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Show TEACHER MARKS BACK; KIDDIES GO SEE PARADE The parole officer of the city school board will probably save himself the trouble of inquiring why so many children chil-dren were absent from the city schools this morning when he remembers that he himself, and tho members of the board of education afflce staff went their merry way to the street to enjoy the sweet strains of "Calliope," and watch the pretty ladies on the pretty horses, and to hear tho lions roar, and gaze with freshened wonder the tiger with his stripes. Some conscientious mothers took time by the forelook today to-day and sent a note to the teacher of which an imaginative sample reads: "Underpaid and Educative Friend: "Please kindly excuse John, (or James) or Ethel (or Dora), as the case might be, from school this morning. morn-ing. She. (he), as the case may be, has endured a restless night and is not fit for close study today at all. "With best wishes for the increase of your salary. "PAINSTAKING MATER." Whereupon the indulgent yet underpaid under-paid teacher smiled, and allowed memory to wander back over the years to the time when the circus came to town and father told tho same old lie to mother, "I suppose I'll have to take the kids to the circus whether I want to or not,'" and she wished she were a child again. Thousands of city school children, whether excused or not, had the pleasure pleas-ure of watching the circus go 'by, and some were ovon indulged to the treat ro dinner down town. oo |