Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-12
THE EVENING STORY.
Discipline. |
Discipline
Copyright. 1918. by..w. werner)

Copyright 1915 by-.w Werner.)
But, Miss Sawyer. / make my pupils
| understand that | must be obeyed."
| Lucille KarrelI pursed her pretty lips
| primly and threw proud glance into
the room behind her. the second grade,
where rows of little heads were turned
| inauisitively toward the two teachers.
Kitty Sawyer bit her lips to keep back
an impatient retort that keeping order
among a room of second-grade babies
and managing the boisterous. half-grown
boys and girls of the difficult seventh
grade We're two entirely different things.
Her own glance went to a saucy baby in
dainty blue linen in the front seat of the
row nearest the corridor door-a little,
spoiled thing with black curls. whom
Arthur Hart. aged fourteen. had been
accused OF teasing.
Arthur saws he didn't mean" 10 hurt
her-he merely shook her because she
wouldn't get out of the way when they
We're playing ball at recess, she eX-
planned as suaveN as possible. You
know Mildred is spoiled. Miss karrell
Perhaps she exaggerated.
Lucille karreil shook her head indig-
nantly. "Nonsense He is a big rough
boy. And / will certainly report it to
Prof. Reed she said. She went back
to her pupils, and Kitty hurried upstairs
10 her own brood. where she lectured
Arthur a sullen. rather good-looking
boy. severely, and eXtorted reluctant
promise that he would avoid trouble in
the future.
Kitty was glad that it was Friday
afternoon and a trying week. was about
to end-the last week of the first month
of the school year. She was tidying her
desk, the last scholar had trooped out
and old Jensen, the janitor, was empty
ing the waste, basket, when Prof Reed
stepped in. He was u keen-eyed young
man. with all the poise that four years
at Harvard give and distinctive con-
trast to old Prof Hale. who had resigned
at the beginning of the year on account
of ill-health. Kitty had never minded
W hen gray-w hiskered old Prof. Hale came
in his face stern and his eyes twinkling.
to learn why she couldn't make those
young limbs toe the mark But Prof.
Reed embarrassed her. She always had
the impression that he was contrasting
her with Lucille. So now she answered
briefly that Arthur had promised to
amend his ways Prof Reed fingered a
minute. evidently wanting to talk further
but her air of reserve did not encourage
him and, finally, he withdrew. moment
later she saw him go down the street
with Lucille. Both We're talking gayly.
Kitty closed her desk slowly. Somehow
Lucille stirred all the latent discomfort of
her ordinarily contented disposition Kitty
as the oldest of eight children had got
an education more by logged will power
than by any other means. day at school
had been followed by two days at home
caring for one of the ever-arrivinG babies.
Her father was a shiftless laborer. who
worked when the spirit moved him. which
was not regularly. Her mother was al
ways tired and ailing. When she finally
got a certificate, and after two years i'm
the country schools. town grade. her
monthly check Immediately moved the
family from penury to comfort. Now
she was bending every effort to pull two
young sisters to the same goal and help
the oldest boy TO the trades school that
he longed for.
Lucille Karrell was the only daughter OF
the president Of the bank. She had spent
two years in an exclusive boarding sch DOL,
two years at Vassar and then when she
came home went into the schools from a
within that she called a desire to be in the
world and other people called desire to
pose. II probably was a mixture of both.
She was pretty girl in prim dainty