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Show LOOKED LIKE LABOR WASTED Board's Visit Over, Small Boy Couldn't See Further Necessity for So Much Soap antd Water. He was a new little boy at the orphanage or-phanage and was much impressed by all the scrubbing and cleaning he saw done there, more so because he had come from a home in which disorder and dirt had held sway. He could not understand it; more than that, it irritated him, and when he got the job of scrubbing the dining-room steps he was almost ready to leave. But just then came a new excitement excite-ment to the home. The board was coming to make its annual tour of inspection, in-spection, and the cleaning was doubled. dou-bled. "Get ready for the board," was the home watchword, it seemed, and he, being very human, decided to stay until that big event was over. The day of visiting came and passed. The next morning the new youngster sought the matron. '"Now that them boards has been here, I don't see no use of scrubbing them steps so often do you?" he asked. |