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j don't know."
1 The words were spoken sullenly
9 and the little youngster stood facins
his teacher with a stolid, blank
expression on his dirty face.
"Can you tell me what any of those woris
mean?' the bewildered teacher inquired
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again.
"I don't know."
"But. Willie, you must have learned somethins
about this picture, and what is printed
undt r the picture Haven't you learned anything?"
"I don't know."
"Well, tell me the names of the letters tn
this word.
"T-R-E-E "
"That is very good. Now. what does it
spell ?"
"I don't know "
It was plain to be seen by the countenance
of the little fellow that he was one
of I'ni-le Sam's newcomers. There was a
d-ep. stolid Russian ca'U to his broad. Wank
face.
"Hut certainly. Willie" (the teacher hid
lii knamed him that because she could not
well pronounce his own name in a hurry,
and besides, his real name sound'-d remotelv
like a perversion of William") c;>rtainiv
vim can talk to me a little, can't
you?"
SIk* had ask** 1 that self-same question
dozens of times. ami re -eived every time
the same answer thai .sir* received this
time:
"I don't know."
I am sorry, but I yon will have to
do your number work." concluded the
t*- r it if in the outstretched hand a
sheet of pa;>??r and a pencil.
Number work' was t'.l that i.er little Russian
pupil eoald *1 and that did not re?juire
t;.at h ? . ise any knowledge of
^ii>;; m i-. ; in- wurKt'a naru am '
*teadi.\ at his task, covering the white
paper with smeared figures and correct I
problems in addition and -subtraction. It
yinecdotea
WellKno1
Country House lipping.
Mrs. Potter I'alraer. while entertaining
the National Civic Federation in Chicago, j
told a dtory about country house tipping.
"You know," she said "how huge these
tips are. how many servants must be remembered.
how, indeed. me people are
obliged to refuse to visit large country
houses because they can't afford tile expense.
"Well, there is a story in this Unc about
the famous Jonas Hanway.
"As Hanway was eaving the country
"bouse of a duke a string of servants waited
to waylay him. I
" Sir,' said one, 'your overcoat.'
"And Hanway put >n the overcoat and
gave the man a sovereign. _ j
" 'Your umbrella. s saw anoiner.
"And taking the umbrella, ilaa. ajr SUI* :
rendered another sovereign.
" 'Tour hat. sir.'
"Another sovereign.
" 'Sir. your gloves."
" 'Why, friend.' says Han way. *you may t
keep the gloves. They are not worth a
sovereign."
^ A. Revised Maxim.
".''mn R. Keene advisod m< last month," !
said a millionaire. "to have nothing to do I
with a certain speculation.
"Mr. Keene told me a number of things I '
hadn't known about the career of the pro- |
moter I had been consulting. I
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Judge of him. You know the revised m^i
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was much more accurate work than any t
other pupil in the room could do. not ex- t
eluding the brilliant little reader of the s
cLass. f
Ten minutes later Willie was rushing i
through the door out into the school-Jiouse \
yard.
"Give me that ball!" he yelled at the top: e
of his lungs. "I can throw it further than i
you. I can hit that tree." . j n
His English was perfect, with the excep- j I
tion of a slight foreign accent, and during ' n
the entire fifteen-minute recess he talked t
as glibly as any of his playmates. "Teacher" ; n
stood by an open window, looking on, anil j
as the throng of youngsters came trooping t
Into the building at the sound of the bell o
she sighed, and prepared to try once more h
to teach Willie to pronounce "T-R-E-E" in n
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All this occurred not so very long ago in t;
one of Washington's public schools, and the i a
teacher's experience is often paral'eied in I t
other schools. It is but one of the many j o
and varied things which go to make up thj ! a
life of a teacher who lias to direct the de- ! g
velopment of thft minds of the thousands of h
little ones jof all s-jrts an 1 all conditions. I
who flock to the public schools. p
It is a merry little army, and care-free, c
on the whole, although it is not without its
own little tragedies that loom big before its e
small gaze and shut out the whole future ,
for the lime. The teachcrs as a class are I a
hopeful, even as the one into whose room ! s
a peek has been takwn. and who firmly be- j
lieves, and rightly, no doubt, that some day t
Willie w.ll pronounce ' tre?" in the school a
room as well as he does unconsciously on <j
the pla>sround. o
That boys and jrirls the gcnt-ral run of a
them?are fond of school is said by many c
who claim to know to be not true, in spite ii
of assert! vis to the contrary. Perhaps, say ti
t V, , nci-unno avopv nhllH
i. i' .-?r j>- t \ t j imu nuu.u i
feel a lr*s?s if fie should be made to stop l>
t Conceding ?
