The sun., 1903-11-09
PUN IN EVENING SCHOOLS.
Inctdeuts That Relieve Q Teachers Life
Of Monotony.


The principal and teachers in q certain
public evening school in Brooklyn expect
10 have a heap of fun to-night when the
father Of young woman pupil comes
around as he has threatened to do with
six boards OF edumen cation as he put it.
The young woman was sent away from the
school few nights ago because she created
q scene In the sohoolhouse. She returned
with her father, an angry German. who told
the principal he would come back Monday
for the purpose Of having all OF the teachers
discharged. He said he was acquainted
with six OF the boards and would bring them
all around. What he really meant was
that he was acquainted with ak members
OF the Board Of Education.
1This WAS just one Of those funny cases
which we have had to handle this term"
said the principal. 'Sone parents come
here and actually demand that one teacher
be assigned especially TO instruct one pupil
"There is really more fun in the night
schools than you will find In theatre"
explained another principal. About
week ago | sent pupi! home because she
had been i'll. told her to come back with
a certificate to prove that she WAS all right
Half an hour later she returned with her
father and mother two angry Germans,
who were Juggling heavy frame containing
Il marriaGa certiHcate.
.The father shook his fist at me and de-
manded to know why | sent his child home.
There is our marriage certiGcate,' ne
shouted. That was the clo5est call l ever
had. OF course 1t took some time for me
to convince the angry parents that wanted
the child to come back with a physicians
certificate to proove that she had fully
recovered from contagious disease from
which abe .kHd hSee2 s:iossfiiRS
n 1N Fast SiIe &, school
Wednesday last one Of the teachers asked
a young man to give an example showing
how subtraction could be put 10 practical
use in the ordinary walks of life
to grocery to buy quarters worth Of
eggs and got sixteen. On the way home
she busted four, SO she went back and gave
the grocer fits. That left twelve"
The il Illustrated. lectures attract many
pupils who would not attend the schools
otherwise. In this connection might be
mentioned the case of boy who was
sent home for misb shaving. On the
following night, when there was to be an
illustrated lecture. the boy returned and
said to his teacher:
Johnny Schaefer's father hanged him
self tonight, 30 come to tell YOU Now
can I stay for the pictures?"
He was allowed to stay.
Some Of the boys who remain away from
evening school for a night or two amuse
the teachers by their humorous excuses.
One boy explained his absence by telling
his teacher his ia ther had been in fight
and was 10 be hailed up in court.
Il had to stay away from school on 40
count of it, he continued, because had to
find six men who would agree to stand up
in the Essex Market court as witnesses
My father heard the other man had six
witnesses. l got six all right, and they'll
only charge my old man dollar each"
On the night before election a boy ex-
planned his absence by telling his teacher
be was out electioneering against Tam
many Hall. When asked why he was
against Tammany he said that il Tammany
won there would be lessons in all of the
schools on Saturdays as we'll as other days.
An elderly man with q long beard ap-
peared one night last week dragging an
elderly woman by the hand. He pushed
hsr into the principals office and shouted:
Dot is my bride. l want she talk United
States"
In one of the West Side evening schools
the principal asked an applicant whether
she could read and write.
II can't read reading she said. Il can
only read writing. That is because my
eyes trouble me. | went to a dispensary
to see about it and the architect told me
nv eyes were loose"
A father called to inform the principal
Of the death Of his child
$50 both of your children are now dead
from diphtheria, said the teacher. sym
pathetically. 1T certainly was a great
loss to you"
'Oh no. replied the parent. ait was
most sad. but it was no loss; both were life
inNired"