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Show HAD TO DO WITHOUT BEER. Mother of Unfortunate Schoolboys Makes Indignant Protest. As tho district In which tho school was situated was almost exclusively German, tho Btrong accent with which tho visitor refused to be seated was no surprtau to her hostess. She hod come, so sho said, "to put n stop mlt dem half day classes." They were enough, so It appeared, to drive any housekeeper crazy, Herman's Her-man's classes wero dismissed at 12:30, while lludolf's class una Just entering on Us tlrst session at tho same time. Herein was the cause of all tho trouble. "If wo buys our dinner beer beforo ha,f pas' twolfo, poor Herman's beer Is all flat an' Btnlo yet when ho gits homo; and It wo waits for Herman, then Rtutlo gets no boor at nit alretty. Ho haf to go off early on tho school to be In tlmo. So ho cats him a dry dinner." At this point tho IrMKnatlon of tho defrauded Radio's mother overcamo her, and sho pausr 1 for breath. Tho principal, not slow to avail herself of tho chnnco to bo heard, tactfully suggested Hint tho difficulty bo overcome by giving both boys something moro nourishing, If less Inspiring, In-spiring, In tho way of liquid refreshment. refresh-ment. This tho Irato parent haughtily haugh-tily refused to do, and the. relations between Iho principal and tho "visiting "visit-ing lady" wero strained to, tho breaking break-ing point by tho Indignant refusal of tho former to grant "discharges" to Herman and lludolf, thereby enabling them to nttend a school whoso classos wero so arranged that tho family might drink Its beer as a unit. Philadelphia Phila-delphia Ledger. |