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floats." " b
Juvenile Ambition. a
! Mrs. M. G. Black of Oardin.-r, Ore.. w>ho
i has re. cived one of the last awards of the ?
I Carnegie liero fund for her bravery In sav,
ing three young girls from drowning, was
| talking about bravery the other day.
I "Do I think that brave*), heroism, can c
I be cultivated? Yes." she said. "In a n
, sense I do. Heroism is unselfishness car- jj
| rted to its highest point, and children can
' certainly be trained to be unselfish. 0
1 "There fe> only one way to teach them
, that, though, and that is the way of lcind- a
I ness. Brat and bully children, and I hey
won't grow up unselfish, but the opposite."
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She smiled.
"I knew a little boy." she said. "Once. "
HI an r/ sifr party, i ?ii*u a ioug conversation
wim h:m. ?
" -An<l.' I said. as I helped him decorate !'
a pink egg. 'what are you going to do "
when you grow up?'
"l,ooking up from the egg with a frown. *
he answered: .
' 'Whip papa." " _ fj
A Curious Ad.
Tiie Jute Ambrose I.. Thomas of Chicago
u*ed to collect curious adverttnements. and
oue Uuit he valued l.ighly was a Chinese n
advertisement of India ink.
i'his curious screed, translated, Is as follows:
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foing to school every day when he knows
ill the others are going; but it is not the
ichool he likes when he is small; It is the
un he has at recess times, or the fondness
le has for his teacher, or somebody else
vho goes to school, too.
It is hard to get the healthy youngster of
ither sex to go to bed in the evening, and
f there are any lessons to learn for the
text day it is hard to get them studied,
f the parents are not pretty strict and do
lot insist on "early to bed" it is also nard
o get the youngster out of bed In the
Horning.
Once up. however, and dressed for school,
lie excitemeht of tlie new day takes hold
f even the dullest imaginations of ohildiood
and it is usually with no little eageress
that breakfast is swallowed, book3
Tabbed and the journey to the school
ouse begun.
Girls and "teachers' pets" like to get into
he class room as early as possible and wait
round for the doors to open, but not so
he average healthy boy. He is eager to get
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s he nears his destination a peculiar averion
to the hall? of learning takes hold of,
im and he walks more and more slowly,
rsually he takes up with numerous comanions
and they will loiter just arouud the
orner until the last moment.
They are always in call of the bell, r.owver,
and when they hear it they never tail
l> reach the door on time, but Just on time
nd no sooner. An indii.erent air is asumed
and they stroll to their desks and sit
own u.s if they do not care a rap for anyliing
in the world, and least of all school
nd the school teacher. It then becomes the
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r say something that will catch them un- 1
warts and pierce their feigned ini lffernce,
interesting them in their surround:ga
in spite trt themselves. Many is the
?acher who is a master of this gentle art.
No matter how interested girls and boys
efore theto, and no matter how much
:treme) very good ink, fine, fine! Ancient
lop. great-grandfather. grandfather,
tiier and self make this ink. Fine and
;rd. Very hard. Picked with care.'sected
with attention.
