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Show NOTHING SERIOUS l: ""'"' ' ;.- ' lyDwVtlMrtiM 1 1 - . School days art happy dayi swept for ! v school childrea. ,' r 1 . It wu a 1) cart-wanning and inspiring l, r'r sight to in Salt Laka'i younger generation f . ' I to" 0 to achool last week Mn drafted JL by their mothers and fathers. r . v Naturally, wit the opening of achool, I . w oamo acrosa aomo humorous situation. LwaUw Theymake food reading. , , Far iastoaee, Mrs. T. W. Gastia, IMS W. tad Seats, kad little troakle at the Fraaklia achael eaaalag day. She waa trying -to talk her g-year-eld daaghter, Naaey, tato eaterlag the first grade t-: .... . But Nancy has a Bind of her own. She didnt want to ge la the first grade. "But, Nsncy her mother asked, "why dont yon want to go in the first grade?" , Nancy pouted and stack out her lip. She whispered to her mother that aha waa afraid the ether children would laugh. "Why would they laugh at you, Nancy?" her mother asked. "I cant even read yet," Nancy retorted. . WoaxUrful MoceT . But It took small 5-year-old Salt taker to sum op the verag chUd's attitude en education. . ; A SaB Lake mother waited aazlaasly for her small sea to cease heme frees his first day la kindergarten, Finally he trudged up the stops. "How do yon like Under- -laatoaWKehe asked. 11 The boy beamed. "It's swell," ha said. "There's not book in the Joint" What's Covple wf Years? And little fellow out in Murray took the easy way out when he filled out his new term application card. In the 'space where be was supposed to write his age, the young lad wrote "nine." 'It happened the teacher was a friend of the family and knew the boy was only seven. She asked: "Why do yon say you're nine when you're only seven?" Bat the lad had a logical expbaatiea. 1 caat spell seven, bat I can spell alae," he ezplalaad. Dreams Are) Jsjst Pre awns , Mayer Earl J. Glade grew mellow the other morning after city commission meeting. . After signing a batch of official looking documents with his scrawling pen, the mayor sat back with a wistful grin and admitted that In a senee his life has been a failure. "It's a funny thing," he recalled, "but dreams never come true." He explained that hi Us yeath be bad a great aanbltiea he bad a dream. "There was one thing I wanted to be above all else," he said. But dreams get lost along the way; they disappear, vanish. Like all dreams. Mayor Glade's childhood ambition never came true. "If. anyone bad told me when t was lad of five that I would end up being mayor of Salt Lake City, I would have been distinctly disappointed. I might even have cried. "I wanted above ail alae to grew ap aad be a metarmaa en the streetcars that traveled ap aad dowa Mala street," he said. All's Mr at the fair , J. A. Theobald, Utah state fair manager, has a problem. He has two Shetland ponies he don't know where to place. Although the state fair has no event listed for Shetland ponies this year, Mr. Theobald received a wire from L J. PreaceU, Twin Falls, Idaho, that two Shetland ponies- were on their way to Salt Lake City. .. . . "I . guess well have to take them," the muddled fair manager admits, "111 have to find an extra ribbon somewhere." By the way, Utah poultry fanciers are a little peeved at the fair management They cant figure out how they can make a profit out of this year's exposition. The entry fee for poultry Is tec per bird. Aad the first prixa la each dlvtatea la II; second place brlags the owner free Mr. Theobald thinks the poultry fanciers shouldn't be so mercenary. mer-cenary. "Can't they compete for. the thrill of It?" he asks. Sam, the Sad Cynic, Say at - It's a shame to keep young boys and girls cooped up In school when they could be out learning things. |