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THE VISITOR
BY W. R. ROSÈ
The Httle teacher was tired
and disconraged. The school
room seemed unusually stuffy,
the pnpils unusually irritating.
The little teacher wished she
could go away somewhere and
forget all these tiresome duties.
She thought of the pleasant
places where other teachers went
N during vacation time, places
where the little teacher did not
because there were claims
upon her time and her money
that she could not disregard.
Things didn'tseem well distrib
uted in this world.
The little teacher looked through
the nearest window, although
there was nothing to see save
roofs and chimneys, and when
she looked back again there was
a misty curtain before her eyes.
Silly, said the little teacher to
herself, and winked back the
tears and frowned at tbe restless
boys and girls.
Was school teaching a high
mission, she wondered, and was
she the one to carry it out ?
The little teacher had asked
herself this question before—
many times. She bad tried so
hard to throw herself into the
work, to interest the scholars,
to hold their friendship. But it
seemed to her that they quite
forget her as soon as
over the threshhold of tbe room.
The little teacher was sensitve
—no doubt of it—foolishly sensi
tive, she told herself.
Sometimes she would overhear
fragments of conversation that
could not be regarded as inten
tionally unkind, and yet the
words hurt her.
There is my old teacher, she
had once overheard a young
woman say in a shrill whisper
that the rumble of the street car
could not drown. She must
have been teaching for ages.
The little teacher wasn't es
pecially sensitive regarding her
age. There were ways of find
ing itont, if curious people were
so disposed, but she was quite
sure she didn't look her years—
and that was a consolation. Yet
such remarks as she overheard
in the car—and there were other
remarks, many of them that were
quite as thoughtless—rankled in
her gentle heart If her schol
ars would remember her with
kindly thoughts and make them
selves known to her when they
met in after years, it wonld be a
great satisfaction. But of all
the boys and girls who bad gone
from her room in her twenty
years' experience the number
tbat seemed to know her after
go
ward was very, very small, and
she really couldn't recall that
one of that little regiment of
-knowledge seekers had ever
mentioned any special debt of
gratitude be or she owed tbe
teacher—and yet she had labored
so hard with some of them.
The little teacher took herself
resolutely by the throat, so to
speak.
What do you expect ? she de
manded of herself. It's tbe way
of the world. Yon can't change
It. The selfishness that's bonnd
np in the heart of a child is ex
panded in the man and woman.
Yon do your doty, draw your
pay—and that's the end of it.
Don't expect sentiment. It's oat
of place. You're just a little cog
in the big wheel. Grind away.
For a moment she had quite
forgotten her charges. Now the
vigorous flourishing of a short
arm drew her attention.
Teacher, said the stoat boy who
owned the arm, somebody iss by
the door mit knockings. Shall I
make it open ?
Tbe little teacher nodded.
Tr es, Fritzie. Go quietly.
The stout boy clattered to the
door with every eye in the room
following him. - w ,
The little teacher sighed. She
hoped it wasn't a complaining
parent She didn't feel in a hu
mor for a wordy combat.
The stoat boy opened the door,
looked ont into the ball, stepped
across the threshold and closed
the door behind him.
•- Teacher, said a thin-faced girl
in the front row, if it's Eidora's
mother can we laugh f
Certainly not, said tbe little
teacher sharply. Attend to your
* work. It is very impolite to
h at visitors.
»e tnfn-faced girl was, ready
I SO funny, teacher—
Eldora wouldn't like it
hi laugh. ? •
phisticated reasoning
icher made no answer
,hat mdoàent thé door
and tbe stout boy re
flowed by a lady,
tmçher. said
lent.
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as not of
it
air. m
a shureness she was by de right
to
so
it
If you please, teacher, my mother
is cornin' to school to see you
'cause somebody stuck a thistle
burr in my hair and ic.tooked
in mos' an hour to comb it out—an'
I know th' boy who done it, but
won't never, never tell on him.
How the children laughed and
even the little teacher smiled—
a and then quickly held up her
all hand.
Th' lady ain't no snitcher, the
stout boy admiringly announced,
Pritzie, the little teacher sharp
ly admonished.
The lady fluttered back to the
platform.
You must pardon my exuber
ance, she said, but I'm so happy
to find myself in the old room.
I'm behaving in a way that is
very destructive to discipline,
but I'm sure my friends here—
my new comrades—will not take
advantage of it. Will you, dears?
The stout boy arose with sur
prising quickness.
Surely not, lady, he cried.
Then he swung around and look
ed over the school. She is a fine
lady, he said in an almost threat
ening tone, an' no snitcher !
The lady beamed on the stoat
boy.
 charming compliment, she
said. Then she looked back at
room.
The lady came forward, a lady
I of 30, perhaps, a handsome lady
and very becomingly—and yet
plainly—gowned.
She smiled upon the little
teacher and put out her hand.
I am quite sure now, she said.
Then she turned to look for the
stout boy, but be had slipped in
to his seat.
Ah, there he is, she merrily
cried. Thank you, she added.
Then she turned to the little
teacher. Isn't he a funny dear ?
Tbe little teacher had risen
and was looking inquiringly at
the visitor.
Won't you be seated, she said,
and gave her a chair that stood
beside the desk.
Tbe visitor murmured her
thanks as she looked about the
room.
I am trying to make it seem fa
miliar, she said,
back at the teacher. I don't dare
to 6tareatyou, she added. And
it isn't necessary—because you
have changed very little.
Tbe teacher smiled at this.
Then you have taught in this
building ?
No, no, she answered.
The thin-faeed girl in the front
row looked up eagerly.
Please, teacher, she hurriedly
suggested, maybe th' lady sub
sti tooted.
The lady's laugh was pleasant
to hear.
