Show S S I IS I GIVE THEM TIIE A REST nEST There Thero Is a l vcr very capable young oung man manIn manIn In iii town vtha a a perfectly char charming system of ot telescoping fractions and anda a method In hi mathematics which reduces reduces reduces re re- re- re duces the of or sciences s' s to the sweet semblance of ot a summer dream He has arranged for a c class ass of or pupils at the High school building and editors editors editors' edi edi- tors tors' children can go 10 fl free e. e So that this isn't a knock But nut there seems something wrong in ramming fractions tractions Into a child in vacation time For ten long months they are arc as busy as a broncho buster and never have time to get Iet more than one foot on the ground gmund at a time They are aro yanked out of or bed when sleep Is sweeter than thai anything else under the sun and more necessary than fire in an engine room The first firs thought Impressed on their working senses Is an unfinished problem or a river hopelessly lost Jost As they fling themselves into clothes they are hogging hog flog sing ging jaded brains with efforts at dem dem- 1 J or groaning In fear feal that they hey will not pass pas All the tho use the they have lave for a conscience from September to o June Is to suffer because the they are aro capable of or intellectual sprinting In the class with ten-seconds ten children The They ride fast trains In the school schoolrooms schoolrooms schoolrooms rooms and faster ones at recess They think stud study talk tall study eat ent stud study dream study till study till their brains must look ook liI like c a piece of at tripe with a chunk of ot differential calculus In every hole lole Teachers hurry hurl them Friends hurry hurr them Father Fathel hurries hUt them Mother other gets them read ready but hasn't the he strength to rise 1180 up and amI rebel for forthe forthe the he sako sake of or her little ones Recitation Recitations is s dreaded Examinations havo have all the of ot an Indian uprising and ind commencement Is IR one Incessant reign of or terror from Crom February till harvest harest har- har vest est time And AmI there Isn't a n minute lit ht u all that double hundred lays days when ho tho child can live can grow can de- de velo elop p. p Midsummer schools for fot little people are arc as savage as salt on the stripes that hat a o cat leaves We lNe dont don't mean to say a word against tho the young oung man who Is giving giving- these excellent excellent excel- excel lent lessons for fot he Is doubtless a gentleman and amI mercilessly compe- compe tent But DuL the child needs ten months of vacation and two months of ot slow sov school chool a whole lot more mOIe than it needs study tudy in the summer time |