When we got back from Wyoming, as usual, I went to teaching at Central School in the third grade.  I had started out teaching in the second grade and then proceeded to the third grade.  I want to tell you one thing about how I proceeded from grade to grade.  I didn't know why.  I didn't ask.  It didn't make any difference to me.  The next year when they put me in the forth grade, the principle told me why they had changed me from the different classes.  

 

There was a boy in the class whose name was John Seely who wouldn't behave.  The teachers couldn't make him behave so they kept him up in the office but I could make him behave and I didn't ever send him to the office so that's why they wanted to keep him in my class.  Now that is what the principal told me.  One time I went over to his house and talked to his mother.  I really was kind of proud of myself to think that I could get him to behave.  I really got along with kids.  I didn't spank them and I didn't holler at them.  But I just watched them and if they weren't doing right, I just told them.  So they would just mind me.

 

Moving back to my student days, I finished the eighth grade and then  attended Tonkawa Preparatory School for one year.  Then I taught three years in the country schools.  Then they made a law in Oklahoma that nobody could teach unless they were a graduate of high school.  So I quit teaching and went to high school for three years.  My sister Orma went with me and we both graduated after three years there.  After I graduated from High school,  I started teaching in the Enid schools and continued this for six years.  Then I married Linus Davidson on June 8, 1920. 

 

During my younger days, my mother had a cancer in her breast.  When she had it removed,the doctor performed the operation on the kitchen table.   Of course we all went outside but we girls watched in at the window.  She just got along fine.  That seems odd now.  It wasn't unusual at that time to have an operation at home.