Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1916 — NOTWITHSTANDING [ARTICLE]

NOTWITHSTANDING

By way of enlarging the children’s vocabulary the village schoolteacher is in the habit of giving them a certain word and asking them to form a sentence in which that word occurs. Tbe other day she gave the class the word “notwithstanding.". There was a pause and then a bright faced youngster held up his hand. -----—----- "Well, what is your sentence, Tommy?" asked the teacher. ' ’. . "Father wore his trousers out, but inotwlt Kat Miding."