Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-08

lu nature the urst step in mating Is Co build a nest in my ease there was lot of preliminary work to do. My first great object Co accomplish was 10 induce my mother Co procure some dresses that would reach at least 10 my ankles After much trouble I per suaded her to cnguge a dressmaker to come to the house and make me some summer costumes. By day mother would give her instructions as to the length of my skirts and by night l would surreptitiously lower them while they were merely pasted When they were finished mother would scold the poor woman for not obeying her orders.
 How is your pupil getting on. papa?'' I asked one day.
 Not at all Hes stupid as an owl He can't even conjugate the present tense of the verb ''to love"
 Do you think he'll pass his entfance college examinationsT
 Not this year"
 Father was not looking at me. so was at liberty to raise my eyes to heaven with mute thanks and resolv- ed that if the coaching should continue for another year in case the instructor could not teach the pupil how to con iugate the verb "to lcTe'' | would to SC ..,s-Seiff.
 For year Julian Trowbridse came and went for his lessons, taking no mo- tice of me whatever. The next spring I asked father if he thought his pupil would be able to enter college that 1 year.
 Possibly" he replied. '.by hard : boning, but he has no taste for the 1 classics. I don't see why his father wishes to send him to a university"
 Has he learned to conjugate the verb to love? !" asked.
 Father gave me a quick glance. l | had changed a good deal within the year and might now have passed for young lady But he saw no con sciousness of a double meaning in my demeanor and replied:
 "Oh, he's got beyond that, of course. but he couldn't yet pass an examina- | ton on Caesars Commentaries"
 He must be very backward re- marked carelessly, and as I left the room father called to me, ''You're far ahead of him"
 This gave me an idea. had met the ~blockhead" many times. and he was beginning to treat me with more consideration One day I said to him; 'I think father is too impatient with you. If you'll let me read Latin with you I'm sure we'll be a help to each | other"
 He accepted my offer, and l told fla i ther that he might spend the time he was deyoting to Julian in his library. 1 turning his pupil over to me. Father was very glad to get rid of him, and the very next day Julian and l were | seated on rustic bench under tree ! with a copy of Virgil between Us. I have boys of my own now. and I ! surely would not consent 70 have one of them fall under such an influence as Julian Trowbridge experienced at that time ] had no more intention of teaching him the dead languages than I had of teaching him to fly in the air Fortunately for him. how ever. 1 had inherited my fathers abil- ity 10 learn and to teach them My object was to teach him to conjugate the verb ito love''-''i love, thou lowest. he or she loves. we love, you love, they love- In short, in my code of instruc- ton every one loved. and that's all they did. But since Julian's mind was ] belt especially upon getting into col lege and be found in me more SC ductive teacher than my father the lesson resulted more to his eruditior than might have been supposed l didn't care how much Latin he learned 1 provided he didn't fail to master the verb ito love" Girls between. say
 twelve and sixteen are usually fan
 more capable of learning than boys
 This gave me an advantage. l taught Julian Latin and at the same time deft
 ly wove in that other instruction l which was far nearer my heart. pre-
 pared him to enter college and to b' i my future husband at the same time
 Tn learning the first he was rot a: l stupid as my father considered him
 as to the other I confess I had yery
 hard time with him. He would conju
 gate the verb "to love" saying 'I love
 with no feeling whatever. One day
 while he was doing so in this perfume
 tory way sat ve-y near him-so near
 indeed, that few loose strands O. my
 hair brushed against his cheek Sud
 denly there came a feryor into hi
 voice that l had vainly expected fo
 weeks Then I felt an arm stealing
 around my waist, and l knew that m,
 pupil was prepared both for colleg'
 and to be my lover
 He passed his entrance examination
 without a condition and gave me al
 the credit for enabling him to do so-
 But you do father an injustice,
 remonstrated. "You must admit
 What That old boOkwormE He ma } know lot. but he has no ability what ever to impart knowledge to any on'
 else. Why. do you know. he spen
 months trying to teach me to eonJu
 gate the verb to love without my be ing able to catch even the mood. Al : for I am loved I didn't know any thing about 1t"
 I laughed and remarked that l wa .