Show SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH MONEY one pupil in now york acted as the family bank where do school children get all the money they take to school was asked a new york teacher who was borr worrying y ing over the frequent thefts from the pupils in her room 1 I dont know she said the 8 1 u aaion is puzzling I 1 it Is a fact that almost every child brang money to school many of them have only a cent to buy a doughnut or it a stick of candy but others carry surprisingly large sums not long ago tho the charges of theft were so eci frequent in rny my room that I 1 tried to stop this universal universo al carrying of bf money I 1 asked the mothers not to give their children money during school hours except in cases where it was really needed to buy litti luncheon cheon many of them promised to cut off the allowance but the small colna coins continued to circulate just tile the same A few mothers declared that tha t they gave the children money for safe hate keeping I 1 learned that one girl in my class came to school day after lay day with from 20 to 30 pinned in her clothes the fattier father spent everything lie he lay his hands on and as the little girls garments were the only place where he could never find the money she was converted converted into them the family bank the plan seemed to work so far as the spendthrift father was concerned but it worried the teacher |