Show HAD THE CHILDREN GUESSING chicago youngsters floundered badly when asked to describe one of the simplest flowers the pimpernel Is a simple sweet little flower that grows widely but it would seem practically unknown to the public school children ot of chicago this at least was the conclusion forced upon a certain teacher after giving out a line from Tenny sons maud and asking for its written definition the line was As the pimpernel dozed on the lea and here are some of the answers received rec received elved in addition to those denning defining tue file pimpernel as a frog a a small deer a dragon fly and a small shrub like a pear the word pimpernel calls up to my mind the image of a pampered cur he la Is a worthless brute iwho who spends most of his time dozing in the sunshine the pip pimpernel pernel seems to me a small animal resemy resembling ling an eel athas it has short rounded ears and bright beadlike eyes an ag I 1 imagine it the pimpernel is lying halt half asleep on the grass near the store of a lake ready to slip into the water at the slightest sound A pimpernel seems to me a tramp or gypsy he lies an on the bank in the 5 sun un with an old battered hat drawn 1 over ver his face 1 I do not know what hat the word means but it instantly suggests tome to me a small lizard covered with pimples or warts the image flashed upon to my Y mind as soon as theordias spoken and is still vivid and distinct although I 1 never heard the word before I 1 scein seem always to have known it and to attach this meaning to it I 1 am absurdly confident that this to Is the true meaning all of 0 which would seem to prove that the juvenile imagination given free rein can make strange work of 0 almost any given thought or idea |