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Show Trials of Popular Teacher. A young woman who teaches Bchool in a neighboring town is now suffering from the results of a sincere act of kindness that she recently performed. The youug woman thought it would be a nice thing oue pleasant, sunny day not long ago to give the children of her class an outing. There were about thirty in the class, aud they were all youngsters of tender years. She informed them at the noou hour that she would take them for a walk in the afternoon, and at the request of several who wanted their little brothers aud sisters sis-ters to go along she gave permission to all of them to bring their friends if they chose. This was what caused all hertrouble. She did not know how popular she was and what an attraction the prospect of a walk in the fields was to the children of the neighborhood. When school was over she started out with her class. The route had been previously pre-viously announced, aud as they went along they met contingents of the friends of the members on every corner. These all fell in line and swelled the proces sion until it became of really remarkable remark-able proportions, considering that it was under the charge of one young woman. Everything went fairlywell in the city, but when the fields were reached the children broke ranks and scattered and the young woman was unable to control them, al though she did her best. The weather changed and the rain began to fall, and the young woman gathered her charges about her as best she could aud started for home, the children straggling aioDg after her. The rain was not serious, and most of the children, dropping out of line as it neared their homes, reached their mothers hi safety, but in the hurry some straggled and were lost, and through the early hours of the evening their distracted parents sought for thcin, finally discover ing them in the police station. The young woman is now receiving a great deal of blame for letting the children go adrift, and she says that probably she deserves it, although it seems to her to be rather hard, in view of her kind intentions. New York Tribune. |
