[Sidenote: Sweetmeats]
Not many weeks later Miss Shannon had occasion to treat the same
situation again. Following better judgment, she said to the offender,
“Would you please let me have your sweetmeats to keep until you need
them?” There was some hesitation, but her calm assurance of good will
won.
“Now you can come to me after school is out and I’ll give you what you
leave with me. But please don’t bring your sweet things into the room.
Eat them up before school begins or save them for lunch.”
She took the occasion to say to all:
“Our papas and mammas keep plenty to eat at home, so that we need not
eat food during school hours. I want you to help each pupil in the room
to have a profitable time. We can’t do it if someone is eating. So we
won’t bring anything to eat during study time. If anybody forgets, he is
to leave his eatables with me until it seems best to give them back to
him.”