The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-09-09

what IS ltE querried Marine.
"Dougherty."
rs your front name Mrs. 80
Not exactly. dear"
Il want to have Dougherty for
may last name, asserted the little
girl. May -"
If you like" and Marines march
back to the play-room was trium-
phal one.
Have too. got last name" she
announced. ITS same as Mrs.
Dougherty."
rs it," asked Jennie cowles of
Miss Arnold
The teacher nodded.
That was the beginning of Jennie
Cowles' enmity for Marine Dough-
erty 1t was not frank, out-spoken
enmity. but an undetermined sort
which would resort to any trickery
for revenge.
Marine in the meantime. had mag
unanimously forgiven Jennie. In fact
she had really forgotten the incident
of the trouble, as she seldom bore a
grudge for any length of time. Jennie
on the other hand had always been
little envious of Marine toward
whom she declared the matron and
the teachers all showed partiality.
Il know" she would say, "she
has the same name as Mrs. Dougherty
! %f s..1
mother The rest OF us are just like
step-children."
Whenever a new inmate was
brought to the asylum, Jennie used
every means in her power, that is to
say every undetermined means. to
make her dislike Marine. For the
most part, however. the dislike soon
disappeared. for Marine was a low
able child.
But it was gall and worm-wood to
Jennies heart to notice the invari-
able popularity of Marine. while she.
Jennie. was liked by only few.
These were weak creatures whom
Jennie patronized and taught to
think that she was vastly misun-
derstood and abused girl. She al
ways had half dozen disconnected
spirits about her, breeding greater
discomfort within their breasts. while
Marine was the friend of all and all
confided in her.
There was but one thing about
Marine which ever caused her
trouble This was her temper. Not
that Marines temper was often
aroused, but it was occasionally and
Mrs. Weber tried to teach her, and
Mrs. Dougherty also. during her life
time. that a person possessed of self
control always had the advantage of
one who gave way to temper
Marines life at the asylum was
sometimes quite trying to her as she
disliked to do things according to
rule. She was by no means lazy, but
it seemed to her always that when
the girls all assembled twice a week
to sew, she invariably wanted to be
darning stockings and that when she
was required to darn stockings, she
had an uncomfortable desire to sweep
her part of the corridor, or to clean
out and set in order the particular
: drawer in the long chest allotted to
her use.
She could not see the necessity Of
always doing the wrong thing at the
wrong time and chafed under the
rountine of it all
One day she cried out petulantly
! that she was not going to sew an
l other stitch and that was all there
: was to it.
Marine Doughetry. you will sew.
and you will sew all by yourself in
the punishment-closet." replied the
teacher in charge OF the class.
The punishment-closet was a bare
room with one chair and 10 be sent
to 1t was regarded by Marine as the
depth of disgrace. But there she
went to sew and cry by turn until
Mrs. Weber came to her.
II Hdo k4dl uAC llI0i OuEnSc that
had called for the severity of the
punishment-closet, though some OF
the others were committed to it on
: an average Of once a week. and did
not seem to mind it much.
: Marine, = began Mrs. Weber. you
, can not imagine how shocked and
sorry / am TO find you here.
: And then Mrs. Weber explained
to Marine all about the necessity OF
having one certain hour for every
= occupation where there were so many
children and how impossible 1t would
be to have one doing this and an
I other that all at the same time.
After Mrs. Weber had concluded
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