Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-07
MY PASTIME.

MY PASTIME.
The fellow who wrote ''indigative
moad" at the teachers examination
will wonder why he didn't get higher
grade in grammar" a..
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Why should people say can hun
dred" and not says..an horse9" Or IAN
united effort" but not San young
MANI" Perhaps they do not under
stand the rule governing the use of
"a or an" fa
That old grounding story always
seems to be about as absurd and sense
less as any oLher weather sign. Why
should sunshine on ST. Candlemas
day Indicate cold and stormy weather
for an exact period of six weeks? Why
not look for "a pleasant spell of 3
weeks, days and Is hours? The lion
and lamb sign will then be in vogue.
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The teacher is one of the hardest
worked animals on the foot stool. Why
doesn't hesqnit? Well, after a few
years the harness fits him so we'll he
can't get outsof it, and at the same
time it will not hitch up to any other
sort of job.
Well here it is the fourth day of
February again. Two whole years
and not a dollar earned? Seven hun
dred days and not well one among
them all. just Il useless back num-
Der, living in the memory of an I'M
al, 10 I,N10
and hopeless future. But then it
does no good to lament, d fact which
the old lady may have had in mind
when she said ''don't cement Saman-
tina, don't cement
There was light in the Office of the
COUNTY superintendent quite late last
Saturday mighty which showed that
the regular quarterly inquisition of
teachers was going on. We've been
there and that's how we know.
If the new state superintendent
(, wants to make himself solid with the
teachers of Kansas, lie might direct
that two days time be given to each
regular examination. There is just
as much law for it as there is for car
rying grades" Perhaps a better way
would be to shorten and simplify the
questions used but there seems to be
no hope of that. Or we might have
more frequent examinations-say one
half OF the questions at the @eud of
each month-and avoid the issuing
of the extra Temporary" certificates.
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The school system of Kansas is like
two-story house without stairway
mo means of getting from one story
to the other. Or it is like log-chain
with hook at EACH end and nothing
betweeH them--no connecting link.
Two, .hefty perfume merchants
were canyassiugs in; the, north part
of town one day last week. Their
combined ages could not beHiore than
II years but they exhibited quite. a
little business sagacity aud disposed
of considerable of their oderffefous
wares. In course of time they ran out
ofsmall change and they had to go
down on, main street to dispose OF
some of their, large coins. They
stepped into a store with an air or i'm
portance and one of them ased K the
genial proprietor for a ,penpyss worth
of nickelsi'; OF course it raised asfauglf
but the lads 7dIdn't care aHd really
seemed to enjoy it. Those boys rare
all right. They have the true COM
mercial spirit and some day they win
be depositfng money IN the bank.
Such slips of the Tongue as the one
given above may be called transpesi-
lions. They may consist OF an inter
change of wholesworffssof merely of
Initial sounds. rs.Somesimes they are
the result rQf self-consciousfiess and
cluse further semharassmeht and in
other cases the speaker may be entire
~ unconscious lsofs mistake and
never know that he has said some
think redicHlous ). There Is another
trick our tongues play upon US whert-
IN we misuse oursown; names for the
name of che person addressed or use
ms name in the place of the name of
16htrd person. A few inciden Is which
occurred under our observation will
serve to illustrate the several phases