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Show An Apt Pupil. A settlement worker was doing her best to instruct a class of small girls in the ways o housekeeping efficiency. effic-iency. "Now, before you buy fruit,' she said, "be sure to pinch one to see whether it is ripe." Thereupon she gave a nickel to an attentive scholar and bade her get a plum from some nearby fruitstand. In a few minutes the girl was back. Hushed with exercise. She put the plum and the nickel on the desk. "I pincht one, lady," she said, "but de Guiny chased me free blocks. And it ain't every Guiny yer can pinch one from." |