The Globe-republican., 1910-05-26
The Problerrl
Of Glorianna

'Why," she asked the small colored
girl, didn't you enter with the rest Of
the class at the beginning Of the
termT
"Ah'm very delicate-like, teachah," !"
explained the child. my NAV, she
don't neyah expect to raise me. no
ma'am." She rolled her great eyes af-
fectedly. "So All amt nevah ben to
school much. De teachahs all has took
mighty good care Of me In the schools
Ah've ben at; Alive ben to i've al
ready. De las teachah she always
called me angel-chile.' She suah wuz
nice lady, she wuz!"
what Is your manner" asked tho
teacher.
"Gloryannah Annabel Snow. Yes,
ma'am. All was named for nah two
aunts. Dey wuz very beautiful ladies.
Nah Aunt Gloryannah he'd the mos
beautifulles' long yellah hair an wife
skin an blue eyes. Nah muthah says
All take after nah Aunt Gloryannah
terrible close"
The teached looked at her round
chocolate face and kinky little braids
and could not conceal a smile.
"An' NAH oddah aunt-Aunt Anna
bel. that wuz--hed the mos beautiful
les red hair, long an straight"
The teacher felt called upon to In
terrupt this romance.
What Is your fathers manner"
"Ah amt got no fathah. Nah muth-
abs widow lady. Hits awful stylish
to be widow ladies an weah long black
wells. All don't nevah renembah nah
fathah, but nah muthah she got heh-
self long veil las wintah an she
suah does look fine. When Ah'm
growed up Ah'm goin' to be a widow
lady, too."
What Is your mothers name?", In
Quired the teacher.
"Mah muthah? Oh, she's awful styl-
ish with front names. She mos always
keeps heh end name, but she changes
heb front names real often. JUS now
hits Arabella Vivienne."
what is your mothers occupa-
tion?" The teacher glanced at the
clock uneasily, regretting the waste Of
time.
"Oh, nah muthah, she used to wash
foh few ladies. She say IL you want
any washin' done she'll do hit right
reasonable. But now she say that no
ladies goes washin' no noah. Dey all
cahries liz bags an go manicurin' an
haihdressin'. So when they asks nah
muthah wheah she goin' she say she
goin' to board meetin'!"
'Very wei, Glorianna. Now take
that front seat and work the arith-
metic lesson on the board"
Gloriarna took the seat. When the
half hour was up the monitors collect
ed the children's papers aud reported
that the new pupil had none.
"Glorianna, said the teacher, Sc.
verely, where is your arithmetic pa
PERI"
"Ah amt got none, teachah," ex-
planned the child "Ah nevah does no
numbahs. All don't like numbahs-
nevah did. So when the oddahs does
their numbahs All composes po'try
Ah'll recite you the po'try All COM
posed when the. children wuz dom
theih numbahs. Hits bout you-alps
eyes," beguilingly to the teacher.
mo, thank you, Glorianna. Here
after you will do your numbers as the
rest do IL you intend to stay in this
room. All children must be Industrious
here. What would you do II you grew
to be a big girl and couldn't do any
numbers2 Wouldn't you be ashamed?"
mo, ma'am. All amt nevah gon' to
be big girl. Ah'm goin to be re-
fined an delicate when All grows up,
yes, ma'am. An nah muthah says ez
long ez Ah'm aristocratic an artistic
an hez 'complishments All dom need
no 'r1thmetic an sech things. All kin
sing, too. Alive sung at the nickel
theatah lots NV times Once All got
so cents. Now I'll sing fo' you-all.p
Fortunately the dismissal bell rang
before Glorianna had time to mention
any more accomplishments, for the
other pupils were spellbound by her
eloquence.
However, in the following week the
budding poetess was compelled to do
her numbers" three times, much to
her disgust. She coaxed, pleaded,
soolded, fattered and sulked to no
avail. The teacher was callous to her
wiles. Still that capable young person
found she could not curb Glorianna's
flow of speech. Glorianna talked al
most increasingly. Her leadership
stirred the gentle little ones to disobe-
dience more than once. They all de-
cided that numbers" was unnecessary
and their once idolized teacher was
nearly distracted by their disobedi-
ence.
Glorianna came to school one day
with an added air Of importance. She
handed her teacher note written on
highly scented pink paper. 1t an,
nounced that her mother was about 70
move to more refined" neighbor.
hood and that Glorianna consequently