Roosevelt Standard | 1917-01-17 | Page 4 | Local News

A schoolmaster once said to his pupils to the boy who wo would uld make the best piece of composition in five minutes on how to overcome habit he would give a prize when the five minutes had expired a lad of nine years stood up and said well vell sir habit is hard to overcome it if you take off the first letter it does not change abit if you takeoff take off another letter you still have a abit bit left if you ou takeoff ta eoff still another the whole of it remains if you take off another it is not totally used up all of which goes to show that if you want to get rid of habit you must throw it off altogether result he won it