Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1917 — COULD HARDLY BE EXPECTED. [ARTICLE]

COULD HARDLY BE EXPECTED.

The teacher was trying to show the children how it was that our forbears were so ignorant of other countries. She talked for an hour about the laqkjof knowledge of navigation, the smallness of Ships and the fear of the unknown. Then she noticed that Jimmy was not attending. “Why was it that we know so little about other countries 400 years nao, Jimmy ?” she said, springing the question upon* him. “Please, miss,** said Jimmy, without a moment’s hlsitation, “because we weren’t.