Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1879 — Boys or Girls ? [ARTICLE]

Boys or Girls ?

A lady who had much experience in teaching both boys and girls, speaking of the extraordinary obtuseness of a certain pupil, said: In’ a physiology class, this young lady of 15 inquired, with languid surprise : “Is there not a straight passage through the from one ear to the other?” ‘ “ A somewhat natural conclusion,” the teacher commented, dryly, “if she had ever watched the processes of her own mind.” “ Which would you prefer teaching,” asked a visitor, “ boys or girls ? ” “ Boys, infinitely,” was the prompt reply. “No boy, for instance, would ever have asked such a question as that. He would long before have investigated the subject with a lead pencil. Not, probably, in his ovrTi jars,” she added, meditatively, “ but in his younger brother’s.” Columbus, Ohio, has a chicken that is furred instead of feathered.