The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-13
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Town Tales
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At a high school situated in the cen
ter of a large and populous city 1t
has become the custom among teachers
and pupils to carry a lunch or pat
ronize the lunch counter on account of
the length of time which expires be-
tween the breaking of their fast and
the time for dinner. know popular
teacher in the school who always keeps
a small box of soda biscuit on hand to
relieve any hungry feeling which ne
might happen to have during the
morning. At a meeting of few select
young men after school hours the 9TH
err day, which was held in the room
over which this respective teacher pre-
sides, the pangs of hunger kept grad
ually stealing over the systems Oh
these few young men, who finally found
| it intolerable to hold the meeting Wnen
their stomachs' were in such dire dis
tress. Some of them knew of the pres
ence of this particular little box, and
with a firm determination to satisfy
their appetites helped themselves to
the small amount of nourishment con-
tanned therein. Now a day or two at
forwards, at recess, the thought came
into the teachers mind that it would
not be a bad idea to take bite. With
the thoughts of partaking of some light
refreshment he extracted from the
drawer of his desk the sacred par
eel To his surprise he found the con-
tents gone. Now everybody will agree
with the teacher that it is rather irrita-
ting for a hungry man to find that his
much desired lunch had been devoured
by some miscreant, and, not thinking
about the lost meal so much as Of the
deed he decided to speak of it to the
school. When recess was over and the
class had once more assembled. 1t
was noticed by some of the students,
and especially the guilty ones who hap
pened to be present, that something
was up as the same usual look of Sc
renity did not appear upon the peda-
gogue's face.
So interested were the pupils in the
wanderings Of Zenephon or the course
pursued by Virgil on his voyage to the
regions of the internal gods, and so
quiet was the room that the dropping
of a pin could be heard. The teacher
Immediately called the class to order
and to those not already aware Of the
fact. told of losing his lunch in some
mysterious manner. In his remarks he
mentioned the fact that he thought the
bows connected with the deed a little
smarter than they ever appeared in
their lessons, and asked for an apology.
This the young men were willing to
give and nicely written apology,
signed by all who had hand in the
matter, was handed to the teacher.
The matter was forgotten until the
teacher returned to school the next
morning. What was his surprise when
upon opening the door of his room he
found in the center of the room full
sized barrel of crackers with a tag on
top on which was written SAP,
Paid Now it remains for the boys to
either eat the crackers or give them to
somebody who will eat them.
1t takes long time to outgrow ones
childhood A show window with col
lection of mechanical toys displayed
furnishes sufficient reason to block a
sidewalk at almost any time. A good
illustration of this fact Is furnished at
the corner of Main street and Barton
place, where a clown made in the most
approved circus ring fashion goes
through sort of sleight-of hand per-
Torrance, worked by concealed mech
anism
Rather an amusing piece Of gossip
appears in one of the Chicago papers
relative to this discussion of the Rob-
erts case in Washington. OF course the
article refers to Congressman Fitzger-
aid, but 1t was made to read in this
wise:
zone of the most extraordinary
speeches was the one of Fitzpatrick
from Massachusetts, who said that his
state was already feeling the insidious
inroads of Mormonism. The fact that
the sober and sedate New England
state was on the brink of accepting
the pernicious dictrine of a plurality
of wives, put the House in commissions
of laughter. Fitzpatrick grew very red
in the face"
Apropos of election day here in Wor-
cester, it is very different matter In
the south, where I have had an OPP
portunity for close observation In a
part of the southern states there is but
one party, of course, but there is NO
birth of candidates for any office from
governor down to the city dog catcher.