Evening star., 1928-01-20
Twelve Little Goslings.

Iberia was the most deter
~ mined baby that ever was born
N Her mother said SO again and
"A again When she wanted any
thing she made life miserable
FOR those around her until she got it..
Alberta's mother was very wise. how
ever. and little by little she trained her
to see that others had rights that must
be respected and that there were times
when life makes the strongest yield.
Alberta's ambition from her earliest
DAYS was to teach school. There she
would be in absolute control. She would
not need to be constantly deferring to
the rights and power Of those above
her.
So she entered a normal. maioring
IN manual training. She confidently eX-
pected to be elected at once as special
manual training teacher in the city
schools. An ideal position this where
ehe could tell both pupils and grade
teachers to do thus and so. knowing
her control was absolute in her line
She was too inexperienced to know
teachers must reckon with the school
board, which is in absolute control Of
their oestinieS in that particular line
Ut least. So she was shocked and cha
grinned to find she was loftily omitted
from the list of teachers for the coming
term.
There was nothing to do but seek ex-
perience in the rural districts and Al
berta found their ranks were we'll filled
by this time. so well, in fact, that the
only thing she could get was the school
In the tiny village of Brier Hill. This
school had the reputation OF being very
hard TO manage. Indeed. in the year
preceding one Of the teachers had been
literally dragged out of the school room
by her hair.
II the pupils had seen the thin firm
line Of Alberta's lips and the Steely look
In her deep blue eyes as she turned TINS
occurance over in her mind they would
eieefuuy have laid plans for the Win
tiers battle They would have hard
time dragging me out by the hair, Al
berta smiled 10 herself as she ran her
6Ylzers through her curly Shingled bob.
Alberta loved the sleepy little village
at once. where chickens Stroueo non
chalantly along the few side streets.
contented COW or two broWsed along the
roadside. and dogs and cats marched
supercilously hither and yon. She was
surprised. TOO, at the tasteful house
dresses Of the mothers, the collegiate
sweaters OF the young men and the
Uodish frocks Of the girls. Rural COM
munities evidently were much more up
TO date than she had been led TO believe.
She unpacke6 her manual training
outfit and had it all ready before she
opened her trunk Manual training was
evidently new idea in this blaze ham
let and her new people looked at her
outfit with unconcealed interest while
she looked at them with concealed tre-
pidation. There were 40 of them, rang
ing from the lowest possible admittance
age TO three months younger than her
self These pagans were TO be under
her absolute control
Aloeyta's indomitable spirit Quelled the
trembling Of her slim 5 feet inch
body. With outward calm, matched by
growing inward quiet, she seated her
school in classes. assigned lessons and
announced that the class that attended
to lessons and order best should be al
lowed the last hour for manual train
ing exercise.
OF course. baby bodies accustomed 10
freedom could not be perfectly still. nor
could the intermediates with their live
wire attributes, so the Oldest ones had
the first lesson. 1t is hard TO tell
whether they or their observers were
the most impressed.
Like real general. Alberta followed
UP this Obvious advantage, which was
re-eaforced by her inherent ability 10
control others and her liking Of her
own way.