Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1912 — Easlly Answered. [ARTICLE]

Easlly Answered.

“Those kids I teach arn’t a bit slow,” observed a school teacher yesterday. “In fact, I’m afsatd they read the papers. The other day I proposed the following problem to my arithmetic class: “‘A rich man dies and leaves SL--000,000. One-fifth is to go to his wife, one-sixth to his son, one-seventh to his daughter, one-eighth to his brother and the rest to foreign missions. What does each get?’ "'A lawyer* said the llttlest boy In the class.’’—Case and Comment