Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1911 — PUPIL TALLER THAN TEACHER [ARTICLE]

PUPIL TALLER THAN TEACHER

Arrested by Truant Officer Flfteen-Year-Old Miss Declares She Could Spank Instructor. New York.—Rather than face the teasing schoolmates who are two feet or more shorter than she, fifteen-year-old Molly Vogel braved the anger of her parents, defied the power of th* truant officer and stayed away from school. She was arraigned in the Gate* avenue court. Brooklyn, before Magistrate O'Reilly on complaint of Mary Brennan, attending officer. When Mrs. Vogel was asked by the magistrate if her daughter was in court she replied: “Ye*, she I* back there.” O'Reilly, looking toward th* rear of the room, *aw two girl* seated. One seemed to be about twelve years old. the other fully twenty. The magistrate expected to see

the little one rise at the call of "Molly Vogel!" He gasped when the bigger one stepped out in the aisle. Molly would have no difficulty in passing as an adult. Besides being tall she Is decidedly plump. "Judge, if you had to stay in a classroom and you the biggest girl In th* school, what would you do?” pleaded Molly. O’Reilly shook his head, as if to say he had never contemplated facing such a situation personally. "How can I learn when I know I’m a foot taller than my teacher and g half foot taller than the principal?” wailed Molly. "One of my teachers, q man. is so small I could spank him. And anyway, judge, I thought I’d been to school for the 120 days I had to go. But they say I must go for thirty-fiv* days more.” Magistrate O’Reilly shook hl* head sadly, but decided the best way would be for th* girl to go to school for th* remaining days of compulsory attetf dance.