Show THE UNHAPPY TEACHER I have a friend who teaches In one of the Boston schools says Martha Baker Dunn In the July Atlantic the lust person in the world who would ever voluntarily be found marching in processions pro-cessions or engaging In handtohand encounters with mobs Yet on Dewey day she spent hours In helping to marshal mar-shal a host of school children through crowded streets picking them from under the feet of trampling hordes and protecting them from utter de structlon when they were overrun by mob violence Vii J V M Well what then said my companion com-panion would you have had the poor llttlo chaps ull left at home Thats the way we teach cm patriotism rub it In you see Every one of those children I said severely was legally entitled to two parents In the everlasting economy oC things though many of them dont seem to suspect lu If the time ever comes when the enriched natural history his-tory couracj demand that the pupil shall be sent Into wild beasts cages In order to observe their habits It Is the teacher who will be doomed to accompany accom-pany them And if during the visit the lion begins to lick his chops and de inuml food It is the teacher who will be expected to come cheerfully to the front and say Eat me When I accepted ac-cepted my present munificent salary I prepared myself of course not to falter fal-ter at little sacrifices like this In the meantime the child will have retired in good order and the parent the female parent will be safely at home embroidering em-broidering a dolly or writing a paper for the Womans club What the male parent will he doing Is one of the things nc fellow could be expected lo know |