SOME MESSAGES RECEIVED BY TEACHERS IN BROOKLYN PUBLIC SCHOOLS THE fact that the "Slab City" parents object to clay-modeling in the schools is illustrated in the following note sent to a teacher in one of the Tenth Ward schools: Miss John kem home yesterday wid his clothes covered wid mud. He said you put him to work mixing clay when he ought to be learning to read an' write. Me man carries th' hod, an' God knows I hev enuf trouble wid his clothes in th' wash widout scraping John's coat. If he comes home like this agin I'll send him back ter yez to wash his clothes. MRS. O'R Here is one from a Brownsville mother who objects to physical culture: Miss Brown: You must stop teach my Lizzie fisical torture she needs yet readin' an' figors mit sums more as that, if I want her to do jumpin' I kin make her jump. MRS. CANAVOWSKY. The number of parents who object to the temperance plank in the educational platform is greater than the number of objectors to any other class of study in Williamsburg. Here is a copy of a note sent to a teacher in the Stagg Street school: Miss - My boy tells me that when J trink beer der overcoat vrom my stummack gets to thick. Please be so kind and don't intervere in my family afairs. MR. CHRIS Here is a sample on the same subject sent to a teacher in the Maujer Street school: Dear Teacher: You should mine your own bizniss an' not tell Jake he should not trink bier, so long he lif he trinks the bier an' he trinks it yen wen bill rains is ded, if you interfer some more I go on the bored of edcation. W. S. In this school the teachers are often compelled to listen to long arguments on the excise question, and the parents who call around to argue become greatly excited when told that the children are taught not to taste alcoholic liquors. One little boy told his teacher that his mother had given him orders to get up and leave the classroom during the hour for discussing the alcohol question. The teacher told the boy to ask his mother to call around at the schoolhouse. She wrote this note instead: Teacher: John says you want to see me. Bizness I have a bier saloon and nine children. is good in morning an' aft'noon. How can I come? The Pickleville parents as a rule never omit the "obliging" end of a note, as will be seen in the following, sent to a teacher of the Wall Street School: Dear Teacher: Pleas excus Fritz for staying home he had der meesells to oblige his father. J. B. And here is another of the obliging kind: Teacher: Please excuse Henny for not comeing in school as he died from the car runover on Tuesday. By doing so you will greatly oblige his loving mother. Here is one sent to the Brownsville school: Dear Miss Baker: Please excuse Rachae. for being away those two days her grandmother died to oblige her mother. MRS. RENSKI. The child mentioned in the following note was neither German nor Irish. But he is back in school after a battle with the doctors: Miss - Frank could not come these three weeks because he had the amonia and information of the bowels. MRS. SMITH. The notes sent are sometimes written on scented paper, and as a rule these are misspelled. Here is a scented-paper sample: Teacher: You must excuse my girl for not coming to school, she was sick and lade in a common dose state for tree days. MRS. W. In this same school a teacher received the following: Miss Please let Willie home at 2 o'clock. I take him out for a little pleasure to see his grandfather's grave. MRS. R. Still another mother wrote the following: Please be so kind an' knock hell out of Sol when he gives too much lip to oblige his mother. THE TROUT'S APPEAL Don't visit the commonplace Winnepesauke, BILL NYE A FATAL THIRST FROM the London Lancet we learn tha "many years ago a case was recorded by Doctor Otto, of Copenhagen, in which 495 needles passed through the skin of a hysterical girl, who had probably swallowed them during a hysterical paroxysm, but these all emerged from the regions below the diaphragm, and were collected in groups, which gave rise to inflammatory swellings of some size. One of these contained 100 needles. Quite recently Doctor Bigger described before the Society of Surgery of Dublin a case in which more than 300 needles were removed from the body of a woman. is very remarkable in how few cases the needles were the cause of death, and how slight an interference with function their presence and movement cause." It It would seem, from the cases on record, that needles in the system rather assist in the digestion and promote longevity. For instance, we will suppose that the hysterical girl above alluded to, with 495 needles in her stomach, should absorb the midsummer cucumber. Think how interesting those needles would make it for the great colic promoter! |