The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-02
Myra' s Condolences

AS" HoS iS Just grand, LeaCQ. CT, and l hope you wear 1t in good health!" exclaimed Myra Schpock Myra was exalted monitor of the flow. CT boxes and was attending to them after school.
 Thank you. dear" answered Miss Lord as she marked her fourth grade arithmetic papers.
 Its nothing to thank about" said Myra. Say, you ought to see my mas new hat. It's red. with purple flow CTS. It's got big green bow across the back. When pa saw 1t he said, Mrs. Sarah Schpock, that there hat is one sumner! like yours better than mas, but 1 wouldn't say so to ma. It'd make her sore" "Of course, you wouldn't want to hurt your mothers feelings" agreed the teacher.
 My ma saw you coming to school yesterday with swell" confded Myra. Ma said, I ain't sure if it's Wednesday or Thursday morning he 'scorts your teacher to school. but I'm ooAbb iO lAtiht IL lily DuSllGSS IO IQU out So she watched to see"
 Child, what difference can 1t pos sibly make to your mother?" asked Miss Lord in surprise.
 Ma doesn't want to miss anything like that. She says 1t just does her heart good to see you and the swell go by so nice like together. Ma hasn't had much pleasure since the twins came, so she enjoys 1t when you two go by. She says, That man can't take his eyes went off your teach err"
 You must not talk like that. Myra," reprimanded Miss Lord Tt isn't good taste to say such things about people" 'I don't. honest and true Miss Lord said to my ma, said: Ma you don't know nothing about 1t. He ain't real ly my teachers man It's the fit and flutter teacher what likes Miss Lord"
 And who may he be-" inquired the teacher with a gasp of astonishment.
 Hes our exercise 'structor, Mir. Fillerpson. We kids call him fit and flutter,' because he always kept telling us to fit and flutter when We drilled | for our butterfly entertainment I said to my ma, I said, P'raps l don't know my long division but do know when a man is just crazy about lady Ma laughed so hard she broke her new corset steel"
 "Myra, you are impossible, declared Miss Lord. If you paid as close at tention to your long division as you do to other peoples affairs you would | probably learn your numbers. You are certainly a case for the psychol- ogy department"
 "We have nicknames for all the teachers declared the loquacious Myra, not at all abashed., "The sing ing superintendent is 'Do-Mi-Sol' We call the sewing lady Thimble, be- cause she gets such a mad when we forget our thimbles. The drawing lady is 'Tiptoe' She walks as if she was afraid of waking the baby"
 What a disrespectful class of chill dren I havei" exclaimed the amused teacher, trying to weaE a disappearing look and failing. As token of her equalization she added, smiling: "l wonder If I have a nickname?"
 "Dast tell you yours?" asked Myra.
 I'm eager to hear IL"
 Yours is Lady Violet because you always smell so nice of violets. l hope I will when I'm a big lady"
 Thank you. That's a very nice nickname."
 ments silence, "Izalia Zwick aint coming to school tomorrow She's got to go to the doctors for her nose"
 'Ts her nose at the doctor's?" laugh ed Miss Lord.
 No, ma'am, but she has badinoids. That's the reason she's so bad. When they're taken out she won't make no more whisperi lgs in school"
 Poor child, I'm sorry for her. Give her my love"
 "Ohi Oh! Miss Lord! Look quick! There's anautomobile. It's your swell; he's coming right into school My! Your cheeks look pretty and red!"
 "Myra, I'm afraid your mother will N worrying about you. Now, you'd better run home, dear. Thank you for helping me so nicely"
 "Good-by, teacher. My ma won't have no mad on me when l tell her what seen"