The Washington bee., 1911-03-11

the Star which he wanted the pupils
TO see, and so tore it out, by hand,
and pinned it on the bulletin board
at the school. Now it happened that
alongside this athletic announcement
was news story about some member
OF the board trying TO work Major
Brooks for "fIuenCe' Henderson
never saw this. He wouldn't have
known what It meant If he had read
1t Well that clipping from the Star
stuck there on the bulletin board, un-
heard. unseen and unewpt. until Sher-'
man Jackson-PrOf. Jackson-came
along Now Jack at once thought
here's the chance to get my place
back as principal, so he sprained the
ligaments of his left leg getting over
to Mr.. Horner's 5 office to tell him all
about It. Then Mr.. HOrner, who. like
uVe-y ~ 1al man at times has a soft
side for groundless rumOrs and an un-
due liking TO tackle small things and
make them look big, wrote letter to
the Board, complaining, and an
nOunced that either Principal Williams
had to resign or he and Prof Tunnel
would throw the entire country. from
Maine to the Gulf, into fit Of excite
ment by resign!ng as members of the
Board. OF course, neither resigned,
and the President could not persuade
them to resign-they like the job too
well. Well, Watso and [ found out
that Prof. Williams knew nothing
about the clipping being bulletined,
and neither did any of the other teach
ers. Henderson IS the only man, out
side OF Jack, whose eagle eyes fell upon
1t. Now, what Jackson should have
done land it would have saved him
time and mOrtihCation) would have
been to have gone direct and told the
principal first. Of course, Jackson
was caught "red-handed in the fray
III an effort to prejudice the Board
members against an impartial, earnest
principal, If he had been in the army
he would have been court-martialed
and reduced OF course, Mr.. Horner
should not have tried to make a noun
tam out of mole hill, but he thought
lessly never stopped to consider that
Jack was trying to get him to pull
a few moulded Chestnuts out of the
fire, My advice to both Mr. Horner
and Prof. Tunnel, who are both very
bright, earnest and fine gentlemen,
Is to look gift horse in the face
pretty close before you stable him. 1t
won't pay to listen to every story that
a disappointed man who has 4 grieV-
anCe brings TO you. | read the Star
article, and it did not mention Mr.
HOrner's name, and his grabbing the
story, as Jack brought it, hook, line
nd G4r7L-pr made 70 fa1llr.-
over III Alexandra that he was the
man advertised. The whole affair
ought to be permitted to subside, for
the good of the schools, for the good
of the pupils, for at best, it was moth
ing but a tempest in a teapot When
/ got through with my Investigations.
old WatsO looked up at me and ejaC-
ulated. Say, SherloCko, somebody
tried to make a stink out of a bunch
of violets,' and /, with marvellous CON
Ceptlon Of things-excuse the bouquet
l sling at myself-remarked Yes,
WatsO, somebody's been trying to play
tricks on travellers, but the bomb
wouldn't explode
Friday night I invested one whole |
dollar in two seats for The Merry
Wives of Windsor" put on by the
Howard University students. Because
of ignorance had never read the |
play took my little daughter with
me. All | have to say is that if those |
'versity students, under Prof Brawley, |
keep at II, they will be able to pro- |
duCe The Girl from RectOr's" and |
'Sappho' next year. The Merry |
Wives of Windsor" is d loaded dice
loaded with a lot of rotten sugges- |
tives, and ] saw many young woman
blush over the dialogue in the play. |
The acting was very good, indeed-in |
fact, from the standpoint of acting the |
students performed unusually credit |
ably. They were near-professiOnals |
in their acting, but, me. oh my, the
III that play Had the
students only thought of it, and adver-
tised the play over IN the Division" all /
the demimonds would have come over
en- masse, for 1t was play to their /
liking. I would suggest that the How
ard Dramatic Club hereafter conhne !