Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1926, Page 33

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. TH[‘RSIi\Y. AUGUST 12, 1928. hy 33 played the fascinating game of school. | At the close of school she took part | condition that she be very, very Bood. | read the entire page co{recgy. with | with high grades. There was nothing and not talk or bother the children or | much expression, the teacher was|to do but to promote her to the sec- 0 teacher in any way at all. amazed at what she thought was an in the comvent’s annual play, bounc- She was alyllber{y to tiptoe out of | unusual exhibition of parrotlike | °d grade, although, as her teacher | ing about the stage, gaudily gmumedi the room when she pleased. As the | memory. Eliztbeth, at the teacher's| 5ald, it was “most unusual” ince|as a butterfly, but looking more‘ weeks went on, the first grade teacher | amused suggestion, turned to another | she had never had a day's formal in- | like a fat bumble D e noticed that Elizabeth was staying | page, which she found easily, and [struction in her life. Elizabeth was| Babyhood was deflnl!el);’ pind ey longer and longer, but paid no atten- | again read without a mistake. jubilant when she told me the news amazing progress l;‘ “hw q ofl{ hee!: 'tion to the child. since she gave no| Then the teacher took a public|in her own way. She had passed her | tures in new cities, lay ahea 3 trouble. school reader from her desk, a book | ‘Zaminations”; she would no longer | to mark the fifth Then one day the teacher, on pass.| which Elizabeth had never seen be- | have to sit silent while other children ing Louise's desk, saw that the “vis- | fore, and asked her to “read” from it. The Story of Elizabeth BY HER MOTHER, ANNE AUSTIN. {Cobyright. 1026, In_United States and Great Britain, by North” American N aper All AN mghts re rve V.—Elizabeth's First Triumph. | N _March, 1917. when 1 was in| Waco on a week-end visit with | my mother, I was introduced, by | a newspaper friend of my former | hushand, to the new editor-owner of the Waco Morning News. He was | looking for a woman who could com- | bine the work of s v editor nnd‘ feature reporter, and, some un fathomable reason. as soon as he met me he was convinced that I could fill | the position | He made me an yirgent offer, and within a_ week 1 had’resigned my’ posi- 1ion in Moody, after having found a teacher to take my place for the unex- nired term. and had gone to work on the very paper on which my husband ad risen from proofreader to city ~ditor | 1 was frightened, for 1_had had no | newspaper experience. My sense of utter fallure and unworthiness in los- | ing my husband and giving up the| struggle to finish my college course, on which my heart had been so stub- bornly set, had combined to give me one of those well known inferiority | complexes. Fortunately for my ego, I was glven an assignment my very first day on the paper mitted me to do a bit of the kind of | which T later learned was ntense pride and delight my slory was put on the first page, and that very night a nom de plume was | settled upon for me. The editor chose the name of Anne Austin because | Austin was the name of the princl- pal business street, and Anne com- | yieted a simple, alliterative combina- tion, Gains New Confidence. | Somehow, the taking of a new name, & new job and 3 tance—for wasn't my enough to n spired to ma 1 felt as if T had been born again; Villie Reamy Benson, with all and tragedies and struggles, . and that Anne Austin could do anything in the world she wanted to, win all the good things of life for herself and her chiid So I went into my new work with a which per- | lary for the first only 15 dollars. but T had carned to make one dollar do the work of two, so we lived decently even from the.very first Soon T was ralsed to $17 4 week, then shortly afterwards to 20, My name and « little half-column picture of my self appeared in th> paper over a fea ture story editor of wEan o w a_ serial novel which ran in the paper for 14 months. Elizabeth was then three. She. of course. shared all my small triumphs, although. sinea T had to work most of the day and half of the night, she saw | less did manage to spend together, how ever, were sweeter, more Joyous, more companionable, then had eve known before. Her unfailing unde: 1 and mind should share all my clever new ds with me. New Friends Meet Elizabeth. She listened round-eyed to the tales | and less of me. The hours we | | | YeastandIron would a picture, not writing from left teacher laughed. then placed her hand | lov over Elizabeth's and guided her pen- iting baby” was trying to copy a sen: | Elizabeth did so—any page requested, tence from the board—'See me run.” | with only an occasional mistake in She was drawing the letters, as she | pronouncing a new word. Examinations in “number work to right, in a continuous line. The | and Fpell‘!‘ng——«r&l jand_writte —fol- n wed them all cil, held tightly gripped in her left hand, across the slate, borrowed from Louise. That was Elizabeth's first and only lesson in writing, for the teacher paid no more attention to her. ¢ Then, in May.*exciting talk of ex- aminations was flying about in the schoolyard. Elizabeth contracted the fever of excitement. What were these “zaminations” that every child| was thrilling over? Why couldn't she have them, too? hey must be great fun! On_the first day of ‘‘zaminations” Elizabeth took her place beside Lou- ise, and stuck there. There was an oral examination in reading. When! it came Louise's time to read, Eliza- | beth, who had kept her eves glued to Louise’s hook, rose, smoothed her dress importantly, as she had seen the other little girls do, then an- nounced, in her high, baby volice: The Story of the L\ule} 4 Elizabeth, you promised | | vou'd be good if T let you stay,” the teacher admonished. *'Sit down, like | a good baby, and let Louise read.” “But I want to have ‘zaminations. too. Final) “‘humor” herN\she was ‘When the 4-year-old R Anne Austin, the mother, when - lizabeth established her record intel- incredulous, amused, and shaken witn joy and pride. My baby—in the sec- ond grade. Baby Educates Herself. Then I was told how it happened. Elizabeth was not at any time a pupil in the first grade, but she had a little chum, Louise, whose last name I have forgotten, who sat alone at a double desk in the high first grade room. 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None of my new friends—all people of intelligence and tact—treat- ed her as if she were a baby. I treat- ed her as if she were my most inti mate friend, a real person, and my s for ex- 1 was sent out of town ssiznment. For safe-keep anfonship with thildren, zabeth was placed in the Sacred Academy at Waco, though we atholics. She was not en pupil, for she was too rding to the head of the and T certainly had no de- push” he which crime I had been repeatedly warned by mothers of less brililant children. | returned to Waco the last of May, sust as the convent school was closing for the Summer. And I was met with the astounding news that Elizabeth 1e to our little apart- | ound the | h's perpet- | nd furious conversation, ! 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