Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — REFLEOTED HER PROFESSION. [ARTICLE]

REFLEOTED HER PROFESSION.

Bar Drees sold Bair Betrayed the* She Was ® Bchoolma’am. “How unotwdoudly men and women take on the Mtaaoepb «n of their aurrtnmdlng® and avocation*," remarked a man recently to a New York Advertiser reporter. “I can recall an illustration of that faot to an experience I had some years ago. I had been eo long a» cuatomed to the aaaodatlon of women echool teachers that I am rarely mistaken when I come in contact with one. A prmlnent woman teacher from a nortlj era city was expected at an educations meeting. I had never seen her, but received a telegram asking me to meet her at the train. I waa sure I would be able to Identify her. I went through the train, which was crowded with p&» sang era I looked around and Boon found the teacher. She was perfectly Mtontshed when I came up and said; “la this Miss Blank V “ ‘Yea, that is my namag ®he replied, "but how did yon know me?’ “I did hot explain, but it waa easy enough. At first glance I eaw her hair was short, that she wore eye-glasses and had on a plain-looking sort of gray moth drees. Any doubts I might have bad 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."