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Show Teacher Berates Pupil Who Eats Onions, and Well, If You Think It DM n't Stir Up a Fuss, Just Read This for Yourself about his breath, the kids never even noticed It. And all of the af ter-j ter-j noon he had to sit in the back of the room.'' C. F. McKeehan. principal, grinned when shown the note. Innocently, In-nocently, he wrote a note, introducing introduc-ing a reporter and photographer to Miss Oakley. They climbed the stairs and entered her room, hats in hand, on tiptoe. They walked right out again, with greater speed. They sought the principal again. Perhaps he could arrange for them to see Oke and his classmates, by token of his greater authority. Miss Oakley was hunting the principal, t0- , Together they found him. After a due preliminary talk, she cooled a bit. She explained. Two ot the boys, she maintained, had smelled the onions. Okejstilljvas in school, Friday. SEATTLE, Wash. Nov. 22. June Oakley, veteran teacher in Inter-lake Inter-lake public school, stood firm and heavy Friday on her dictum "Onions are out." Old-fashioned parents, doctors, grocers and the like may think an onion a day keeps pneumonia away, but, it developed, they're all wet. And Oke Friden,. 11-year-old Interlaken student, was smarting in disgrace. He had been exiled to the back of the room for an afternoon. His home dinner table, only four years removed from the old country, bore boiled onions the other day. He didn't know what might have come i to him if they'd been friend with i liver. His story of disgrace was told in a letter irom a, small boy classmate. "Today," the other boy wrote, "while we were having music, our i teacher heard some one singing real low. "So she wanted to find out who it was that was singing real low, so she went down the aisle, and then she went back up and sat down at her desk again, and in a minute she told some boys to open the windows. And none of the children knew why after the windows were opened she said, Who had onions for lunch today?" to-day?" "And a boy raised his hand and said he had. So the teacher began to scold him. She said, To you think that you have the right to come to school and your breath smells of onions and all of the children chil-dren around you smell it and they can't work?" And so then she asked ask-ed the class if they1 thought that it was right for a boy to come ito school with onions on his breath. So He Had To Sit In Back "And all of the children except two said 'No.' So the teacher made Oke go to the back of the room and sit, and when he needed any of his books, the teacher would send someone back to give them to him; they would their noses and before the teacher had said anything |
