Show WHY TOOTS WAS SPANKED Her Fathers Bribe Proved Him a Foe to Education I Philadelphia Ledger r Davy Dav was Wa shaving in his hi bedroom when he heard head his voice and his little daughter engaged In earnest erest converse In the parlor He realized that some weighty matter mater was being beins discussed and soon he heard the little one sobbing This made him nervous nerous and he cut cu a gash in his chin Then the th little one one known hown to her Inti mIt Intimates Int mates mate as Toots Toot came into the room where Davy Dai was wa wiping the te blood from his face and wondering if he should try t to finish shaving or go to t a barber shop shop the them matter matte Toots Tott asked aske Davy DaV Davy was w popular with wIt his offspring and she dried away her tears tear as a she in i told him her troubles When I get a 3 good goo card at school my mamma mama gives me two cents she con and today toda I did not get a card cr and mamma will wi not give me the pennies I ought to have had the card I was good and it was was not me car that tat giggled It I was wa Sadie Sa ie Lewis Lwis I told the teacher and I told mamma but she would not give me the two cents cause I did not have havo the te good god card that the mean old teacher give me Two cents cent for a good card eh eli said sad Davy Da Well Yel never mind Here Her is a dime Every Eve time you do not get a good god card I will wi give ive you 10 1 cents cent You Just come and tell tel me O about it I You better not say anything to lb mamma because she sh might not understand and we may want nt to surprise her herAs herA herAs As A the te little girl toddled away to de deposit de posit the dime in her bank Davy Day eon con consoled n soled sol d himself by remarking 1 I cant have the te child crying cring about the house and making me nervous nerous when I I might cut my throat some day d For four days Toots did not bring home a good card and on each day she glee gl fully told her father and as a gleefully banked baked the dime that he gave her Then the teacher remarked to the te little girl cirl Jr on the last lat day of the te school week I cant give you a good card today You iou have not had hd one ona all aU week week You have not been a good girl You laughed and played today and you did not have your our lessons lesson I dont care said sid Toots Toot I dont want ant nt your you old cards anyway anya My y mam mamma mamma I ma a only ly gives rae me m 2 2 cents cent when I get set a good card ard and my papa gives me 10 cents when I dont get et one one So there tere Tats lats that asked aked the amazed teacher Toots Toot repeated her story stor and was wa taken before the principal She was a little frightened and and she was wa almost ost certain that she did not understand but she be that what her er father did espe especially chIlly caly In the way of giving her money for her bank was all al right and she told the principal about her fathers liberality and of her mothers parsimony faters And she wound up with wih the declaration that she did dd not care cr for good Cards any a more The Te principal asked aked Toots ats a lot of ques tons about abo t her father r his bs age his hs o occupation pation dation naton and his hi disposition I Then Thea she le let Toots go and sat down to write to Davy Dav That letter was a wonder said Davy Dav when he was wa telling the story stor I gath gt gathered ered red from reading it that the by the way I judge that she is a re remarkably r remarkably pretty young woman woman to t Judge from rom her writing is in i doubt whether I Iam Iam am a Filipino an Eskimo or an Austra Autra Ian han lan bushman Maybe she thinks I 1 am ama a plain fool Anyway she roasted think me a a aplenty aplenty plenty and she hinted that if It I was de determined to remain a foe to education and intended to continue to undo the work vork done by our board of education she would be gratified If I would keep my child out of school Really Realy she seemed to think I 1 was wa about to overturn civilization and start star chaos in New Kew York And the worst wort of i iwas it was that poor Toots To t was wa spanked by oy he her herI mother for failing to get the cards the two cents reward offer has ha been ben cars with drawn and wife shares the I drw my views o of the school principal r regarding me inc mer |