"I sell very good ink: prime cost Is very,
his irk is heavy; so is go.U. The eye of
le dragon glitters and dazzles; so does
lis ink. No one makes like it. Others
I'lfl malfP inlr mulfo ir fV*r tho aalra on
militating base coin, and cheat, while I
lake it only for a name.
"Plenty of mandarins know my ink?my
imily never cheated?they have always
oi ne it good name.
"1 make ink for the "Son of Heaven" and
11 the mandarins In the empire. As the
aar of the tiger extends to every place, so
oes the fame of the "dragon's jewel,' the
ik of Tae-sliiug."
ad ac rui iu
Lillian Russell was dining at an Atlantic
ity hotel. She had run down in the
lorning from Philadelphia in her sevcntyorse-p>)wer
cat", breaking most of the recrds
by the way.
During dinner Miss Russell told a story
hout a handsome actor.
"A letter of his," she said, "was put in
notht-r man's box at a club one evening
y mistake. The other man opened the
tter, saw that it was a very an\rry note
rom h tailor demanding instant payment
f a bill long overdue, and in dismay sealed
: up a;;ain neatly and put It in the box of
r> ugMiui uwnt'i.
"Well, the rightful owner entered The
mukiriR room that night with the letter it:
is hand. He ran it through, glanced
Dund complacently, gavte his mustache a
rirl. and murmured:
' 'Silly little girl.' "
Unprofitable Callers.
Admiral Sigsbee, in *? recent after-diner
speech, said of the naval virtue of
bedience:
"Yet even obedience may be carried too
IT.
"A lawyer, about to go to court, said to
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become In the lessons which Teacher puts
they evince that interest by lively questions
and uplifted hands. It Is idle to
believe that anything really Interests them
more than the thought of the approaching
flfteen-mtnute recess. It is this thought
tnat nerves mem ior tne oaiue ana Keeps
their good nature uppermost.
It is with a whoop thaf the boys gain
the outer air and with a secret feeling
of glee that the girls feel themselves free
to talk to each other and giggle without m
interruption for fifteen minutes.
There is at least one thing in all the
world that is more fun than recess?for
the boys, at least?and that is a trouble
with Teacher?that is to say, trouble of
somebody else with Teacher. To be the
onlooker when a really bad hoy Is being
pacified is so great a delight that the intervals
between such occurrences are filled
with secret and unexpressed longings
for another performance. Laughter, giggles
and a secret envy of the oppressed on
the part of the boys and a secret admira- '
tion for him on the part of those of the '
opposite sex occupy the time of the spectators
during such administration of dtseinline.
And It always "hurts" Teacher more than
It does the punished one. At least, so
she says. That absolutely inexplicable fact
staggers many a youthful intellect and
leaves It with a great wonder and awe
of Teacher as a being of an entirely different
sphere. In some unaccountable way
Teacher wins her point very often by saying
things like that.
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Another pleasure of the school boy, rarely
shared by the school girl, is the time-honored
InstitutioB of "playing hooky." This <
Is vastly more fun than watching the punishment
of a fellow popil in school.
One boy, as he makes his way^oward the
school house, books under his arms, conceives
the Idea that the day would be a
fine one to "play hoo^y." No particular
reason has swayed his mind; It is just his I
mood. But It would be tame to do it all 1
alone, and, therefore, a partner in crime <
must be round. The would-be rascal tliinks (
over the list of his acquaintances in the i
class and selects the most daring spirits. <
The first of these whom he happens to
see he approaches and tells of his idea.
Such an idea usually takes like wildfire,
and the accomplice does not have to be i
won over with clever and pureuasive argu- :
ments. (
The first move is to make a wide detour t
in walking toward the school house, t
Watches, or. If the boys have no such t
treasures', clocks in stores on the way are 1
examined every few minutes, and finally 1
the two come close to the school house c
about ten minutes after 9 o'clock, and are ?
late! e
Late! Terrible, unforgivable thing! Un- j
his office boy, 'If any one calls, say I'll be n
back at J2.' Then he went to court. On E"
his return lie asked the boy, 'Any one
called?* si
" 'Yes. sir,' the lad answered. 'Five beg- P
gars. They'll lcok In again at 12, sir."
