The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1912-10-10
Myra $
Condolences

Your new hat is just grand teach
Ell, and ] hope you wear it IN goot
health exclaimed Myra Schpock
Myra was exalted monitor OF the flow
er boxes and was attending to then
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 ma IS
new hat It's red. with purple flow
ers It's got a big green bow across
the back. When pa saw it la said,
Mrs. Sarah Schpock, that there hat
is one stunnerl | like yours better
than mas, but | 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 a SWELL" confided
Myra. Ma said 1 amt sure if it's
Wednesday or Thursday morning he
SNOAbo JOdi tOdCnCl W oCuOOls Uul 1 Ill
going to make 1t my business to find
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 it 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 it 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 ut isn't good
taste to say such things about people"
81 don't, honest and true, Miss Lord. I
said to my ma. | said: Ma, you don't |
know nothing about it, He amt real
ly my teachers man. It's the fit and
f1utter teacher what likes Miss Lord"
And who may he be-" inquired the
teacher with a gasp of establishment.
He's our exercise 'structor Mr..
We kids call him fit and
hutter,' because he always kept telling
us to fit and flutter when we drilled
for our butterfly entertainment said
to my ma, I said 'P'raps l don't know
my long division but 7 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
ention to your long division as you
10 to other peoples affairs you would
learn your numbers. You
re certainly case for the psychol-
gy department"
1--WE have nicknames for all the
eachers,' declared the loquacious
1yra, not at all abashed "The sing .
1g superintendent is 'Do-Mi-Sol.' We
all the sewing lady 'Thimble,' be-
ause she gets such a mad when we
orget our thimbles The drawing
ldy is 'Tiptoe. She walks as if she
as afraid of waking the baby"
What disrespectful class OF chill
rem | have!" exclaimed the amused
ok and failing. AS token of her
apitulation she added. smiling: Il
onder if have a nickname?"
''Dast l tell you yours?" asked
yra.
Pm eager to hear it,"
Yours is Lady Violet because you
ways smell so nice OF violets
,pe l will when I'm a big lady"
THANK you That's very nice
ckname' :
Teacher" said Myra after mo-
ent's silence, Italia Zwick amt -
ming to school tomorrow She's -
t to go to the doctors for her nose.
is her nose at the doctors?" laugh
Miss Lord.
NO, a'am, but she has badinoids
ats the reason she's so bad When
eyre taken out she won't make no
IRE whisperings in school"
Poor child, I'm sorry for her. Give
r my love"
oh! OH Miss Lord Look quick
ere's anautomobile. It's your swell;
S coming right into school. My,
ur cheeks look pretty and red.'
'Myra, Pm afraid your mother will
worrying about you Now, you'd
ter run home, dear Thank you for
ping ME so nicely"
Good-by, teacher. My ma won't
re no mad on me when l tell her
at I seem