Show LURE OF PHIL APRIL FOUL FOOL mm DRAWS CHILDREN TO HILLS something over two wo hundred school children turned their backs en cli school on the morning of april first to explore the country and enjoy the wilderness in half a dozen directions they went east to recapture they went to the ruins the bridgett bridge and tile cliffs of west water end and north to the reservoirs and the cedar hills even little hattle bell black on her crutches staid up tip with tho the crowd till they began the homeward I 1 march and then try as she woud sha c uld not mike make her crutches and her crippled limb keep her u up p with those animated mated youngsters and she had to be carried the morning was cold and raw law 1 a I z kift of snow on the ground and a keen wind blowing from the north but what was the difference it was april fool day and anad every real human being even a school teacher should know without being bold that it was no day to pour over books little florcen black fell in a pond several feet deep calu crawling out like a drowned rat and ana had find to wait in an improvised closet while the teachers dried her cloths claths and little alma redi ran a nall nail tb th roi I 1 shoe and into liis his foot and co travel bitout limping but the procession went forward with a laugh and shout they ate picnic they imbed climbed trees and cliffs they gathered gum and feasted en cn the bless blessed ed outdoors outdo ois as only children can it would be worth a lio heifer ifor calf to any old fossil forty years old to be able to forget forge t justene Ju stone day the flight of years and the hi habit abit of worry and be a child with the fourth graders to relax and yell and roll in the sand according to the instincts of youth teacher marvin jones ard his wife led one ona company and mr mcallister McAllist sr and the four lady teachers of the grades were a vital part of cf as bany miny other companas comp anys even the high school youngsters lost their heads and though they atten attended dIed the first two classes in f fairly good numbers who when 1 I devotional period arrived they had dwindled to about abo t U fifteen and this number belted for S some 0 m e unknown region northwest north west of town professor baird and M miss is adams followed and itis it is more than likely that from the beginners to the c eleventh grade you could coul d not find one who would remember it if really lie he knew at all that it was a cold day 11 april fool day is a great and useful institution and if anybody is ig in doubt as the the wherefore of it let him go to the children where human instinct is as reliable ns as nature first made it in original ginal rann nian |