Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1910 — The Price of Meat. [ARTICLE]

The Price of Meat.

The young mother, who excused herself for placing her 5-year-old child In school on the ground that she had already exhausted her resources on her progressive offspring, should sympathize deeply with the distracted instructors who are endeavoring to hold their own with the practical children of the day. The teacher In a city school had laid aside the book and was drawing on her imagination for examples in fractions. In the first place, this teacher, just out of the normal college, had never in her Hfe gone marketing. And she was absorbed In getting numbers capable of the divisions she had In mind. '• “Suppose,” she suggested, confidently, “the butcher asks you 42 cents a pound for beef, at that price what would three and three-sevenths pounds come to?” The scrawny girl to whom this was propounded, who had traveled Innumerable times the distance between her home and the grocer’s and butcher’s, giggled a little—not without contempt. J “It wouldn’t come to our flat,” she stated, decidedly. “Ma’d send me back good ’n’ lively if I didn’t know better’n to pay that much for beef myself.”