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Disobedience By MAXINE WALKER When I was a little girl, I remember, I wore brown slippers with three straps across the in- steps. One Friday night, before our bed time, my parents were in the living room talking and I sat on the floor near Mother. . Harry, my deaf brother, was at school here at that time. I had a pair of scissors in my hand. I wanted to cut the straps off my slippers, to make them look like pumps. I asked Mother to let me. She shook her head and said, “No”, but I did not obey her and cut three straps off one shoe. Suddenly Mother saw me. She was angry and took me to her bed room and punished me. Then Mother left me alone and I cried till I fell asleep. Then next morning I was in the kitchen while Mother was baking a cake for our Sunday din- ner. Near the door I saw my grandmother, who died about nine years ago, pick up the shoe which I had ruined. I hung my head and looked ashamed. I do not know what Mother did with my shoes. I think I wore the shoes, that I had ruined, for every day and Mother got another pair for me for best. I have never forgotten that experience and it sometimes makes me ashamed when I think of it. Goopwin Hati—Where the foundation of our education was laid.
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my teacher. The only thing, I can remember about it, is that I tried to spell and write “raisins” and it was many years before I could spell it correctly. In my third year I remember that we had a new lesson, “What happened?” Mrs. Clodfelter, then a supervising teacher, was trying to teach us the lesson. She dropped and broke a saucer and asked us what happened and I remember that I said, “It broke,’ and that’s how I learned “What happened?” In the fall I was transferred to Main Building. I have had so many happy times here that I can not remember them all, but I have enjoyed my school life and I hope I shall never forget what this school has done to me and what I might have been if I had never been sent to school. Some Queer Ideas I Have Had By CATHERINE MOorRE While I was a little girl at Goodwin Hall, I was very superstitious and had very queer ideas. Carrie Morgan told me that I could get a box at any time I wanted them if I would talk to the wishing tree and it would tell my mother. I didn’t believe her at first so one evening we went out for a while. Carrie told me to go with her to a tulip poplar tree near the girls’ play ground. We went there and she knocked on the trunk of the tree three times and said, “Mother, Mother, are you there? I want a box.” I watched her. The next day she got a box and I thought it was true about the tree. Every day I talked to the tree, but the box never came. Some years later I found out it wasn’t so about the tree. Helen Hege made us believe that if the light flickered, it meant that it was displeased with us for our misbehavior and that we should beg it to forgive us. Every time the light flickered, I was frightened and clasped my hands as if I were worshipping it and said, “Please forgive me.” After a while it stopped flickering and I believed it was pleased with me for being good. One day it rained so we stayed indoors. We were talking about the rain. I don’t know where I got the idea, but I said the rain was God’s tears. He cried when somebody displeased Him. I did something bad in school and it rained that day. I was unhappy all day because I thought God was crying because I was a bad girl. One day we were talking about the angels. I was rather “bossy” when I was little and commanded little girls to obey me. I told them that I should be the head of the angels and that I would wear a blue robe and very large wings. One of the girls wanted to wear a blue robe, too and cried because she thought I had stolen the idea from her. We were like a pair of cats. I slapped her face and she slapped mine, too. That night I prayed to God to let me have a blue robe. The next morning I told the girl that I could wear the blue robe. She cried. But now I have found out that it was only a foolish idea. I can not recollect any more of my childish fancies. A Recollection of Christmas By Evstt READLING When I was a child, I believed firmly in Santa Claus. I believed that he lived in the North and made toys and other things during spring, summer and fall, then carried them to the children’s houses at Christmas time. When I was ten years old, I went to church on Christmas Eve. Santa Claus was always there every year to greet little children. When he patted a little girl who sat beside me, I stared at his mask and I began to realize that he was not a real Santa Claus. When I went home, Daddy sat in front of a fireplace with me on his lap looking into the fire. “Daddy,” I said, “Santa Claus is not real.” He laughed and asked me why I thought so, I told him that if Santa Claus climbed down the chimney, his clothes would be black from the soot. Be- sides this there were many, many people in the United States and Santa Claus couldn’t go to every house at midnight. That’s how I dis- covered that there was no Santa Claus at all. I felt rather sad because I had liked to believe in Santa Claus.
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