Show 1 r YOUNGSTER WAS A DIPLOMAT After His Explanation Wh What Was Wat There for the Slender Schoolmistress School School- Schoolmistress mistress to o Do i iThe The principal of a it certain Indiana school Is ver very thin Al- Al Also she very is is very verr sensitive about this qu quality lity At her school no one mentions it 01 Recently Decently several of her boys ha had a along 0 long series of quarrels with the Ule boys boya Q of the neighboring ward school The 1 principal talked and talked against fighting but with no results The fighting continued Finally one day she announced that she would give the combatants at her school a n thrashing j If any more frays fras follow followed d. d A long longtime longtime time and all was quiet Then one day came me the the he heus us usual l fight fi t and and- pf cou course e. e t the Inevitable lining up for the 1 II d Before I punish you jou I want you yoa to tell me what you were fighting about this time the principal told K the recreant ones i v Oil were silent but finally the least Jj fighter spoke up Well the boys pp up at t that mt building teased us and and said j 3 that we had the skinniest principal In town and we told them you weren't verent skinny at all nIl but slender slender and then f they began fighting Needless ss to say no one got thrash thrashed 2 |