Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1890 — HOW THE INFANTS SHOOT. [ARTICLE]

HOW THE INFANTS SHOOT.

A Few Intellectual Gem* Gleaned From the Publlo School*. A charming young public school teacher, with a very lively set of young charges, is responsible for the following tales, which appeared in the Washington Post. She told the youngsters to write compositions on “Good Manners.” This wad the most unique, by an eight-year-old. “Good manners is keeping your fresh mouth out of other people’s business.” The teacher drew a picture on the blackboard of a boy wading in the water holding a crab in the net Little Jules Gamier wrote: ‘ ‘The crab we see on the board is not a devil orab, but a salt water crab.” Is the dime novel disappearing from the hands of innocerflceP It looks that way. The teacher read her pupils a short Indian story. They listened with open-mouthed interest “ —‘and the tomahawk flew by the boy’s head and buried itself in a tree.’ Now, children, how many of you know what a tomahawk isP” No response. “Come, any boy who knows what a tomahawk is may hold up his hand.” One timid hand went up. “Well, Johnny, what is a tomahawk?” “A tomahawk, Miss Minnie, is some kind of a bird, I believe!” “Why do vou think it is a bird?” • “Because it is a hawk, and you said it flew by the boy’s head.” Innocence forever, and down with the “Boy Scout of Dead Man’s Gulch!”