Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-01-10 | Page 9 | Not to be Caught

NOT TO BE CAUGHT. I think children arr not so observing as thoy used to be," said a member of the school board to a teacher whose class he was visiting. "I hadn't noticed it, said the teacher. teach-er. "IH prove it to you," said the school ofTicprS: pompously. Turning to the class, he said: "Some one give me a number." "Thirty-seven," said a little girl, eagerly. He wrote "73" on the board. Noth inp was said. "Well, somp one else give me a number." "Fifty-seven," said another child He wrote "75" and smiled knowingly knowing-ly at the teacher when nothing was said. He called for a third number, and fairly gasped at tho indignation manifested by a small, red-faced urchin, urch-in, who said: "Seventy seven, and see if you can change that." Harper's Magazine. During the first two years of war the r increase of women workers in Great h Britain, exclusive of purely feminine occupations, was 866,000. Of these r 765, 000 directly replaced malf labor. I In other words, more than three-quart it ers of a million women left their home to release that number of men k for military service. Japan has a compensation act ap- plying to certain classes of factory F i workers. 1