Lehi Sun | 1928-02-23 | Page 7

February 24, 1928 yivia Copyright by Dodd. Mead A Cm. CHAPTER V Continued 12 Meely decided tliat for at least a few weeks she could breathe freely, ind feel comparatively secure from the danger of a visit. And that very, morning, Just after jess time, as the children were trooping in from the playground, he walked In on her. Oh, dear, you here again !" she openly lamented as he, without offering offer-ing her his hand, bowed rather curtly and drew forth a platform chair not, however, seating himself while she stood, a courtesy to which she had, for so ninny months, been a stranger, that It thrilled her, to her amusement, almost as much as St. Croix' "manners" "man-ners" had thrilled Nettie the night he-fore. he-fore. "I'm here," he grimly stated, standing stand-ing behind his chair and folding his arms with a resolute, Napoleonic air that made her heart sink, "to hear yon teach geography J" "Ilere I stand so help me Gawd !" she mocked at his -determined mien. "Martin Luther!" "And I don't leave this schoolroom until I have heard you!" "Oh, gee !". she sighed. He set his lips and stared straight ahead of him. "I've had this schoo! on my conscience con-science since you yourself admitted that you can't teach. We can't let these children suffer from your excuse ex-cuse me incompetence. Will you call a geography class. Miss Schwenck-ton?" Schwenck-ton?" Did he or did he not hesitate over her name? She could not feel sure. "But why this passionate interest in geography?" she complained. "Aren't you longing to see me teach , spelling? I'll call a spelling class" "Geography, If you please." "I suppose," she said accusingly, "you just want to expose me as not knowing any geography of the United States! Well, If you call that chivalrous'' chival-rous'' "I'm not here to be chivalrous, but to hear you teach." "Why won't spelling do?" "I prefer geography." "Just because I jokingly pretended to think there were forty-seven states instead of fifty-seven! and told you that when I was a mere child, I thought the Mississippi river ran east and west l" "Exactly." "Well," she said reflectively, "well, Mr. Creighton, before I take your request re-quest Into consideration, will you tell me what Is the extent of, your power over my job? Can you take it from me?" "I can advise your school board to take It from you. But," he hastily added, "of course I don't want to ! I'd hate like the dickens" "Again he pulled himself up. "I should greatly dislike," he said primly, "to resort to such stringent measures." "That's better sounds more professional," profes-sional," 6he encouraged bim. "Be professional or die!" The children of the school were all seated now rigidly upright, in the presence of that magnate, the county superintendent and Meely could no longer dally with, the situation; she must decide what to do. She might repeat the successful geography lesson she had already given that morning morn-ing on Italy though a deliberate repetition of the whole performance would be so astonishing to the children chil-dren as to be embarrasing to their teacher! For Venice, she had given them the songs of the gondoliers, and Impersonations of Portia and Shylock : for Naples, street beggars and .coral workers; for Rome, Impersonations of Caesar and Mark Antony with tales ' gladiators interspersed; for Flor-nce, Flor-nce, Impersonations of Savonarola and the Medici. Much more than the school had been able to digest at one dose, but she had enjoyed it, feeling now cleverly she wa9 doing it ah, ttere was the rub! She' did it too Beverly, too professionally. She could not risk offering It !o Marvin Creighton. Creigh-ton. Well, then, nothing left but to try to give a geography lesson In the pro-uninteresting pro-uninteresting way she had seen " done In a school she had isi-d. nere the teacher, for a weary half fioor, had had the children telling S' what states enclosed other tates. What had the teacher called that a certain word she had used? '"U bore this man so he'll keep ay from here for the rest of his !" she determined. "&-bilia," she addressed the bright-Elrl bright-Elrl of the class that she sum- 10 s,and before the dfisk' whi!e and the superintendent now sat o 'ind it. -enclose the state of Penn-lvania." Penn-lvania." ZfWlIa looked blank. -What's that ,B to dur , "Enclose Pennsylvania," repeated confidently. ' Zebllla still looked unenlightened en dazfd. j wou;dn't know how tc. flont know right