No, little dear, she said, I neith
er taught nor substituted. 1
was a scholar here and I sat in
the third chair in the first row—
right here. She suddenly rose
and ran lightly to the seat she
had pointed out. Will yon let
me sit in it again, my dear ? she
asked the wondering girl before
her. Thank you. She slipped
into the seat and sat up demurely
—aud all the children laughed.
I have only to shut my eyes,
aud then open them suddenly
aud the scene all comes back to
ma She made a whimsical face.
She looked
of
of
to
the teacher. Won't you let me
have my way here for just a little
while? I'll promise not to be
naughty—I learned to be good
right here in this room. Will il
interfere too much with the
studies if I tell the scholars
little story ?
A story ! a story ! cried the
eager listeners.
The teacher looked at her
watch.
In twenty minutes we have
recess, she smilingly said. Will
twenty minutes be enough ?
Oh, yes, cried the lady, I'm
sure it will be quite enough, she
suddenly laughed. You don't
remember me, do you ?
No, replied the little teacher.
If you were my pupil it was a
long time ago.
Twenty years ago,dear teacher
said thq lady softly. And now
for my little story.
She stepped to the front.
Please, lady is it a really an'
trne story ?
Yes, replied the lady smiling
brightly. It is really true. You
wouldn't like to have it untrue,
wonldgyon?
The thin-faced girl looked
pretty fine, she said. : -
But this is a true one and-I
hope youll like it, said the lady
still «milling. It is a story abon t
his V#*jr room and about your
i I was a
a
doubtful.
Those other kinds are also
here
it
girl like you girls and sat iu that
chair—or one much like it—I
am afraid I was a lazy girl at
times—and the times were many.
I was lazy about my studies and
lazy about my music.
The stout boy nodded under
standingly.
We have de same kind now, he
oracularly remarked.
I am afraid so, laughed the
lady. The teacher did her best
to keep me up in my studies, but
she could not praise me because
Î did nothing to deserve praise.
I would have liked a little praise
now and then, but I was too lazy
to earn it.
The eager eyes of the thin
faced girl twinkled responsively.
Eldora Brown is like, it, too,
she said. It is a wonder some
times that she will pass, ain't it,
teacher?
The little teacher held up her
hand.
I'm afraid it was a wonder that
I passed, said the lady. No
doubt I was saved by my teacher
—as several of you are sure to be.
But now lam coming to some
thing that happened—something
that made a very great difference
to me. It was just a little song—
aeong that we sang in those days,
in the old room here. I sang it
with the class one day and after
ward the teacher—this teacher,
yours and mine—said to me, Mar
garet, I want you to stay a little
while after school—I have some
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thing to say to you. So I stayed
and when we were quite alone
she said, Now sing the sailor
song for me. I wasn't afraid of
her, not a bit. So I sang the
little song twenty years ago—
now I'm going to sing it again.
She went to the piano and let her
fingers ripple along the keys.
Then she sang the simple song.
She sang it in a low voice that
was full of bubbling tenderness,
a glad voice that shook with deep
longing, then thrilled with mild
exultation. And the room was
very still when she let the last
trembling throb die away.
Look at teacher, whispered
the thin-faced girl. She is mak
ing a cry.
The lady faced them again.
And when I had finished the
little song, she went on with the
story, the teacher said, Margaret,
you have a beautiful voice and
you might be a fine singer if you
would only try. That was the
first time the teacher had praised
me. I liked it very much. I
will practice, I said. I will try
to be a fine singer—and you will
tell me when I do well. So she
kissed me and sent me home and
I told my mother that I wanted
to be a fine singer. And my
mother was glad. She taught
me all she could and hired a
master for me and oftentimes 1
would stay after school and sing
for our teacher here—and when
she praised me, as she often did,
I was very happy. So I per
severed and tried hard and all
tbe time our teacher helped me
with her kindly words. She
turned suddenly. Do you re
member this? she asked the little
teacher.
I remember, the little teacher
softly answered.
The lady smilingly nodded.
And then my mother took me
to New York. I said good by to
my teacher—I was very sorry to
go—and my last words were, 1
will be a fine singer. Then came
years of hard study abroad—
across the wide ocean —and I sang
better and better and one night—
it was at the great opera house
in Paris—they called me back
and what do you think I sang?
The little school song—and as I
sang it I saw this room again and
my teacher smiling down at me.
And once I sang it where the
German emperor listened and
once in the great theatre at Milan
where the Italian king said
to me, I like your English song
very much. And every time I
sang it I thought of the old room
and the little teacher. You like
to know this, don't you? You
like to know how much the little
song helped me and how much
the good teacher helped me.
And you will like to know, too,
that I have a little boy who is
now with his father in New York,
allittle boy who loves the school
song, and who can sing it very
sweetly. She paused aud looked
around with glistening eyes. Do
you like the story ?
Yes, yes, they cried.
It is of a fine kind, said the
thin-faced girl. It is even So
good as stories of the kind what
are not of the truenegs. It made
the _ teacher to cry and sooner
again to laugh.
The stout boy waved his arm.
Please, lady, he said, haf you
no folk songs to sing?
The lady laughed and went to
the piano.
She sang a plaintive German
song and then an italian ballad,
and then she sang the school
song again—and her exquisite
voice charmed the restless chil
dren into wondering silence.
Then she came forward quickly
Dear teacher, she said, it is
Time for me to say goodby to
and thq. dear old room. ,
yon for all your goodness and
helpfulness. She caught the
little teacher's hands and kissed
her. Goodby-good by, dears—
goodby old room !
And she was gone.
But she had left a card in the
teacher's hand,
looked down at it.
7t bore tbe name of one of the
world's famous singers.
The Httle teacher looked at it
through a mist of tears.
Then she put it to
in
you
Bless
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According to a report of the Depart
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