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Show SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH MONEY. One Pupil in New York Acted as the Family Bank. "Whero do school children get all the money thoy take to school?" was asked a Now York teacher who was worrying over the frequent thotts from the pupils In her room. "I don't know," sho said. "Tho situation situ-ation is puzzling. It Is a fact that almost every child brings money to school. Many of them have only a cent to buy a doughnut or a stick ot candy, but others carry surprisingly large sums. Not long -ago the charges of theft were so frequent in my room that I (fled to stop this universal carrying of money. I asked the mothers moth-ers not to give their children money during school hours, except In cases where it was really needed to buy luncheon. Many of them promised to cut off tho allowance, but the small coins continued to circulate Just the same. A few mothors declared that they gave the children money for safe keeping. I learned that ono girl In my class came to school day attor day with from $20 to $30 pinned In her clothes. The father sport everything ho could lay his hands on, and as tho little girl's garments were the only place where he could never find the money sr.j was converted Into the family bank." The plan seemed to work, bo far as the spendthrift father was concerned, but It worried the teacher. |