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A Dog Xiover.
D. M. Delmas at a dinner in New York y
said of a legal topic he disliked: g
"You see, I have had so much of it. It P
is like ihe case of the old Frenchman who a
called at a house that was overrun with J,
dogs.
"As soon as the old man entered the t
drawing room the dogs enveloped him. c
They leaped on his lap. they licked his ?
nose and lips, they muddied his white n
waistcoat. v
"His manner flowed that he was none P
too well pleased, and his hostess said ""re- a
proachfully: *
" 'Ah. count, it is easy to see that you e
don't like dogs.'
" 'Not like dogs inifeed!' the count ex- P
claimed. 'Why, I ate over forty of them
during the siege of Paris.' " n
The Golf Caddy.
''Tih<-> OYil f P'.idH V " cfll/1 a oAiithArn Innr_
nalist. as he chewed a sprig of mint, "is a
new type. This lad is independent, witty,
altogether without reverence. P
"On John D. Rockefeller's visit to Bon
Air he-tried a little golf one afternoon in
the neighborhood of Augusta. p
"On a rather difficult shot Mr. Roefce- a
feller struck too low with his iron, an<?. aa j;
the dirt flew he said to his caddy:
" "What have I hit?"
"The boy answered with a harsh laugh:
*' 'Gcorgta.' boss.' "
The Invisible ?roup. n
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"I called on George Grey Barnard in
Paris last month." said a Philadelphian.
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der no circumstances would it do to so Indoors
and receive the reprimands of teacher.
Much better would it be to stay awaj
altogether. There can be no doubt at all
about that.
So, filled to overflowing with righteoui
impulses to make reparation for the wrong
they have done, they decide to stay oul
of 'school that day. First they find some
convenient place to hide their tell-tale
books. They know a nice little candy store
whose proprietor understands the troubles
of the school boy and will gladly keep
their books until they come after them
igain.
Then, unincumbered, they set forth like
two knights of old to conquer the universe
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xiiu triijvy IIIC wuuuciiui pleasure una tjt:itement
of stolen adventure.
And they do enjoy it. It is not hard,
:laim the advocates for the school boy.
to find that any man looks upon the days
when he played "hooky" as the most joyful
of his life. Freedom, unrestraint, adrenture,
mystery?everything combines to
make it ideal. It is only the trouble of
explaining afterward?the next day?that
takes away from the bliss of those few
nours. Teacher has such a strange way
>f finding out about these things and par?nts
also are supernaturaily gifted in this
"espect. This is certainly one of the greatest
of problems.
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The monotony of the school day, which
it the best always seems long to the
,-oungster, is sometimes broken by a lesson
jn the outside. When the class is being
aught arithmetic it sometimes happens
hat teacher takes everybody out into the
ichool yard to measure the side of the
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leight of a bit of shrubbery, in order to
onvey the idea of a practical side, a real
iide. to all the dryness of the school lessons.
Everybody who goes out always enoys
the lesson immensely, but It is the
ew capitol at Harrisburg. a deservedly
jccessful man.
"While we were looking over various
ketches in the studio a young French
alnter entered.
" 'Have you heard the story about Gareau?"
the newcomer cried.
"We hadn't heard It. Therefore the
oung man told It to us.
"Garpeau, it seems, was a sculptor of
reat talent and great eccentricity. A rich
atron of the arts commissioned him to do
life-size group representing Polyphemus,
he Cyclops, crushing the youth Acis ulier
a rock.
"This powerful patron was not to be ofended.
