The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-04-01

TWEEN TWO anu tOuI tuST6 uHO DeSu
many little sticky fingers pulling at
her sleeves and skirt, and you just
have 10 cuddle dear little library chit.
dren. even when they're not extra
clean; and when Vera Aronsohn
burst into heart broken tears on the
Liberty Teachers blue wooden shout
der because her pet fairy book was
missing. she had caught several
strands Of the teachers yellow hair
in her anguish, much to the hairs
detriment.
1t was straight heavy hair. and it
would have been OF a dense and
fluffy honey color. only that 1t was
furnished scr lack CO tbs constant
sunnings and brushings which blonde
hair must have to stay its best self.
And her skin. too. that should have
been living rose and cream, was
dulled by exposure to all weathers,
and lack of time to pet it with creams
and powder; perhaps a little, too, by
the very stupid things to eat one
gets at a dairy lunch and boarding
house. Some OF the assistants did
interesting cooking over the library
gas range, but tho Liberty Teacher
couldn't do that because she hadn't
time.
She went on defiantly thinking
about her looks. 1t isn't noble
minded thing to do, but when you
might be so very very pretty II you
only had little time to be it in
"Yes, might" said Phyllis to her
shocked self defiantly Yes,
the shape of her face was all right
still. Hard work and scant atten.
ton couldn't spoil its pretty oval.
But her cyes-weii. you can't keep
your eyes as blue and luminous and
childlike as they We're back in the
New England country, when you have
been using them hard for years in a
bad light And oh, they had been
such nice eyes when she was Just
Phyllis Narcissa at home, so long
and blue and wondering! And now
the cataloging had heayied the lids
and etched line between her
straight brown bgows. They weren't
decorative eyes now and they
filled with indignant self sympathy.
The Liberty Teacher laughed at her
self a little here. The idea Of eyes
that cried about themselves was fun
ny, somehow.
Direct from producer to consum-
er!" she quoted half aloud. and wiped
each eye conscientiously by itself.
Teacher! l want a liberty called
Bride of Lemon Hill! demanded
small citizens just here 1.-The school
teacher, she says | must to have
it,"
Phyllis thought hard. But she had
to search the pinned up list OF re-
Quired reading for schools for three
solid minutes before she bestowed
sThe Bride OF Lammermoor" on a
1s-year-old daughter Of Hungary.
..rhta ia It isn't !: It, he::cyy:" she she
asked with the flashing smile for
which her children, among other
things, adored her.
'tYes. ma'am, thank you, teacher
said the 13-year-old gratefully; and
went off to a corner, where she sat
TIL closing time entranced over her
own happy choice, "The Adventures
OF Peter Rabbit" with colored pic
lures dotting it satisfactorily. Ths
Liberty Teacher knew that 1t was
her duty to go over and hypnotizs the
child into reading something which
would lead more directly to Brown
ing and Strindberg. But she didn't
aPoor little wop!" she thought I'M
academically. Let her be happy in
her own way!"
And the Liberty Teacher herself
went on being unhappy in her own
way.
'T'm just a battered bisque doll"
she repeated to herself bitterly.
But she was wrong. One is apt to
exaggerate things on a wofkaday
Saturday afternoon. She looked more
like a pretty bisque figurine; slim
and clear cut and a little neglected,
perhaps. by It's owners. and dressed
In working clothes instead 81 the
pretty draperies It should have had;
but needing only touch or so,
little busting, SO to speak, to be as
good as ever.
Eva never was as pretty as Il
was!s her rebellious thoughts went
on. You think things. You know,
that you'd never say aloud. 'T'm
sick Of eievating the public! I'm sick
Of working had 81 weeks out Of So (
for board and lodging and carfare
ss 81 81 b ISIS anu the occasionM so
ciety OF few girls who don't get
any more out OF life than do! I'm
sick Of Libraries, and Of being eff
Client! want 70 bo real rirII oh