Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-27
. THE SCHOOL REGULATIONS.
Superintendent Wright Explains the Rule
ON AbsenteoiSm.

shall forfeit his seat in the school, and the
teacher through the principal, shall forthwith j
the pupil is suspended No pupil thus sus-
pended shall be restored to school till he. has
given satisfactory assurance of punctuality in
the future, and obtained permission from the [
superintendent to return. In the application
of this rule, dismissals and hardness shall be
counted as absences, one case of each counting
as one half days absence.
Truant playing is strictly forbidden, and no
pupil shall be received in the school after play
ing truant, without permit from the super
intendent. 4tss
This rule has not been changed during
the past year, but stands as it has for years,
except that dismissals and hardness are now
counted as absences in it's application, and
that the avoidance of serious or imprudent |.
exposure to health is numbered among the
excuses accepted by the teacher.
Undoubtedly the rule was enacted to Sc
cure the greatest good to the greatest num-
Der, and in the belief that each case of alb
sence or hardness was an injury not only to
the delinquent, but to the whole school.
Our absentee rule does not seem arbitrary
or severe when compared with that of other
cities. The following is tie rule in Cincin-
natl:
2O1. In every case Of absence of pupil for |
more than three half days in four consecutive |
weeks, without satisfactory excuse to the |
teacher, for any other cause than those per-
mitted above the absentee shall, without ex-
ception or favor, be suspended from the school, |
and the facts Immediately reported to the rrus-
tees of the district or their chairman, and the |
pupil shall not be re-admitted until the be-
ginning Of the next quarter, unless by written
order of the majority of said trustees, fled
with the principal of the school.
The following is an extract from the reso-
lutions of the Fort Wayne schools
When any scholar in the intermediate or high
school is absent two days, or their equivalent
in parts of days, or any scholar in the primary
school is absent four days.. or their equivalent
in parts of days. in four consecutive weeks,
| without an excuse from the parent or guardian,
given either in person or by written note, salts
flying the teacher that the absence was caused
by his own sickness, or by sickness in the fam
| lily, he shall be reported to the superintendent
for suspension. No pupil being suspended
shall be restored to school till the parent or
! guardian has given satisfactory assurance that
the pupil will be punctual in future, and has
4 obtained permission from the superintendent
| for him to return.
In Minneapolis the rule is as follows:
So. Every scholar in the High school, Or in
the district or primary schools, who shall be
absent two half days, or tardy two times Zone
hardness counting as one absence) i'll four con-
secutive weeks, without excuse from the
parent or guardian, given in person or by writ.
ten note, satisfying the teacher that the alb
sence was caused by his own sickness, or of
| imprudent exposure to health, shall forfeit his
seat in the school; and the teacher shall forth
with notify the parent and in special cases the
superintendent, that the pupil is suspended.
No pupil thus suspended, unless for sickness,
shall be restored to the school till the parent or
guardian has given satisfactory assurance that
the pupil will be punctual in the future, and
obtained permission from the superintendent
for his return.
Believing that irregularity in the attend
ance of pupils upon the schools is an evil
that is often caused by carelessness and in
difference on the part of parents the co.
operation of all who believe in the enforce
) ment of wholesome regulations is respect
fully solicited. B. F. WRIGHT.
) The Minnesota Wisconsin, TeleOraphic Mar
riaOe.
Y Chicago Tribune.J
Marrying by telegraph has certainly
q romantic flavor about it that ,
certain class of sensational young peopl,
E will be charmed with; but it is easy
t and unsatisfactory results. Take, for exam
f pie, such case as the Z'ribune's Milwaukee,
e correspondent sent on Friday last, wher
IS Miss Budd1ngton stood up before clergy
L man in the telegraph Office in that city ant
was united in marriage with young maj
!. out West. Suppose that the operator at tn
/. other end of the line had been resolved Il
n play practical joke upon the young lady
n with or without the consent of the bride
groom, and had reported him present whe1
y he was not, or reported him as saying eyes
= when the clergyman propounded the usua
Il questions, when he really said "no''-ho,
e would the girl really know whether she wa
b lawfully married or not She did not hea
It him cay he would take her for better Q
It worse he did not place the ring upon he
= finger he did not raise her veil and kiss he
:. after the ceremony; neither did her "sistert
>. her cousins, and her aunts," nor any of th
ID witnesses. The telegraph, unlike Nj
Edison's talking machine, cannot be az
If pealed to hereafter as witness in the cas-
~ and proof produced from the instrument
az Other contingencies might arise to mar til
y happiness of the bride and render the a
= legged marriage ceremony a delusion and
d snare. Suppose the bridegroom shout
is bride the operator at the other end of th
Or line to go on with the proceedings at q Gel
in tain hour in his (the bridegroom's absenc
1T and, after being run down and caught by til
OF bride and her friends, and the obligation {
= husband being insisted upon, he should
ne able to prove an abb on the day and date
he his alleged wedding. No! It may be q
as right in Miss Buddington's case, but Il
ed practice is certainly q dangerous one to bot
OF parties, and cannot be commended. Beside
OF the custom may have legal as well as NOR
81 aspects that might be troublesome to Q,
ch counter. We certainly cannot recommen
mt the practice, and hope it will never becon
he universal. There is kind of habeas-co
of pus reality about the old fashioned methc
he of getting married that we are partial to,
ne ne it is less romantic and does not smack
70, loudly of the progressive spirit of this ia
- and iconoclastic age.
all BROKEN CONTRACT.
Fred Bailev Divorced from HIS Wife Ka,
rs Cincinnati Enquirer.
Fred A. Bailey, for thirty five years prom
inent throughout the country as a manag
and contracting agent Of circuses, v
- divorced from his wife, Kate Bailey, Ia
~ Saturday. The case was heard before Juds
81 Smith, the ground of action being adulter
hll The parties have been married sixteen
le- seventeen years, the lady's maiden mar
ma being Beckwith. At the time of her ma
40 rage to Bailey she was the widow
en- Charles ssWalters," celebrated circus pc
re- former in his day. He was the father
7as the young lady, Miss Frankie Bailey, who
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