The Schartz-Metterklume Method: In this story, Mrs. Caball, the "grand
dame" of a society family, mistakes Lady Carlotta for the governess she
has come to meet at the train station. The Lady does nothing to correct
her error. On being asked where her luggage is, she responds that
"Someone lost it." One of Lady Carlotta's very excellent rules was, "the
absent are always to blame." Lady Carlotta throws aside her own plans
and becomes a very interesting governess, not at all what the family
expected. She tells them that she will teach history on the
"Schartz-Metterklume Method," to make children understand history by
"acting it out themselves." When her first lesson involves the abduction
of the Sabine women, it leads to some very amusing results - at least
for Lady Carlotta. Tobermory: In "Tobermory," Cornelius Appin claims to
have launched on the world an amazing discovery during a society dinner
party. He has invented a means for instructing animals in the art of
human speech, and the family cat, old Tobermory, proved to be his first
successful pupil. However, when the professor demonstrates his success
with Tobermory the results have consequences far beyond anything he
expected.