how you mean i"-ios if ll7 aw sIie had tten tne wro,1S i t ciean surround it; tell "i watea. if any. surround It or of die M By HELEN R. MARTIN what bodies of water, nr does enclose, surround or circumscribe circum-scribe it!" she explained desperately. Ach, do you mean. Miss Schwenck-ton. Schwenck-ton. In to bound Pennsylvania?" "That's the word ves, bind It." A snort from the county superintendent superin-tendent was a signal for Ule aum.eu school and they broke into a roar of laughter that revealed to the embarrassed embar-rassed teacher how seriously she had erred. Her face (lushed crimson. She hated this monster sitting on her platform plat-form laughing till the desk shook ! She rapped for order. The school became quiet. "Proceed," she said to Zehilla coldly. "I'ennsyl-wania is bounded on the north" When- Zehilla had finished, Meely took as long a time as possible lit drilling her to pronounce the letter V by catching her lower lip between her teeth. She prolonged this drilling to 1'ie point of absurdity, for if she called on any other pupil of this class to bound a state, she herself would have to keep her eyes glued to the map to see that they got it right. With Zehilla Zook that had not been necessary, neces-sary, for Zebilla could be depended upon to answer correctly. She always knew her lessons with depressing thoroughness. So it was not until the poor girl became restive and resentful resent-ful under her prolonged drilling that the teacher desisted. "P,ind Connecticut, Hiram," she at last proceeded most reluctantly. "Connecticut is bounded on the north by Massachusetts, on the east by Rhode Island" "Oh, come, an island can't bind anything. any-thing. What is an island, Hiram?" she asked, very pleased at Hiram's blunder, for here she could be sure of her ground ; she did at least know the forms of land and water! "But Rhode Island," said Hiram, gazing at her almost in horror, "ain't no island" Her finger on the map, she could see for herself, now, that It wasn't and turning hot and cold with consternation, con-sternation, she yet tried to save herself. her-self. "Very good, Hiram I was trying try-ing to catch you up ! Of course we all know how It came to be called an island? Zebilla?" But Zehilla, her stand-by, failed her there she did not know! "I'll ask the class," said Meely hastily, has-tily, "to look that up for next lesson." She feared she was not succeeding In her plot to "bore" the superintendent. superintend-ent. She saw. In a quick side glance, that he looked anything but bored. Indeed, he seemed to be enjoying himself. him-self. Probably he'd stay the rest of the day! Oh, how she hated and despised de-spised him! Conceited pedagogue! After a few more states had been bound (her eyes and finger fastened the while to the map) she heaved a sigh of relief and dismissed the class to their seats. "Now. you've had your heart's desire de-sire and have heard me teach geography. geogra-phy. What further," she Inquired with dignity, "can I do for you?" "I leave it to you," he bowed, making mak-ing no move whatever to go. She decided to call up a reading class. There were no serious pitfalls for her in American literature. That is, if she could manage to resist the temptation to act out the reading lesson, les-son, In case It happened to be a "piece" (as the pupils would say) that lured her to a dramatic execution of It! She settled that danger by ordering the class to turn to a speech of Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt's. And too late she realized her mistake. The speech abounded in political allusions which none but a native American would understand. If only no one asked any questions! They so seldom did manifest mani-fest curiosity about anything but it would he just like the perversity of fate to inspire one of them to show off before the superintendent. A hand was raised the youngest little girl in the class. "Please, Miss Schwenckton. what does G. A. It. mean ?" Meely beamed with pleasure, for this was a question she could, as luck would have it, answer with convinc- Tradition Ears Jews' The American Hebrew says that the tradition against intermarriage emong jews Is traced back to Abraham, who ordered his estate manager, hliezer. to obtain a wife for Isaac from among hi Abraham's, own people. In Aramea. It' should he added that this is only a tradition. It became a pnn-tic. among .lews at the time they returned from the Babylonian exile in the Fifth