Show JOKE WAS ON THE TEACHER instructor discovered all too late just whose petticoat it was that showed after the teacher had trained her ones of mixed pupils to habits of comparative neatness she eho instructed them to keep a watchful eye on each other if hands were soiled shoos shoes rusty or unevenly laced each embryo sherlock Sh who noted anything nelsa amiss wits was requested to write on the blackboard shoes ehrea aro are unlaced or it a similar warning ono morning every child in tho the room hastened to the board and wrote petticoat show forty sentences thus glaringly proclaiming the brazenness of a petticoat moved the teacher to unusual watchfulness watchful noaa and as one little girl niter after another crossed the room she kept a sharp lookout tor for tho the obtrusive petticoat but none appeared so bo far as she could son seo every petticoat present was modestly keeping itself within fashions ions bounds her enlightenment came when the board was needed for arithmetic with eraser in hand the teacher faced the class and sald har haft somebody tidied herself up so that I 1 can now erase this warning no o o shrieked every child gilld in triumph its yours teacher |