The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-03-15
TALES OUT Of
SCHOOL
BY A DESK.
BY Majorls Howard,


Everyone who has been in a
school room knows how a desk looks
SO don't suppose | shall have to
describe myself.
am an oak desk and | can dis.
tinctly remember the time when I
stood on high hill looking down
on the world. Just how | came TO
nave an educational calling | don't
know, but here am in Miss Collins
room at the Moran School and here
| am likely to stay forever, perhaps.
DO not see much of the world
put | hear great deal of it, as Neal
Jones Is my present occupant ami
such talker | never heard before
in all my life. Her mouth never
closes, even when she gets sent To
the corner, She is about twelve
years of age and pretends to be quite
a young lady, but she is not above
standing in the corner.
My face has been badly SCARED by
pen knives in idle hands. | have
heard Miss Collins say that an idle
brain is the Devils WORKSHOP" and
| am ready to say that idle hands
are the Devils workmen," for | am
a sad sight. When | came into the
Moran School for the first time |
was securely nailed to the floor
perhaps to keep me from running
away and the desks that had been in
school for quite a while began tell.
ing me their stories. Some were
most horrible, you may well believe.
Inc very next morning Jimmy
Darrell, my first owner, carved his
initials on my newly polished face
was so angry and disguised chat |
Crleu all day, which you humans
call "creaking," and when we desks
cleak, we are dissatisfied or angry
Miss Collins could not stand the
noise so she sent Jimmy for the
Janitor, who fastened me to the
moor with some more of those (lat.
headed things that you call nails"
stopped ccIing for something
else hal 'la.med my attention. II
was Eva Lori J rs. She AS
the most precise little girl that
ever sa = Sh" niNl missed n les.
son; she never missed a dav of
school; she never talked in school
without permission; she was the
Dest'mannered child that ever wa,
and the teachers loved her as much
as the children disliked her. She
walked in the clouds and wore a
golden halo on her head. All she will
have to do when she dies is to walk
right into heaven.
There are Eva Dora's" eyery-
where. Perhaps the girl that sits
next to you in school is one. When
children are so extraordinarily good,
they are cheating themselves out of
lot of fun. What would life be
without some mistakes? 1t is NOT
necessary to be bad like Tommy
Clark. He was the worst boy! He
used to pull the girls hair ribbon off
and hide it in Miss Collins apron
pocket. How he did it / do not
Know, but of course | do know thar
Miss Collins was often placed in
u very embarrassing position. He
used to put tacks in the seats for
the girls to sit on and one day he
brought a tadpole to school and put
1t down Elsie Grizzard's back. Oh,
my. How she did scream! | shall
never forget as long as | live how
comlcal she appeared jumping I'D
and down, yelling; Miss Collins,
Miss Collins! Tommy put a snake
down my back! He'll bite me- Oh,
dear, he'll kill mel"
The children could not help laugh
ing, but one of the girls took Elsie
out of doors. Soon she came back
with the startling news that Elsie
was dead from the Snake bite"
Miss Collins rushed out, followed bv
all OF the children, but they soon
came back for Elsie had only tainted
from fear. She was revived in a
short time and her mother came for
her. For a while | thought Tommy
would faint also He turned as pale
as death, for he thought that Elsie
was dead and he was the cause of
1t. | suppose he saw himself in Jail.
Here are some examples OF CONVEX
sation that we desks hear:
Annie, lend me your spelling ma.
per. Uncle Jim took us to the
movies last night and / ditnt get
any lesson. I'll ten you about the
play at recess. What do you think?
Mary Lou and her beau were at the
show last night and so much love
talk you never heard! | was sitting
right behind them and | heard every
word they said"
One girl has the toothache and
some one is giving her remedy in
this way:
MY grandmother told mamma
that when you have a toothache lust
to put some peppermint in it and
grandma, she knows, she does"
Another remedy goes like this:
Papa says to put hot iron OIL
your tooth when it aches and he saws
it will surely stop. My papa knows
most anything that's worth knowing"
How would you like to be a desk :?
We desks know the children better
than the teacher does.
Perhaps l shall be here in school
forever, knowing more and more
children as the years go by.
Pearl High School Voice.
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