Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-11

our savage children, whom no one else,
not even their own mothers, can train
and in the machinery of the primary
school shape them into something
that presently develops into the men
and women of tomorrow. The civ
ilized world, while approaching the
force Of these lines, little understands
the LABOR which is extended in this
/ process, and the trials TO which the
WOrk-wOmen are subject. Aching
/ limbs, spinal columns that are weak
and bending and heads that thTOb with
uain are often the result of a
days hard labor, and each day brings
its own peculiar worries and tribula-
tions.
The teachers of the Angel school
! OF this city have troubles Of their
own of q nature probaly not paralleled
anywhere else in the country. Their
bette noire is the onion breath" and
not even the young man who has
attempted to kiss his sweetheart who
had diDed upon boiled onions can ap-
preciate fully what the onion breath
which some of the children have who
attend this school is. 1t is something
fearfully and wonderfully made. and
( ii is al the more surprising when one
sees of what angelic appearance these
children are. The schol is rightly
named for pun upon the children
who attend it, and had the Pope or
/ blessed memory whose witticism upon
the angels has gone down the ages
known of this school he could no
doubt have done much better than
he did
The Angel school is situated in the
extreme eastern part of the city, and
onion beds are numerous i'll the yicln-
/ ity. The brand of onion breath to
which the teachers of this school par
| ticularly object is that the basic part
/ of which is onion in he raw state.
Their troubles in this direction, which
have dated back some time, have
/ steadily increased as more children
have learned of the seductive delights
! of raw onion. The onidn breath first
appeared in the springtime, and there
was more and more OF 1t as the in
creasing warmth of the sun gave life
to the onion sets and they developed
I into that adult vigOr which is the
pride of all lovers Of the onion.
TEACHERS MAKE A KICK.
At first the teachers mildly pro-
tested. and when that was OF no
avail to check the growing evil, they
more vigorously pointed out TO the
children the evil of their ways. But
the pernicious onion breath, like the
cigarette habit had obtained a firm
foothold, and mere persuasion was
not able to eradicate it. One or two
of the teachers resorted to drastic
measures. and one, Miss Mary Hal
leck. handsome, well-built girl,
threatened in her despair to hang
some of the boys from the second
story windows with ropes, so as TO
give them an airing. Perhaps the
most vigorous fighter against the
awful onion breath was Miss LISA q.
buckingham. the sixth grade teacher
and principal of the building, to whom
! all other teachers turned in their eX-
tremity. She led crusade against IT,
which has been kept up increasingly,
gaining ground slowly, all TOO Slowly
the half-discouraged teachers say.
But what ground has been gained at
all has cheered them some When they
look back over the past and hgure out
the progress which has been mace.
The teachers have acquired the ABILITY
IN distinguish the onion breath ut long
5istonce and one even declares she can
smell IL through the telephone. When Il
bov or eirl-boys are the principal Of
fenders-appears whom the teacher has
reason TO suspect has been eating raw on
ION tbere is drumhead court-martial;
.,,1 az the offeuse IS established the guilty
r,,n,I is AT once sent home. Miss Ethel
I-razipr .cacher of the second and third
GRADES sent three boys home in one day for
having violated the prohibition placed by
tho teachers on the eating OF raw onions.
and for n time this punishment seemed TO
hive the desired effect. Miss Buckingham
aud Miss Frazier are the backbone of the
fight and are popularity supposed by their
follow sufferers to be putting In the pres
emf holiday vacation in planning new
v.,vs 10 fight the enemy when the schools
resume. Miss Halleck is no longer IN
this school. having been utterly incapacI-
tated by the awful onion breath.
Many laughable experiences have occur
rcd II, tbe teachers crusade. one fair and
dainty Young woman was sure she had
discovered an offender. but the breath
f,i1sd in "a ford the requisite proof. and the
so,t of the awful odor was apparently To-
cetad lower down. Pursuing her invesu-
cations. She finally discovered little bag
of asafetida spended by % string from
tho lads neck. 1t had evidently been
nlaced there by the boys mother as a pos
s,lie nrecaution against contagion For
o. time the teachers contemplated 81 war
,c,inst this new contrivance but finally
,6,rdoped the design after council had
been held.
A. one said: ''Why, we had TO stop
sor,a,r5ere. and the limitless capacity Of
the field scared MS There was the pea
e,,,,, a,d garlic breath of the Frenchman,
the sauerkraut of the German. the cab
hare Of the native American. and long
,ie. ~ tbe fsvorlte bat odor-creating foods
~ ,.ar,ous natiuualities. We could I've
,,i+b tbes4 and We decided 10 contine our
sttertion IN the onion breath. Now, don't
,.,, sav n word about this-will you2-for
,r. have the children about convinced that
tl.,. must eschcw anything that is not
a,frt,. and bows ave usually ready 90 10
,,,-,t.-r,, l,1t that. The rest OF the VIM
- We win perhaps have some relief from
our steady enemy. but with the approach
- s,rinp we expect it will receive rein
so-ce,,erts. Let it look out however, for
We have some new and move metnods OF
warfare which IL doesn't even think o.
The children who attend this school de-