Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-09-17
CHEERFUL GIVER
By Lucy Copin4er
Copyright by J. d. LipplncOtt Coz


let you have a little entertainment"
An entertainment! A real enter
tainment. consisting, 1t Is true, mainly
of speaking. but not at all 10 be con-
founded with the awful memory gems
that one was obliged to recite every
morning. Miss Lucy taught these
memory gems of the "be-good-little-
MISUNDERSTANDING" kind. and
Frederick William did not understand
them at all. He thought of the one
that he had recited that morning with
the usual accompaniment of swallows
and gurgles. IL was
willie Hands and Willie Feet
Lead us straight to Sunshine Street"
Frederick William had not yet
come to the age of criticism that one
acquires in the third grade, and he
still accepted absolutely all state
ments made by Miss Lucy. But he
could not help wondering who Willie
Hands was and who Willie Feet
was, and whether after they got him
to Sunshine street they would leave
him there lost or take him back to
Heneman avenue and his mother. But
an entertainment-tha was quite diff.
ferent from memory gems. Miss Lucy.
quoting, called IL "the spontaneous
and free utterance of thought con-
cept" To the children It meant that
one might say or sing anything he
wished in the way that best suited
him. Therefore the heart of Frederick
William was glad when, the action
lesson being finished. Miss Lucy put
on her entertainment smile. This
smile of Miss Lucys was one of a
great many. II was much nicer than
her try again. dear" smile which she
had when Anna did not know her
sums aid which Frederick William
did not like at all, but IL was not near
ly so nice as her NOW my little boys
and girls" smile, which she smiled
when the principal came in the room,
and 1t could never for moment be
compared to her getting things"
smile which was the lovellest of all.
Miss Lucy having acquired her en-
tertainment smile, Now children"
she said who knows something to
say?" A dozen hands waved wildly,
Anna Karenina's among them like a
brown dag. "Marie.' seiected Miss
Lucy.
The hypocritical Marie stepped out
and recited a hypocritical little piece
in which she earnestly declared her
love for her teacher.
Very good" said the flattered Miss
Lucy. who else? JOSEF"
Josef was a foolish little boy who
always raised his hand and never
knew anything. He stood beside Miss
Lucy grinning in sheepish silence un.
Ill at last she had to send him to his
seat still grinning. Can a thought
concept be formed in a vacuum
thought Miss Lucy psychologically.
Next Bum O'Reilly sang in dread.
full monotone one of the organ-grinder
songs, consisting mainly of the state
ment that he would be waiting among
the roses for vague young person
of the feminine gender. He further
insisted upon an encore-"The Holy
City" coming out with fortissimo
upon the "Je" in Jerusalem" in a
way that made it sound irreverently
slangy
This classic being finished. Miss
Lucy. with a sigh of relief that II
was no worse, asked for some one TO
play Jack and JILL" a dramatization
of the nursery rhyme that she had
taught them. She selected Frederick
William to be Jack, causing him al
once to get a queer trembling of the
knees. Anna was the only one of the
girls who would be Jill. The two were
given a large tin cup to be held be
tween them, and they were to march
up from the door while the children
reGited the rhyme. At first all went
well. At the proper time the self
conscious Frederick William dropped
gently and neatly to the floor. ever
mindful OF his clean waist, and put
his hand to his head with the free
dom Of gesture of an automaton. But
at the words "Jill came trumbline
after" the excitable Anna, with the
. abandon of a Beruhardt, threw her
self headlong upon Frederick William
knocking the tin cup at Miss Lucy
stepping upon Frederick's finger. and
!. hitting her head violently against his
At which Frederick William at once
, burst into tears and was sent sobbinl
, out to battle his finger. Anna was
sent TO her seat, and. with the ringing
} of the bell. the entertainment con
} Guided
When Frederick William returned
all the children had gone. He got his
things and was Just going out wher
Miss Lucy called to him. Frederick.
she said. would you mind emptyinl
, the basket"
} Frederick William grew red with
+ pleasure This, then. was to be TN