Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1895 — REFLATED HER PROFESSION. [ARTICLE]

REFLATED HER PROFESSION.

Her Dtsm end Hair Betrayed that Bhe Was a School ma'am. “How uncooadousij men and women take on the atmosphere of their surroundings and avocations.” remarked a man recently to a New York Advertiser reporter. “I ean recall an illustration of that fact In an experience I had some years ago. I had been so long accustomed to the association of women school teachers that I am rarely mistaken when I come in contact with one. A prmlnent woman teacher from a northern city was expected at an educational meeting. I had never seen her, but received a telegram asking me to meet her at the train. I was sure I would be able to Identify her. I went through the train, which was crowded with passengers. I looked around and soon found the teacher. She was perfectly astonished when I came up and said: “Is this Miss Blank?” “ ‘Yea, that Is my name,’ she replied, ‘but how did you know me? 1 “I did not explain, but it was easy enough. At first glance I saw her hair was short, that she wore eye-glasses and had on a plain-looking sort of gray cloth dress. Any doubts I might have had were soon relieved as I noticed hanging from her watch fob a small globe, being a miniature of the earth. Another earmark was a small hand satchel that snapped loudly when she closed it I knew I could not be mistaken, and results showed I correctly diagnosed the profession of that woman.”