Show A citizens views editor CL CLIPPER IrrER last week the schools got his finger on a key that was sadly out of chord think of the language 0 he probably meant well but lid did realize at tile the time how it would grate on the ears of taxpayers who send their children to school to to be told they must esmust not be offended if their children present are sent home teachers are in to see to the following points when pupils enter school in tile the morning athe the childs liand ii face neck aud ears must be hair neatly combed we take liberty to state that the fine comb should be used oftener ofte ncr f inger finger nails neatly trimmed and cleaned teeth br brushed clothes clean and not ragged oh 01 mya my I 1 set back in my easy chair and wonder did the boy dream he was a full quorum of tile the legislative assembly or lid did lie he ii was tile the pope pone of rome while abile I 1 agree that it would be a beasant combination to find most P pleasant a people e arll enough ot 0 provide good clothes not ragged dp and a people who had ambition enough to always have their persons neat and clean but the school room is it any better than the breakfast table in the mellen kichen how do you think it would sound to ae tell 11 one of our ladies she was not clean if our principal lad had been auckly enough to have been the head bead of a family for about four years and had an angel of a wife as clean as a pin in whom he could seo see not a single f fault then even then if lie he were to be sent out on a mission to teach cleanliness lie would find at leal some peers even in his own neighborhood bo in families where they did not even brush their teeth and clean their nails each morning he be would find points of his loving wife would do 10 well to copy the subject is a very delicate one and an essay on it might be in order the principal should labor hard to inculcate correct ideas on every pr principle in ciple but he must use more discretion when he becomes dictatorial and says you must A FRIEND |