Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1919 — JUST WHAT DID SHE MEAN? [ARTICLE]

JUST WHAT DID SHE MEAN?

Young Teacher’s Reply Might Have Been Merely a Statement of Plain Fact, or— The young primary teacher had been continually annoyed by pobby’smother ever since he had entered school. Nothing suited her. At first It was the hours, then the arrangement of Bobby’s seat, and finally, after a score of complaints about everything imaginable, she began to come to school to criticize the and books used. “Now, these readers are not nearly so interesting as the ones we used to use,” she said. “Couldn’t you get some of those old books and use them to supplement these?” she asked. "I don’t know I could find any.’ r Tiesltated the little teacher. “But .you will find the stories so much’ more Interesting that you will be paid for your effort in bunting them,” insisted the woman. “How I did love those stories! There was one about a little red hen. It —” “I don’t believe that would interest my children now,” Interrupted the young teacher. “You see, the hen grew up.”—lndianapolis News.