People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1893 — ONE WOMAN’S DAY. [ARTICLE]

ONE WOMAN’S DAY.

It Is That of a Resident Teacher in One of New York’s Hoarding; School!. Heard in five hours ten recitations, embracing Latin, rhetoric, literature and mathematics, and superintended two drawing classes and writing. Walked twice with the young ladies and sat with them through three study hours. Read aloud to them half an hour, and danced fifteen minutes with them. Ordered meals for two girls who were ill, and visited both. , Made and applied one mustard plaster. Rang for a messenger boy and despatched a package. Showed one girl how to trim her second best hat; another how to mend her gown, and crimped the hair of a third. Spent ten minutes trying to comfort a home-sick child, and ten more sopping up spilled ink. Interviewed three anxious mammas concerning three abnormally bright daughters, but all peculiarly constituted and requiring careful treatment. In the hour devoted to rest and relaxation shouted “Come in!” sixteen times to sixteen girls who wanted anything and everything, from the solving of a problem to knowing the hour and borrowing the scissors. Went down three flights of stairs to texpress an opinion on the “hang” of the new parlor curtains. Talked with two teachers in search of situations, and evidently envious of so desirable a one. Made one bed and saw that sixteen others were made. * Wrote to a dry-goods firm, ordering samples for a country friend. Wrote a brisk and cheerful letter home. Said “yes” and “no” at the right time, and smiled when it was expected. Dressed and undressed twice, and incidentally ate two and one-half meals. Saw that sixteen girls were duly bandaged and plastered and watered and in bed with the lights out at 9:30 p. m. Corrected nine compositions. Hauled out a folding bed and dropped in.—N. Y. World.