The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-11

POOA "OAA1dA III uOL ODSy uST Oru6rS. |
How is your pupil getting on, papa?"
asked one day.
Not at all He's stupid as an owl.
He can't even conjugate the present
tense of the verb to love-"
DO you think he'll pass his entrance
college examinations
Not this year."
| Father was not looking at me. so
was at liberty to raise my eyes to
heaven with mute thanks and resoIv-
ed that if the coaching should con-
tinue for another year, in case the in
structOr could not teach the pupil how
TO conjugate the verb ito love" l would
do so myself
| For year Julian Trowbridge came
and went for his lessons, taking no no
tice of me whatever. The next spring
] | asked father if he thought his pupil
/ would be able to enter college that year
| Possibly" he replied, by hard bon
! ing, but he has no taste for the elias
| sizes. don't see why his father wishes
| to send him to university"
| Has be learned TO conjugate the
| verb to loveT" asked.
Father gave me a quick glance
! had changed a good deal within the
! year and might now have passed for a
| young lady. But he saw no conscious
ness Of a double meaning in my de,
meanor and7replied:
oh he's got beyond that. of course.
| but he couldn't yet pass an examina
| ton on Caesars Commentaries
He must be very Backward | re
marked carelessly, and as | left the
| room father called to me, You're far
ahead of him.
This gave me an idea | had met the
"blOCkhead' many times, and he was
beginning to treat me with more CON
sideration. One day said to him: II
! think father is too impatient with YOU.
| If you Il let me read Latin with you
l'm sure Wen be a help to each other"
He accepted my offer, and | told ia
| Their that he might spend the time he
was deVOting to Julian in his library.
| turning his pupil over to me. Father
was very glad TO get rid of him, and
| the very next day Julian and | were
seated on a rustic bench under a tree
with q copy of Vergl between us.
have boys of my own now, and
| surely would not consent to have one
OF them fab under such all influence as
Julian TroWbridge experienced at that
| time l'had no more intention of teach
ing him the dead languages than had
Of teaching him to fly in the air. For
/ tunately for him, however, | had in
herited my fathers ability to learn and
to teach them. My object was to teach
him to cOniugate the verb Ito love-
Il love, thou lowest, he or she loves, we
love. you love. they love" In short. in
my code of instruction every one loved
and that's all they did. But since
Julian nina was bent especially upon
| getting into college and he found in me
a more seductive teacher than my
father the lesson resulted more to his
eruditiOn than might have been sup
| posed. didn t care how much Latin
he learned provided he didn't fail TO
master the verb Ito love" Girls be
tween, say, twelve and sixteen are
usually far more capable of learning
than boys. This gave me an advan-
/ tage. taught Julian Latin and at the
same time deftly WOve in that other
! instruction which was far nearer my
heart. | prepared him to enter college
and to be my future husband at the
same time. In learning the first he
was not as stupid as my father consid
cred Elm: as to the other | confess !
had a very hard time with him. He
would cOnjugate the verb Ito love.
saying Il love" with no feeling what
ever. One day while he was doing ST.
| in this perfunctOry way sat very near
| him-sO near. indeed, that few loose
strands of my hair brushed against his
! cheek. Suddenly there came a tervGi
into his voice that | had vainly OK
| pected for weeks Then felt an arm
| ste# ing around my waist, and | knew
that my pupil was prepared both fo'
college and to be my lover.
He passed his entrance examination
without condition and gave me al
the credit for enabling him to do SO.
But you do father an Injustice !
| demonstrated you must admit
What? That old bookwOrm? He may
know a lot but he has no ability what
ever to impart knowledge to any one
| else. Why. DO you know, be spent
months trying to teach me TO conju'
! gate the verb to love without my be
| ing able to catch even the mood As
for 1 am loved | didn't know any
| thing about it.
| | laughed and remarked that | was
the only one of the three who at that
| time knew all about that mood.
! If | had considered my youth and
the years that must intervene before
could claim my conquest for my own
possibly ! might have desisted Bur
youth considers nothing.
| have said that having boys Of MY
own. ! would not like IL have them fall
under the same influence that their
father fell under at eighteen This
needs to be qualified? 1t depends on
the girl If any of my sons should al
that age fall in love with a girl who
= would have in her the traits to bold
his affection when he has grown Older
and to make him a valua bic life help
meet should be very glad 10 have him
do SO. | believe that early mating Is
not only natural but beneficial, pro
vided the persons mating are fitted fos