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Show NOT UNTOUCHED BY SORROW Teacher Entirely Mistaken if She Imagined Im-agined Small Girl Had Never Experienced Ex-perienced Suffering. Emily Margaret, a six-year-old Columbus Co-lumbus girl, has straight blond hair. This is a source of much distress to Emily Margaret, as she is not too young to appreciate the advantage of curly hair, and she particularly admires ad-mires black hair. She was at Sunday school recently, and the teacher was telling of the terrible plight of the children of the war-stricken countries. coun-tries. By the way of implanting a proper appreciation of their blessings in the minds of the children, the teacher teach-er called their attention to the contrast con-trast between their own condition and that of the unfortunate youngsters overseas. "Why," she concluded, "you little ones have no idea of what sorrow means." Emily Margaret was impressed, im-pressed, but she could not let the statement go unchallenged. She addressed ad-dressed the teacher thus: "Miss Blank. I'm awfully sorry for them, but all the same I do not know what sorrow means. Every time I see a little lit-tle girl with dark curly hair I have to shut my eyes to keep from crying." Indianapolis News. |