Therefore Garpeau accepted the
ommlssion. But he could make neither
ead nor tall of it. It did not appeal to
iim. It was a subject In which he could
ot take the slightest Interest. And every
reek or so the rich patron asked him reroachfully
how his group was getting on,
nd Garpeau could only shake his head. It
pas embarrassing.
"Well, one day Garpeau sent for the pa
rvir.
" "There is your group.' he said, and he
olnted to a great, rough lump of clay in
he corner of the studio?a mere formless
lass of clay, ne more.
" 'My group?" rried the patron. 'Where?'
" "There,1 said Garpeau, impatiently,
rhere, to be sure. Don't you see the
ock?"
" 'But where Is the youth Acis?"
" 'Undef the rook, of course.' said Gareau.
Crushed. Invisible.'
" 'But the Cyclops Polyphemus? Where
s her
""Gone off about his business.' said Gareau.
"You don't suppose he'd be hanging
round, do you, after committing a crime
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Pirst Downward Step.
A photographer wu urging Charles Kroh?an
to nit for hia photograph for the Kaa?r
number of a popular weekly: hut this,
s usual. Mr. Frohman refused to do.
The photographer, a fluent persuasive
hap, advanced reason after re.ison why
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bad boy who often has the most fun oui i
- of It, because it Is not possible for teacher j
to watch him as closely as when he is in ,
I the school room. Teacher has a way or I
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i often gives a very important task to the
bad boy, such as the handling of the big
tape measure, and the Importance of his
duty not infrequently subdues his spirit.
Still more enjoyable is a journey to some
place that is farther away than the school
i yard.
> "If you will be real quiet and work hard
i today," teacher sometimes says, "we will
all go to the museum tomorrow and study
! the Indians in the glass cases." ?
This usually has the desired effect and
seldom It is that anybody Is guilty of any
indiscretion which might Jeopardize his
chances of making one of the party.
Teacher sometimes wishes she could hold
out this promise to a class more often
than the school curriculum permits.
The end of all ills is nearly always synonymous
in the mind of the school boy
and girl with the end of school, whether it
be the end of the day or the end of the
session.
"School is over!" is a cry that is unequaled
in its significance, and it has a
sound that stirs the heart of every man and
woman who ever attended any kind of a
sphnnl The nell-mell rush throueh the d-oor
with the knowledge that one does not have
to go back any more that day, or. better
still, any more for months?why. it is "typical
of the entrance into the land of everhistIng
rest. It is hope materiallied and bliss
within one's grasp.
When school is over you do what you
really want to and not what the teacher
would have you do. You may like to please
the. teacher, hut you never for u minute
can make yourself actually believe that you
want to do what she says. What you want
to do is to play ball, or "klck-the-stick,"
or "run-a-tnile," or something else just as
fine. If you are a girl ycu want to take
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j the .other should break his rule and sil.
"Those reasons sound well." Mr. Froh- t
| man said, "but behind them I seem to see
: an ulterior and selfish motive lurking. It 1
is like the harrowing story that the lawyer i
came home and told his wife.
" Sad case in court today." ihe began. I
" 'What was It?' the lady iisked. I
" 'Case of shoplifting. Beautiful, r>?flned 1
woman, educated and wealthy, caught i
stealing things in shops like a common
thief. I
"The Judge was greatly moved. He said: <
I " 'Madam, how did you begin this sort of i
I thing?'
1" "Alas, sir." she answered, weeping. 'I ]
began by picking my. husband'? pockets at |
nicht after he was in bed atleei). That I
was the first step, and after it my fall was
easy.' "
A Slight Error.
A newspaper correspondent was talking '
about Father Bernard Vaugiian of T^on- 3
don. 1
"Though Father Vauglian's congrcgation."
he said, "tB one of the most fashionable
in the world, the good priest is al- |
ways on the side at the poor.
