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Show Knew Something. Schoolchildren know a great deal more than they used to do. In fact, some of them, In their own opinions, at least, are quite capable of tutoring their tutors. "Those kiddles I teach are as knowing know-ing as an encyclopedia," said a teacher a week or two ago. "In what way?" asked his friend. "Well," replied the scholastic person, per-son, "the other day I set a problem in arithmetic 'A rich man dies and; leaves a million pounds. One-fifth is to go to the wife, one-fifth to his son, one-eighth one-eighth to his brother, and the rest to the hospitals. Wrhat does each on get?' " "Yes?" queried the friend, not very Interested. "Back came the reply from tha smallest boy in the class : 'A lawyer, sir." " |