Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1915 — Awful Misfortune. [ARTICLE]

Awful Misfortune.

Children of the right sort take their school work seriously. Jennie, aged fourteen, is a second-year high school student. The other evening she appeared at the family dinner table evidently not in the best of good spirits. Pressed for a reason, she made this explanation: “Oh, I muffed it in English this afternoon. We had to give oral themes and I had studied mine out so carefully that I wasn’t a bit nervous at first. But by and by something distracted my attention for a moment, and I said something that spoiled the unity, the coherence and the liter* *7 value of the whole thins *