Summer School Diary, part 2C - 1913

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discipline, making it secondary to anticipated results, were all incentives to healthy progress, and finally that there are at least three (3) essentials that every teacher should bear in mind, as follows:

1st Each teacher should take an inventory of her work and the results she is getting and note how each exercise might be strengthened and improved.

2nd That each teacher should make much special effort to avoid intellectual stagnation by looking up new subject matter bearing directly on some one subject each term, such as familiarzing ones self on the present government of our State, County and City and present this with State history.

Third (3rd) that the greatest success, is the result of much earnest enthusiasm and love for your work and for your children; demanding from them the highest standard of respect by care of personal appearance, attention to personal hehavior, and expression. And not the least important to be able

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to sense their little peculiarities and predominent characteristics and to steadily guide and mould their latent powers for future usefulness.

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"Say" Susie, were you at the Story Telling Club last night? Well they say the sprung a good one, a brand new stunt in story telling. You see it was this way. The girls noised it around that there was going to be some time and even McKlowen and Shannon flowed in. (Talk about the curiosity of woman -- huh!)

They had roll call as usual and the jokes the girls told were rich. Then little Miss Byrne told the biggest story in such a convincing way that every body believed every word of it, and some sigh of relief went up when she got the tiger shut up safely in his cage and the jackal told the Hindu "good bye".

Miss Pollack should be a regular play - writer lady. She knows how to arrange her programs so well, -- has some thing bright and brisk for a curtain raiser and saves the climax 'till the last. Well last night Miss Howe and Miss Hetchell were the climax, and executed the perfectly new stunt

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in story telling. Miss Hetchell cleared the piano and got her ink ready for action and Miss Howe cleared her throat and began; "Hear and attend and listen. O my Best Beloved" -- (You should have seen McKeowen blush.)

The story was the wildest ever. Everybody and everything was wild.

I can't begin to tell the story but Miss Hetchell gave me the illustrations she made, as Miss Howe read, and here they are. --

This is the cave where man lived after he met woman. He had been too wild to even live in a cave beore he met woman. But she was sort of handy at fixing things up around the house and soon the cave was real comfy. Note the wild horse hide hanging tail down.

This is a picture of the cat, that walked by Himself, walking by his wild lone through the wet wild woods and waving his wild tail. All places are alike to him.

These are the wild animals that came through the wet wild

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wood to the cave of man, drawn there by the woman's singing magic, and which became man's faithful helpers.

Well, finally wild cat's curiosity got too much for him so he beat it to the cave by his wild lone, for all places were alike to him. He and woman got into a scrap. He wouldn't give up his freedom. He had that idea of walking alone, imbedded in his bean too firmly. However he and woman did agree that if she should ever say three words in his favor, he could be a really truly house cat and live in the cave.

This next is the picture of Wild Cat making up with Baby.

Then this is where Wild Cat played with a string and made Baby stop crying.

And say, here's where Wild Cat got in his best work -- when he rescued woman from the mouse. Some regular Hero!

Well man raised cane when he saw the cat curled up by the fire and some way even now men don't like to have cats in