Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-31
FIVE

is the ~tenderest one in our American
calendar, we are all sobered when
we think of our boys in khaki, who
make of Decoration Day a day to be
~reverenced anew. Somehow the
Civil Wan has come to seem as re-
mote to us as the Revolution of 1875,
to all of us excerS those few who still
have a fine old grandfather who was
just a slip of a boy at the Battle of
Gettysburg.
1 hope sometime a great American
artist will be born who will get the
intensely dramatic conception of the
Last Civil War Veteran. 1t is thrill
ing. And just now. after some of us
have seen such a figure, the revered
guest of honor in a Memorial Day
parade, we are under the spell of the
poignant appeal Perhaps some
Five-Fffteen girl may be that artist,
who knows?
Annielove, l think we have been
keeping this chair for you eve since
you asked to sit next Mary G.. and
you haven't occupied it since! 1t is
your chair, you know, and We want
to see you in it very often.
- 8 y >
Dear Mary c.:
Ted has been bounding me and
nagging for the last week because |
haven't written to Mary G again. But
Mary c., dear lady, you see that l
mustn't monopolize the Five-Fifteen
when there are so many other girls
who want to come too. And then
besides l haven't a lit'ry hair in my
head, and 1 just can't write letters
even. But I do love Five-Fifteen
and I think you will all like to hear
something more about Ted and the
others.
Ted is the kind of girl who ought
to have loads of money, she's SO ut
terly generous and she has such good
taste, and she has such big ideas.
She can put anything over that she
undertakes, and she undertakes a
lott AS she said in one of her let
tiers recently, she is about the only
girl in Miss Q's school who doesn't
have loads of money, and every va
cation she goes home and helps with
the housework and makes clothes for
her younger sister and her mother,
and helps with the cooking and the
homework and simply ruins her
hands washing dishes. I think that
hurts her pride a little, because she
is so dainty about herself. If she
weren't dainty, and if she didn't have
such a style of her own, she never
could get away with her clothes here
at the school, where all the girls
clothes come from the most exclusive
shop on Fifth avenu But she holds
up her head and steps out sassy, and
she is such an enthusiastic person
and is willing to work so hard for
everything she goes into, that every
body is awfully proud TO know her
because she's in everything. We
girls who know her best love her
most.
She gets~"nerves" once in a while,
although if you mention her having
nerves" she's perfectly furious. But
l think you'd understand Ted If l
told you something that happened
in Math class the other day. The
Math teacher is the queerest man,
awfully bitter and cynical, and he's
just looking at us over his horrid
red beard all the time and laughing
at us all because we have no brains
and we all hate him and hate Math too
1 don't see why he should expect us
to like Math when HE'S such a pig!
But anyway, the other morning
when we went into his room for his
class and the other section that had
the same lesson was late in getting
away, he asked us right off before
he called the roll, if any n of us
had got the solution for an original
problem that he had given US the
day before. Ted hates Math horri-
bly,, but she surprised us all by being
the only one to answe II have it,
Mr.. Benner," she said. And she gave
the answer. The most Iii agreeable
smile slowly sneaked over his horrid
red face. Then he asked Ted, Did
you just hear that from the other
class. Miss CO"
Everybody was looking at Ted,
and the silence was awful for a min
ute. We all knew Ted better than
Mr.. Benner did. She went perfectly
white. Then she spoke in the quiet
est, coolest voice l have ever heard
in my life. mfr. Benner, I think it
is outrageous of you to suspect any
of your students of such a miserable,
contemplate piece of petty dis
honesty. You know there isn't a girl
here who is so low as to ask another
sur ~ sOl'e an olislial itooAeiH' l
think that you owe the class an
apology"
The words don't sound very much,
but if you could have seen her face
and heard her icy voice! Anu she
looked at that nan as if he had been
some venomous reptile.
1t was awful. Then Ted go up to
her feet, still looking at Benaer. She
looked twice as tall as he. She
started out of the class room. - l
knew she was afraid she would CIV.
and evidently so did Benner,-ha had
some sense. if he was a shark in
Maitland Just as she got to the
door. he said, Miss C you are
right. l am sorry, deeply sorry, and
I apologize" Ted couldn't speak.