century before the common era. Intermarriage, however, has taken place among Jews at all times. Ihe reason why Jews have clung to t,.e tradition of Abraham and the enac -t-ment of Ezra lies in the Ph group consciousness, especially h welded by the religious Ideal. The belief of the Jews that they are a Lrle chosen by God to disseminate tTowledge of Him and His moral and mute W-NT Scrvlc Ing Intelligence. She rejoiced that little Becky had been moved to ask It "The G. A. H. Is a society of American Ameri-can women," she blithely replied, "the Granddaughters of the American Itev-olution, Itev-olution, whose ancestors came over In the .Mayflower." "Well," said Meely Icily, as she stood with the superintendent behind her desk at the end of the morning session. "I suppose that awful conscience con-science of yours will force you to advise ad-vise the school board to discharge me for 'Incompetence'!" They were practically alone now, those of the pupils who did wot go home for the noon meal having gone out of doors to eat their luncheon. Mr. Creighton shook his head. "No, 1 can't be expected always to act disinterestedly dis-interestedly for the good of society I'm only human, after all and yours is the only schoolroom I've ever visited vis-ited that hasn't bored me to death! Whenever I'm dull and need a riot of fun, I can just drop in here and hear you teach geography ! No, I cannot rise to such heights of altruism as to recommend your dismissal I It's asking ask-ing too much ! I'm only hu " "Well, believe me," she retorted resentfully, re-sentfully, "you'll not get a chance to sit 'round here making fun of me I'll resign !" She turned away haughtilybut haugh-tilybut she was too good an nctress not to know that she was not tall enough to look haughty Impressively and suddenly, without warning, she found herself crying. Desperately she fought to control herself, more mortified morti-fied at such a childish display than she could possibly feel over perfectly excusable ignorance of a vast patchwork patch-work quilt of states, or of the fine distinctions dis-tinctions between American alphabetical alphabet-ical symbols D. A. R.'s and G. A. B.'s! Useless information anyway! But the strain of the morning had been too much for her and she could not stop crying. Her breath came In little gasping sobs, her shoulders heaved, she fumbled for her handkerchiefand handker-chiefand not finding it, she jerked open a desk drawer, dragged out a towel and buried her face in It. "Oh, but my child ! you poor kid !" Mr. Creighton unprofessionally and very remorsefully exclaimed. "I didn't want to hurt your feelings! Oh, please!" he begged in distress, laying a reassuring hand on her arm. "Come, come, don't cry ! You're not going to be thrown out of your school and I swear I won't laugh at you any more !" She wiped her nose and her eyes with a corner of the towel. "I'd better bet-ter resign!" she said dolefully, "or you'll be lying awake nights thinking of all the education those children are missing Just because yoa were too weak to withstand a girl's tears !" "Well," he said ruefully, though gently, "you have got me up a tree, you know I How you ever got a Kutz-town Kutz-town Normal school diploma on your knowledge of United States geography" geogra-phy" She showed signs of weeping again, so he hastily veered off. "All right, let's never mention geography again ! I do admit that the pupils in your school are more alert and wideawake wide-awake than any children In the county! There, doesn't that comfort you?" She smiled dazzllngly through her tears. "Oh, but then I'm a success as a teacher ! since the whole purpose pur-pose of teaching children must be to brighten up their wits, not to stuff states and names Into them I It Is not what I pour Into them, but what I lead them to give out!" "Ah, yes, but there's a lot of necessary nec-essary drudgery in teaching which can't be side-stepped, my child; which really must be done. So If you'll be gocd and get down to bard work here " "But indeed I dol These things I &o, yet do not leave the higher matters mat-ters of the spirit undone. I do assure you." He looked skeptical, but evidently did not feel it safe to pursue the subject, sub-ject, her bright eyes looking too ready to shed tears again. "I'm keeping you from eating your lunch," he suddenly said, reaching reluctantly re-luctantly for his hat and coat (TO BE CONTINUED.) 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