Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1897 — REFLEOTED HER PROFESSION. [ARTICLE]

REFLEOTED HER PROFESSION.

Her Dreea and Hair Betrayed that She Wat a Bchoolma’am. “How unconsciously men and womet take on the atmosphere of their surroundings and avocations,” remarked a man recently to a New York Advertiser reporter. “I can recall an Illustration of that fact in an experience I had some years ago. I had been so long *c customed to the association of women school teachers that I am rarely mistaken when I come In contact with one. A prmlneut woman teacher from a north 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 was sure I would be able to Identify her. I went through the train, which was crowded with pas sengers. I looked around and soon found the teacher. She was perfectly Ist finished when I came up and soldi “Is this Vies Blank?” “ ‘Yea, that Is my namey «he replied, "but how did you know me?’ “I did not explain, bnt It was easy enough. At first glance I saw her hair was short, that she wore eye-glasses and hod on a plain-looking sort of gray cioth drees. Any doubts I might have bad were soon reUoved os 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 dosed it. I knew I could not be mistaken, and results showed I correctly diagnosed the profession of that woman.”