Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1903 — HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY. [ARTICLE]

HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY.

Irishman Thought Man’s Millinery Bills Must Be Large. A public school principal of New York City, who, in the summer time, takes parties of East Side children Into the country, tells an amusing story in connection with a class of girls to whom he gave a day’s outing. They were all dressed in their best, and the principal, who told the experience to a reporter for the New York Times, said that when he had boarded the car and had gazed down the Hue of the girls’ united hat-brims, he felt as if he bad got into the hanging gardens of Babylon. He soon noticed that the other passengers were casting glances in his direction, and since then he has wondered how many of them received the same Impression from the party as did an Irishman who occupied the seat behind his. , After they had been spinning along for a while the Irishman leaned forward and touched the principal’s shoulder. “Sure, ’tis a foine big fam’ly ye have,” he observed. “Oh, they are not mine,” the principal said. “Ah, ye needn’t be ashamed of ’em, man!” he said. “Sure, they’re foine, healthy girls, ivery wan of them.” “But they don’t belong to me,” repeated the principal, laughing. The Irishman leaned back in his seat, clearly unconvinced. He surveyed the clouds of ribbons, lace and flowers which floated above the bobbing heads of the eight girls, and pretty soon he rose to get off. But on the step he “Surer ye must foind it comes high in mill’n’ry,” said he.