ADA THE TEACHER
father, turned back, not wanting to enter the house. She said to her father, "But, daddy, is she going: to be my teacher? She is so little." Ada, with that perpetual smile on her lips, prf'tended not to have heard the lacrimose protests of the dissilusioned girl, succeeded in attracting the latter to her, and with the help of the father, Felipa in an attitude of resignation remained. She consoled herself with the thought that her stay there would only be for a few days. But the days lengthened into weeks, and the weeks into months. The reviews became more and more interesting under the easy methods employed by an intell'igent friend rather than a teacher and Felipa, instead of going away, brought to the school her two otner sisters, Rosario and Pilar, so that they might study together. Then, the students of Ada increased in number to such an extent as to be beyond the capacity of her school to hold. There must have been ten or twelve interns, besides the pupils who went there only during class hours. They hailed from the provinces of Bulacan, Laguna, Batangas and Tayabas. Like the liberal and modern school headed by Margarita Lopez, the home of Ada, which was at the same time a school, was a place which could be visited by young men who were known more for their talent and culture than for their social position or for their wealth. In this way, the social contact which, at the present time, is, to many of our young women, only a means through which they can hold an interminable series of dances and re63