Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1908 — Respect Due the Primary Teacher. [ARTICLE]

Respect Due the Primary Teacher.

"Lift your hat reverently when you pass the teacher of the primary school,” Bays an exchange. She takes the bantling fresh from the home nest, full of pouts and passions and the ungqvernable little tot whore own mother honestly admits that she sent him to get rid of him. True. That she succeeds so well in founding his future career is marvelous. That she succeeds no better is largely owing to the fact that when he comes home sniveling and with a ' tingling sensation and relates his version of it, mamma grabs her wraps and without waiting to see if her bonnet is on straight, rushes up to the school to have a row wTh the teacher. For thia some men who might have been In the White House are now in the penitentiary. Yes. .off with’your hat, man, when you meet the teacher of the primary school. The hand that wields the paddle rules the world.