Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — Was Too Honest. [ARTICLE]

Was Too Honest.

Honesty Is .one of the leading. prlnciples tauglit in the public schools, and the teachers begin early to 1 oppress the value of this trait in character on the minds of the P u * pils. A gouth Chicago teacher had a -pupil who gave her much sorrow by his unfortunate habit of fibbing on every possible occasion. One day she kept hjm after school and gave him a serious “talking to.” “dust look at the life of George Washington,” shesaid, “he couldn’t tell a lie.” “Huh,” remarked the unregenerate youth, “what was the matter with him?”