Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1937, Page 8

DAILY SHORT STORY IDENTIFYING MARK By Barbara Benedict. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, FURS Cool Fur D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1937. Now at guaranteed 15% Savings— Always dependable quality, authentic styles! Salon, now in lorger quarters—Fifth Floor. THE hew ARITA had been teaching grade five in the Shrieve- slap Public School for four years when she met Magnus Cox. He was stay- ing at th* Seabrook Hotel in Holdman, Me., where Carita was spending two weeks of her vaca- tion. The informal- ity of the place served to acquaint them, and on the third night follow- ing her arrival they attended a barn dance together. as nei- 1 nor strik- ingly handsome, but he had a cheer- ful, friendly way about him that made her like him. That is, she liked 1 he made the deprecatory about school teacher: he felt. She didn't * think of it again until the night be- | fore she was to re- turn to Shrieve- & slap. & “I—I don't want this to end as just a Summer ro- mance,” he said, “can't I see you i after our vacations are over?” 2 “I don’t know.|# [ 'm not sure that | ; I want to.” |& He looked at her | § ruefully. “So that's & it? With you, that's all it was—a Sum- mer romance.” He stared out over the water. T'm sorry. I|; was idiot enough to think 1t was : meaning more to '} you.” “We can write to each other,” she began. But his foot was treading hard ' | on the starter button. remarked conve! i place fairly ree! with romance-starved females.” “Is it your idea that all school| teachers a silly, romance-starved | females?” she asked ‘Why, sure. Why, sure. You get ’em loose from a class room and they turn! off the old dignity and ac' 1 And | most of 'em have that s ved-for-ro- mance look about ‘em. You can spot @ school teacher a mile away.” No breed of the species sily identified.” Carita didn't further the discussion. | She was too angry to do so. It galled her to think that the general opinion | about school teachers was as described } by Mr. Cox. When she had cooled off | a bit, two nigt at he trusted her- | self to defend the cause. They were | Eitting on the beach watching the| moon over the water | “I don’t know why you make such " remarks about school teachers. It's| kind of hard on the breed, as you call | it, for every one to talk about them | that way, isn't it>” X o ok % BIR COX grinned. “Say, this is no time to talk about such a dis- tasteful subject Look at the moon on the water. Isn't it glorious?” “But why,” Carita persisted, st | school teachers be thus identifi “Because,” said Magnus, “90 per | eent of them are misfits. The profes- | sion is a 1 for people who can't find else to do. With | women, it's a means of escape, sparing #em the tion of admit they can’ 0. Wi it salves tk get the tyy Carit eeks flamed in the dark- ness. “Y re being unkind. You! &hould feel sorry for them and try to treat them like human beings.” She decided that Magnus Cox was | not the type of young man she wanted to cultivate. But when he .sked her | | | to go driving with him the next night | 8 teacher for the reasons I gave, be- | % she accepted. After all, she was on va- | cation and Magnus was nice, and what difference did it make, after all? She was careful not to bring up the | gubject of school teachers again. She | didn't want to be reminded of how| h T back to the hotel in ke formal goodnights lay awake half the night, sobbing. She did not see him at breakfast the next morning, and | & when it came time for her to leave he was nowhere around. B She thought it was going ‘- be easy | & to forget. But it wasn’t. There was only a week before school opened and there were many things to do, but be- ing busy didn't help. She wondered if time would eliminate the ache in her heart, and was afraid that it wouldn't. * % ¥ x NEW principal was coming to the school that year, and the commit- tee called a meeting of the teachers to meet him. Carita. engaged in a dis- cussion with prim Miss Guthrie, sev- enth-grade teacher, about lack of discipline among the boys, did not see the new principal when he entered. | She looked up when Committee Chair- | man Haddock called for order—looked | § up and straight into the eyes of Mag- | nus Cox. 3 She sat there, stunned, frightened, | during the entire meeting, conscious that he was watching her. When it was over she rose to g0 She was the first one out of the room, but escape was impossible. A half hour later she | & | received & summons to appear at the new principal's office. “You see,” he explained, “I was ex- cusing myself. I was bitter about my own fate. 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