AN INVOLUNTARY LESSONS

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 392, 12 November 1903, Page 3

AN INVOLUNTARY LESSONS

oi was tevu ph«ew»», w*amemm } - 9m »» «k « n«R(Kßtft« cfl ■ .:.! ~.potto*, Thiß«a. ;.:^ : ~;-| ■JOfc |ir!i treated prweipe! and § teaefeera with an cxag gsrated jg that thoy moat certainly showed to no " other mortal in the world,"'writae Mary I*ui*e Graham, of "My Board-ing-School for Girls," in Ladies'Horne Jouraai. "Thay could not grasp the Wea that they could talk to me as they would to any woman of my'age at their homo*. I don't qaito know that I ought to tell what was the opening wadga, the beginning of the new order of things. I hare new regretted it ; In spite of the fact that it waarather •"'" •fibeldng, and that I was lame for days afterward. We were all assembled the schoolroom for prayers. I sai* down inadvertently on an optical do* taeioa of a chair, and as I reached the floor I exclaimed involuntarily at the top of my lungs: 'The devil!' I wish to remark parenthetically that; I am not in the habit of swearing, that I think it a most unladylike custom, and I would advise my girls againiTt it if X . ever dared approach the subject, la this instance my swearing waff probably a case of atavism, my grandfather being a most ungodly old spoolmen of a Puritan, But, to return te that morning in the schoolroom, there was a silence which, lasted about twq seconds; then one girl giggled. Well, it ended with two cases of hysterics, and we didn't have any prayers that morning. But the episode proved that 1 was human, and so it was the %ssia« uing of better things." ''■ x '