forbear ~ 'A'
Looking across the read 10 the grape Vines
tassels Of the corn shtmmering in the sun, my
into the greafer world rejecting that there after
all, in the illiteracy combated in the characters
women it influenced were be found and weighed
scHoohouse OfS May ants IT'S DOORS thought as passed
out of them never be shEt and its last lesson $50
We got along fairly veil for several pages and
Brown an 1 tink he will John in the sheep
sSs up in as F a he tRe Sen h
but I was still in the dark Finally. in despair,
and a9 she shen Rad Il He ns mPy sad in his
way that Mr.. Brown had been seen and that he
would join the ship
MAN WHO IS NEVER PLEASED.
q have worked for all kinds of people. without
tude. and have had an opportunity 10 study every
There is the man who is never pleased. The
right hand margin is not straight ana aIIeT you
upon your taking it apart and correcting it, because
properly It is the only mistake but he departs after
grudgingly paying his bill with the air of martyr
ten, ard thinks it an immense amount and that he
"And IL the man Who is afraid he will be cheated
and the who is sure he won't be. because he
does not intend to pay at all ma into his conf
dence and tells ms all his domestic troubles AND the
De whO 10 is DO 6s ok tht he T ia
ABR evations and will believe what is fact
negsst i to ms and that if he told me his whole
story 1 would forget it before the day is out
WANTED AN EXPURGATED EDITION.
''some people use me for a policeman and others
for a confessor And oh! the lies I've written and
feel that am only a part Of the machine and
no more accountable than the typswrdire ,T ., bic
horoscope An astrologer had given him an elabo-
every month in the year d they ali cautioned
him against his susceptibility to women and 70
boro e 9 ana g0 ss peTeev safe to send home
TO his wife, and doubtless saved her many sleep |
I'm this way I game upon many comedies, and, |
great deal to know the last charter. but. on the
there is n man baTm n2 Es snd o to
learns his lesson.
HAS TO EDIT COPY
portant part of his letter and then gets angry be-
cause | am not st mind in Teader
rapher I should write the word tact One must /
"A man was debating to me one day and his /
English something unearthIy, but / managed I
I handed him the completed letter he read it with /
a be1mine face and said: am pretty good /
There is the man who expects you 10 know the /
number of cubic inches in the Washington Monu-
merit But the man who is stil more annoying is /
absolutely nothing, begins shorthand dictation /
SSmething like this: WqShinston D G. August 30
2stle, CASTLE Penn. Have YOU got that? Upon /