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Show TROUBLES OF SMALL BOYS Teachers' Proper Desire to Inculcate Cleanliness Has Not Always Smooth Sailing. In the model school in the 1 A--which is next to the kindergarten, as every one knows who hasn't forgotten every day there is appointed a tidy angel. The one whose shoes are the shiniest, hair the smoothest and hands most Immaculate plays the role. He walks around, inspects every child and touches the ones that are "fit," and they immediately stand. All second class angels those "who haven't been "touched" are, of course, in disgrace. Sometimes the "angel" isn't as angelic as his name implies. Should he want to "get square" with one of the boys he doesn't "touch," teacher' has to come to the rescue to save some hair pulling. The poor boys have their own troubles, too. One lad who comes from a shiftless home had never been an "angel." Once teacher spied him back of the room spitting on and rubbing rub-bing bis shoes with tis cap. That day he was "tidy angel." Going through her son's suit one day a mother found a pocket and handkerchief soaking. Suspecting his drinking cup had been put to misuse, a trouncing was in store. The explanation: School being be-ing so far away, little boy had to take lunch. He wanted to be "touched." He found a place to wash up, and In lieu of a towel used his hanky. Little lad's troubled look vanished when he got a hug instead of the hickory stick. New York Press. |