Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1912 — Diamond Cut Diamond. [ARTICLE]

Diamond Cut Diamond.

“I learned something new the other day,” said the father of a boy who Is prone to playing hookey from school. “The letter carrier makes his firat delivery about the time we are all at breakfast. I noticed that when the bell rang my boy would sometimes hurry down before any one else could get ahead of him, although he waa naturally so lazy that usually you couldn’t get him to go at all. “This set me thinking. I soon found out that he ran downstairs to the let-ter-box only when the previous day had been a fine one. I followed him and caught him in the act of destroying a postal card his teacher had sent to me, stating that the boy had been absent from school. “It was a neat little trick, hut I managed to checkmate him all right by having the teaeher send the card to my place of business downtown.”