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Show IMITATION By Richard Park, Ind. uno morning last year I .arov u to a country schoolhouso before thj,J bell had rung. As 1 hitched my horso to tho coal house, a fat, chubby boy camo walking up and said: "How nro you?" I responded: "All right. How ore you75f Surveying-mo with-some curiosity, ho shoved his hands down into h's pants pockets as far ns he could, and, leaning back in all his dignity, said: "Do you know our teacher?" I said that I did. Heresponded: Here-sponded: "Ho uses terbaccer." I said: "Oh, you must bo mistaken; ho Is too nlco a man for that!" But the little fellow threw himself back and with his hands shoved even deeper than ever Into his pockets, said, with moro emphasis than I can make theso lines show, and as a final and conclusive, argument: "Yes ho does, too, and ho thinks wo don't know It" Hero was a 'teacher doing very good work In tho school room. Yet he was weighed In. the balance by this first yqar youngsternnd found wanting. Although his 'conscious teaching was good, his unconscious uncon-scious training was tending to make out ot this boy and also the other twenty boys he had users of tobacco. tobac-co. Even the youngest pupil in tho school had found out that he had used the weed, although he had tried I to conceal it. Imitation Is ono of tho greatest factors fac-tors in education. The safest thing Is to follow Dr. "James' example: "Be the lmltateable thing." Journal ot Education, n |