Show I WHAT IS SHE WORTH Under the above heading Colliers pars this tribute to Lo the Iho teacher A teacher Is writing on the black blackboard blackboard board As she oho looks over oer the tho panels covered with wIlh close script the tho thought crosses her mind what is she hired to todo todo do Several hours had hall been spent the hc evening before In planning arranging log ing considering proportioning and weighing her bor material in diagram diagramming diagramming diagramming ming outlining analyzing anal zing The rho power to do this did not come without some torno degree of special training To pro produce produce produce duce these figures in visible form on ou her ber blackboard Is assuredly not n t tho the end There remains first the tho work of supervising the copying into the note notebooks notebooks notebooks books of two hundred pupils These books books must then come under her inspection To keep tho the records involves a system of bookkeeping moro more or less loss complex Of tho the two hundred pupils one hundred and fifty fIn may muy be bo relied relict upon to he good aver average average age ige reasonably earnest students who perform their tasks without undue urging or compulsion Tho remaining fifty may mar be classified as weaklings shirks incompetents defectives ab absentees absentees absentees A certain amount of or energy Is s expected in seeking these out track tracking tracking ing ng them down bringing thorn them before her tribunal to Lo answer for their faults i Herewith follow hearings healings given ghen to lis Us Usen listen I Iten ten en to excuses excuses and reasons for delin delinquencies I I which must then be duly duh weighed and considered She must enter Into and administer the offices of oC a lawyer law er In weighing this testimony mony mon monr of the doctor because frequent lr I y questions of health aro are Involved and ind it becomes her province to bring bringo to o the tho notice of proper authorities cases of deafness eye cre trouble catar catarrhal rhal adenoids and other ills possibly misunderstood neglected but ut which Incapacitate the pupil for tho the re required required required work There cuter enter also tho time duties du duties ties tics of tho the minister in preaching a Uglier higher regard for duty dut in developing a finer moral sense In urging to a anore amore amore more nore worthy effect those these specimens of or frail humanity She feels called I upon to exercise the tho patience of the saint to pour out the tho full measure of his faith his hope and his charity charlt Having HaYing encountered hero here this more or oress orless orless less ess stubborn spirit of resistance her next office is to exercise the functions of the judge Site She understands that her decision must not vary in the cst esti estimation mation of a hair in the tho nice adjust adjustment adjustment adjustment ment between beLeen censure and pity but hut this decision having been rendered in injustice injustice justice tempered with mercy morcy her herom office om co Changes hanges to that of executor of her own wn decree and she may not rest until sho silo has performed with a sure suro hand land tho the fulfilment of or tho law |