Life — May 21, 1896 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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s AT FISSPRS SOME FUNNY MESSAGES ARE RECEIVED BY TEACHERS IN BROOKLYN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. HERE ARE A FEW SAMPLES: The fact that the ‘Slab City" parents object to clay modeling in the schools is illustrated in the following note sent to a teacher in one of the Tenth ward schools: Miss —: John kem home yesterday wid his clothes covered wid mud. He said you put him to work mixing clay when he ought to be learning to read an’ write. Me man carries th’ hod, an’ God knows I hev enuf trouble wid his clothes in th’ wash widout scraping John’s coat. If he comes home like this agin I'll send him back ter yez to wash his clothes. Mrs. O'R—. Here is one from a Brownsville mother who objects to physical culture: Miss Brown: You must stopteach my Lizzie fisical torture she needs yet readin’ an figors mit sums more as that, if I want her to do jumpin' [ kin make her jump. Mrs. CANAvowsky. The number of parents who object to the temperance plank in the educational platform is greater than the number of objectors to any other class of study in Wil- liamsburg. Here is a copy of a note sent to a teacher in the Stagg street school : Miss —: My boy tells me that when I trink beer der overcoat vrom my stummack gets to thick. Please be so kind and don't intervere in my family afairs. Mr. Curis —. Here is a sample on the same subject sent to a teacher in the Maujer street school : DEAR TEACHER: You should mine your own biz- niss an’ not tell Jake he should not trink bier. so long he lif he trinks the bier an’ he trinks it yen wen bill rains is ded, if you interfer some more I go on the bored of edcation. W.S. In this school the teachers are often compelled to listen to long arguments on the excise question, and the parents who call around to argue become greatly excited when told that the children are taught not to taste alcoholic liquors. One little boy told his teacher that his mother had given him orders to get up and leave the classroom during the hour for discussing the alcohol question. The teacher told the boy to ask his mother to call around at the schoolhouse. She did not come, but wrote this note: , TEACHER: John says you want to see me. I havea bier saloon and ninechildren, Bizness is good in morn- ing an’ aft'noon. How can I come? The Pickleville parents as a rule never omit the ‘obliging " end of a note, as will be seen in the follow- ing, sent to a teacher of the Wall street school : DEAR TEACHER: Pleas excus Fritz for staying home he had der meesells to oblige his father. B. And here is another of the obliging kind: TEACHER: Please excuse Henny for not comeing in school as he died from the ear run-over on Tuesday. ‘By doing so you will greatly oblige his loving mother. Here is one sent to the Brownsville school : DEAR Miss BAKER: Please excuse Rachael for be- ing away those two days her grandmother died to oblige her mother. Mrs. RENSKI. The child mentioned in the following note was neither German nor Irish, But he is back in school after a battle with the doctors : Miss —: Frank could not come these three weeks because he had the amonia and information of the vowels, Mrs, SMITH. The notes sent are sometimes written on scented The Puppet-Booth, Twelve Plays. Fuller. EDWARD ARNOLD, LONDON AND NEW york, Across An Ulster Bog. By M. Hamilton. Worth While. By F. F. Montrésor, FREDERICK A. STOKES CO., NEW YORK AND Loxpoy, Lyrics of Love and Nature. By Mary Berri Chapmas, Rhymes and Roses, By Samuel Mintrom Peck, COPELAND & DAY, BOSTON. Lyrics of Earth. By Archibald Chapman, Soul and Sense, By Hannah Parker Kimball. Adventures in Criticism. By AK. T. Quiller- Now York: Charles Seribner's Sons, 17 2uiller-Coue In the Valley of Tophet, By Henry W. 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