Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1917 — Spring is Coming. [ARTICLE]

Spring is Coming.

The lads from the lower grades are playing mabrles and the high school boys are playing hooky. Seventeen virile fellows of the high school could not withstand nature’s tempting invitation to be out under the blue dome of heaven instead of the blue atmosphere of the school room and they spent Wednesday afternoon enjoying themselves viewing the beautiful scenery of this city. The game of hooky was played as innocently as the games of marbles by the under grade pupils, but the high school authorities felt that the gambol with nature should be extended until Monday, during which time the parents might bring the boys closer to nature by introducing them to the wood pile and mother’s dinner dishes. This act on the part of the young fellows does not indicate a tendency toward total depravity and we feel that the pedagogues in charge do not so consider* it. Order vour calling cards aera.