Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1896 — A Useful Institution. [ARTICLE]

A Useful Institution.

“I suppose,” said the school teacher’s*acqualntance, “that you are sorry to see vacation coming to a close.” “No,” was the reply. “I think ft has lasted long enough to serve Its most important purpose.” “You mean that the pupils and their Instructors linve had a chance to recuperate;” “No; that is an unimportant incident. What I mean Is that vacations give.parents a chaiice to realize that their children are not the angels they always assume them to be when they get Into trouble at school.”