"He calls the poor God's pet children, and J
I once heard him in an address tell the
Hcli tlmt tihey were responsible lor me
poor's faults?the drinking and so on?say- s
1ng that the poverty of the poor wasn't the
result of their drinking, but their drinking r
i was the result of their poverty. t
j, "He declared that the rich, in their in- t
different and careless cruelty toward the
poor, reminded him of a certain surgeon. t
"This surgeon, lecturing a class of stu- r
dents, said: s
' 1 was *o excited at my first operation i
that I made a mistake.'
" 'A serious one. airr said a student.
" "Oh. -no." the surgeon answered. 'I only .
took off the wrong leg.' " !j
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District Attorney Jerome of New York e
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walks and talk about your new dress and
the new dresses of the other girls of your
acquaintance?and about the boys. This
last subject of conversation suggests another
pleasure, with Its corresponding tragedy.
of school life. This is note-passing.
When you have learned to write and have
overcome your fear of looking and saying
things to the little girl or boy whom you
have always Uked better than the rest, you
enter upon an entirely new and uni?aral- <
leled field of enjoyment.
You snatch odd moments to write carefully
on a scrap of paper some commonplace
thought, the biggest pile of books you
can build protecting you meanwhile from
the watchful eye of teacher. Then you wait
stealthily for a chance to pass It to her or
to him. If the one who Is to receive It sits
behind, in front, or reside you, H Is a comparatively
easy matter; but If further
away It is an extremely dangerous task.
Somehow or other the fun does not lie In
the sneaking of the note, as In other similar
pleasures, but in seeing It actually In >
the hands of the one for whom It was written
and causing a little smile of satisfaction
on the reader's face, which you know Is a ,
sign that as soon as possible you will re
ceive a reply.
Often you wait around outside of the
school to catch a glimpse of the one, who
may be coming out later than you. Indeed,
you often see to It that the one does come
out later than you by hurrying out yourself.
But you never speak outside of school, except
in the most formal way.
Some day you may muster up enough
courage to hesitatingly walk up to the girl.
If you are a boy, and tell her you are going
home the same way she is. You admit It is
rather strange and you don't know how you
came to be going at the same time, but you ,
suppose you must walk along together and
make the beat of it.
But when you get as far as that you are
on the high road lo being something more
than a mere school boy.
was talking at a dinner about the power of
peech.
"Speech, talk." he said. "If it is fast and
luent and earnest enough, will achieve mli icles.
turn black white, do anything.
"A woman went to buy an Kaster bonnet
the other day. The salesman, getting his
Longiie slightly twisted, brought out a
liandsome bonnet, and said rapidly and ex- 4
itedly:
' "A great bargain, madam. T*ie last one
left. They have all gone ofT like hot
?akes. And no wonder. Formerly $l(i,
now -offered for $15.
" "I'll take It,' the woman, much Impressed,
said hastily."
Conried'a Compliment.
An actor told the other day a graceful
itory about Helnrich Conned.
At a reception, he said, tne loss or
he various senses was discussed, and a
roung woman, a grand ojK-ra singer of conii..erable
>>eauty, aaid to Mr. Conried:
" 'Which would you rather be, deaf or
jllndT*
"Smiling and bowing gallantly, the great
nanager answered:
" I>-af, madam, when 1 am looking at
rou, and blind when I bear you sing.' "
Plant Trees to Protect Ships.
hunt Rom <'oiTenpondenee Marramrnto Bee.
State Forester Q. B. T^ull has been exlerlmentlng
with the planting of eucalypus
trees around the hills bark of the
laroor 01 run i>ruKK. in nruuociao i-ouniy,
10 as to afford a wind br^ak for the ships
hat Miter the harbor. The trees grow very
apidly and In the two months have grown
ieveral Inches. Hundreds of trees will now
>e planted. ?
The big lumber companies have decided
o plant thousands of trees on the vast
fnarn from which the lumber ha.* been cut.
rhe planting of trees to protect ships Is de Idedly
novel and is an experiment that
i-ill be watched with considerable Interest
\^ery where.