Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — Telling Children's Ages. [ARTICLE]

Telling Children's Ages.

Boston'-peci rl to New York -un. A special committee of the Legislature tc-day inspected a large cottonmill at Salem, which is manned almos t exclusively by ,French Canadians, mostly children. All sorts of expedients are resorted to by the parents to obtain the necessary certificates for children under the legal age oi fourteen years. The test now appliedan each case is an examination of the teeth. A dentist in i , i . - ■ ... . x •, the Salem School Beard quickly detects the age of every applicant for a certificate by the child’s teeth. Unless the proper molars are there, due at eleven years, no certificate is granted. , ——r Pray, not annoy With burniug talcs of love or hate; One thing aloue my FOTit yyguUTnow— George, tell me, is my hat on straight? —Washington Critic. T ’- r '" ' ~r: —— ' r "