The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-21
From the Washington Evening Star

"A ing up the peaceful atmosphere of the kindergarten attached to the Thomson school. So far as known this is the first case of a lovers quarrel in the kindergarten since these schools were first established.
 Il all happened because Angela brought a canary to school. Angela is so Italian there is a Neapolitan roll to everything sne says. She is the only one in the fam il.3 who can speak English, at that. She is small and dark and has wonderful hair and eyes.
 She is always late by not less than five minutes and this day she was late by ten minutes. The little morning circle of children was engaged in telling stories, when Angela came rushing In with some thing in her hand.
 See" she cried, rushing to her teach- CT, "see. I breeng yalla bir-r-r-d." When she held out the hand, her teach CT saw she had indeed brought yellow bird, poor squeezed canary, which could scarcely berathe, so closely had it been held in Angela's enthusiastic hand. 'IIa, l find heem on da grounda. Look | how l catcha heem." and Angela went through the motions of a child stealing upon prostrate canary and sweeping down on it and bearing it triumphantly i to the school.
 Sc they put the yellow bird which brought happiness to Angela and to all the children in a cage, where it will prob ally be named Tylty out of honor to the nero of ''The Blue Bird" And that is all there is to the bird.
 ! However, Angela became a heroine for tho day and attracted the attention of one Reynold, aged 5, who left his seat by Margaret, also aged 5, and sat fascinated by the Neapolitan girl who knew how to catch birds.
 | This was a very fine arrangement, fo- Robert, aged 5ia, immediately took pos session of Reynolds seat and began to pay homage to Margaret, who has yellow hair and whose father cannot carol Mar Ga-Ri' and "Funiculi Funicula" and other rippling songs of the Mediterrar- can. And on the other side of Margaret was another little boy, who enters no. into the quarrel except for the fact that he sat on the other side of her. let no one else sit there and paid no attention to her himself.
 Then, after an hour, Reynold, the orig inal knight. who had sat by Margaret for a whole week of kindergarten days, tired of the lady who lured and snared Tyltyl, and tried to sit down by Margaret.
 But there was nothing doing in that di- rection. Margaret would not let him siG by her. Whereupon Reynold sobbed and | al co I, ,i.,e that his teacher had to take him in her arms and let him whisper to her:
 "When somebody lets somebody sit by her and then goes and lets somebody else
 it ain't any fair
 Of course it isn't, but still, kindergar-
 ten teacher has her duty to perform, and
 this particular teacher found a little les sen in self sacrifice in the plaint of tie
 weeping Reynold, and at the end of brie
 meditation she went to Margaret ant
 asked her if she wouldn't be little lady ard let Reynold sit by her.
 Well" replied that great favorite
 when somebody sits on one side ant somebody gets up and goes away, ther if somebody else comes and sits there
 can't help it.
 l go lnere Inc NelIOW Dlfu was HO
 b. .nging universal happines in every in stance, after all, for Reynold had to si
 ny Angela, and was disgusted because h'
 could not understand her gentle patte of talk. While Margaret sat between he two young suitors and was supremely in different to yellow birds, Angelas and ev erything else, until it came time to st
 home. Then the little boys put on their hats tie little girls put on their wraps ant
 descended the stone stairs of the Thomson , school in good order, only to break ou : wildly as soon as the confines of the build ing were passed. The little boys wante.
 to run home and many of them started
 in grand chase.
 As Reynold saw them breaking into sallop he was still inside and his young
 heart leaped to the excitement His foo ! vas on the stone door sill and his Ina
 was in his hand. the call of the foot pac'