The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-04-30
HIST! NORMAL
TEACHERS Are
Being WATCHED
Detectives" Evesdrop Men
And Women to Prevent
Secrets Being Known.
PROF. W. G. LEWIS AND
MISS MATTER MAKEUP
Music Directors Old Foe is Ask
ed to Marble in the
Messiah.

An armistice is being effected grad
ually at the Normal, according to
teachers in the music department.
Prof. W. G. Lewis ana Miss Nora
Naeter, who have not been on good
terms for many months, have reach
ed the point where they bow graceful
ly and smile whsn they meet. This
would have been the equivalent of q
declaration Of war some months ago.
But things in the department Of mu-
sic are not what they were some
weeks ago, the teachers say. There
has been a gradual loOsening up Of the
tension ever since it became known
that state OF revolution existed.
Prof. Lewis and Miss Nacter have
taken turns in snubbing each other
for months, the teachers say, but they
have really made up. Honest!
There was 4 whispered conversation
in the corridor leading 70 the music ds<
partment Yesterday morning, and dur
ing the conference someone said that
the music director and Prof. Lewis
had buried the Ratchet.
do tell" chiTped chorus of voices.
81 can't believe it," said one dubi-
GUS person of the gentler sex.
Honest, injun," whispered another,
and then they all looked about to see
if anyone was near enough to over
hear what had been SAID.
Prof. Lewis actually said So" one
Of the young ladies remarked in an
undertonc, thinking that the Emusic
department detective" might have ar
ear to the ground.
you know we have a detective with
US now" one of the young ladies re
marked, and everybody looked about
about them to see whether "the detcc-
tive" was on the job, but she wasn't.
''Now listen" began one Of the
teachers" what 90 yos tninil Of q de
tective who listens to what we have
to say and then goes right to head
quarters ~
\ Everybody looked up and down the
corridor again, and one suspicious per
son peeped into an open door to salts
fy herself that the detective was not
at a keyhole.
But the coast was clear. Il think
she is the mean thing, that's what !
think" answered one. Again every
one turned and looked up and down
the corridor.
q wouldn't be surprised if there
isn't dictrograph Observation-Disclosures
in this hail." whispered = teacher, and
everyone strained their ears 10 listen.
Then-iust as if they had been talk
ing about the weather the teachers
meeting broke up and each one went
to her respective room.
But Prof. Lewis and Miss Nacter
are not longer enemies. He has been
invited to sing in the Messiah, and
has accepted. But he feels that he has
been given the worst of it. Instead Of
being notified several weeks ago, in
order that he might have ample time
10 practice his part, he only learned
of it last Friday.
A female detective is broad at the
Normal. She can hear a pin fall for a
distance Of block, the teachers say,
and when she does she hastens right
to the boss.
The detective has not trapped any
one as yet, but she has put an end to
all star chamber conferences inside
the school. The teachers either get
together at some residence in the
evening or manage TO accidentally
meet in the corridors.
The detective has only been on the
Job since The Tribune began printing
the stories of actual conditions at the
Normal School. 1t is SAID that male
sleuth is also busy among the profess
sors in an effort to locate the recent
"leaks." The detective working among
the men is Il man, Of course, and gets
a salary for teaching.
Teachers, both men and women,
have reached the stage where they are
afraid to divulcc their middle names
for fear it would be construed as of
sensive to the car or czaZlGs..