Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — A Teacher in the Making. [ARTICLE]

A Teacher in the Making.

She was a popular young normal student, who had been to a party the night before, and as a consequence, was “not prepared” in the geography class. The woman instructor, true to her method of drawing upon the general knowledge of a student rather than to permit a failure, after eliciting two or three inconsequential “stabs” from her fair but jaded disciple, asked for the products of China. The victim brightened. “Tea,” she asserted, preparing to sit down. “Yes, and what else?” encouraged the instructor. The young woman smiled with sweet hopelessness. “Now you can mention others, I am sure. Just think about it.” “Tea,” drawled the flute-like voice of the pretty girl, “and,” puckering her forehead with an intellectual tour de force, “and laundry work.” — Youth’s Companion.