Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1902 — Up or Down? [ARTICLE]

Up or Down?

Even teachers sometimes have a sense of humor. One to whom that gift has not been denied teaches in an up town school, says the New York Times. Not long ago she was straggling with a class In geography. “What is a compass?” she asked a wide-eyed child, who promptly answered, with the confident air of one who knows: “A compass Is an Interment tor finding directions.” The teacher gasped, but John was not detained, as were the others who answered incorrectly. For, as she smilingly remariced: “Tradition would uphold him In his belief that at certain stages of man's development an interment is necessary to find the direction in which he Is going.”