Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1909 — Troubles Enough at Home. [ARTICLE]

Troubles Enough at Home.

When instruction in clay modeling was introduced into the public schools of Baltimore there was a decided objection made thereto, says an instructor in that city, who gives the following as an illustration of the way the innovation was received by certain parents: “Miss Jones:—John come home yisterday with his clothes covered with mud. He said you put him to work mixing clay, when he ought to be learning to read and write. My husband carries the hod, and heavens knows I have enough trouble with his clothes in the wash without scraping John’s coat. If he comes home like this again, I’ll send him back to you to wash his clothes. Yours truly, Mrs. O’Callahan.”