South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-08
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| Priscilla was thinking She had
done lot of thinking since June,
and in fact before that. because the
trouble had started long before the
end of the school year when it had
/ finally eliminated in John Crozier
/ losing his temper and saying awful
things
1t really began with the school
1 board "a year before when they had
/ introduced an art" course into the
4 regular curriculum. which hereto
/ fore had consisted Of only bone dry
/ material such as males approve But
I two women got themselves elected to
/ the dictatorship and modified this
diet Of solids 10y music. art, and a
! touch of domestic science
Now. John Crozier. the principal
/ OF the largest school i'm town and
known affectionately TO the children
/ by the tender title Of The Bulldog"
/ had barked characteristically at this
/ change of form.
Just as soon as women take a
| hand in affairs they let down in
standard about 80 percent" he
stormed Singing and daubing in
washy colOrs and wasting flour and
! butter. is all nonsense But of
/ course / suppose it doesn't hurt the
youngsters to sing once in a while.
| and as for the cooking. ] suppose a
/ few OF them may learn enough to
/ keep from starving but as for art"
i ~ i l..
! ically.
ITS all nonsense" And having
issued an ultimatum bulldog like.
he hung on. Mr.. Crozier was never
/ known to change his mind.
Now. what Priscilla had 10 do with
all this was considerable for she
was the art teacher. the one respOn-
sible for the "daubing in washy col
ors." the sponsor for certain violent
I landscapes and horrifc sunsets. of
| flowers the bOtainies did not boat.
and of animals. species undiscovered.
| True. her own examples on the
/ b-ackboa were always a delight 10
/ the eye, but when Mr.. CrOzier hap
1 pened into a room where the art
4 lesson was in progress, il was not
] these delightful examples that he
| seemed TO see. but little. struggling
\ dirty fingers tracing their awfulness
/ on paper that was worth "a dollar a
pound ard good for any number Of
\ problems in long or short division.
Invariab bly, the Bulldog" growled
and made for the door much TO Pris-
I elias amusement at first. then to
her Indignation. and finally to her
hurt. And in June the grand finale
had arrived when supplies had come
and the principal. overyorked. over
heated and tried beyond endurance
had called the crayons and paints
| damned useless stuff" in Priscilla's
hearing.
Then for the first time she put in
a defense and stiff one Mr.. Gro
zieh. if all the world We're deprived
o. the softening effect OF art" she
declared il would be no more an at
traCtive place 10 live in than-than
if we all had the same kind of dis
positions"
And So completely dumbfounded
was he 10y this rebuke from pretty.
quiet Priscilla that he was the first
TIVE in his life without a proper re-
/ ply
So now Priscilla was thinking
again of that day. out on the links
in the bright October sun it came
back more wildly than it had done
for weeks. most probably because
John Crozier himself was at the club
playing and she had caught a
glimpse of him as he drove off num-
Der three IL was the first she had
seen him since June. because he had
been away all summer and since
school began she had managed 10 get
supplies when he was out. and IN
turn he had evidently avoided a
meeting not forgetting the reference
TO dispositions that had evidently
gone home
Mr.. Crozier rather priced himse Z
on his golf Priscilla left ii. rather
than knew IL He never talked 10
his teachers about his prowess, nor
, about anything personal for that
matter. but If he didn't want II
known why did he keep three large
silver trophies in stately array across
T the top of his desk in the office
This was the first time Priscilla
had seen him playing and she was
Interested His drive of number
o three had been a beauty.
Then something happened. Pris-
leila had lost sight of the enemy tht
woods and "a rise I'm the ground in
teryening She played steadily on
making long. straight shots hat tai
lied into wonderfully short score
. Finally. being interested in her owl
game she forgot about John Gro
81 zier altogether.
AT number five she teed her ball
.nt hrr direction DOWN ne WIDE tan