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Show Warned. A serious-minded New Yorker, who, because' of his dignified outlook on life, has sent his son, aged twelve, to a particularly strict and proper boarding board-ing school in New England, unexpectedly unexpect-edly visited the school last week. Ascertaining As-certaining the location of his young hopeful's room, he climbed the four flights of stairs necessary to reach it and entered. On a mammoth placard pla-card suspended from a steel engraving engrav-ing of "Washington and Generals" (presented to the youth as a Christmas Christ-mas gift by his admiring parent) was the cheerful sentiment: "Don't spit on the ceiling. We have lost our ladder." |