Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-11
Committeeman Resign


Finally after several members Of the
committee had been visited and prop
erly demonstrated with at the hands Of
q vigilance committee, organized for the
occasion, and after the said members
of the committee had been carefully
doctored and had received applications
of raw beefsteak to injured optics they
all handed in their designations and
the trouble was thrashed out at meet
ing held in Miss Leaming's room.
Yesterday the chairman resigned and
the children appiauded One good little
boy arose and suggested in a mild voice
that he thought the teacher was right
and that the committee ought to con-
tinue to run the school, but his conse-
lation ended in a yelp as he felt the
adroitly applied business end of a pin
entering the calf of his leg, and he sat
down only to rise to a point of per-
sonal privilege as he landed on tack
placed on his bench.
The little negro boy who had caused
trouble before, arose and suggested
something about the treatment ac-
corded him. and he was promptly called
Sambo, and from the doubled fists and
low threats sent out by members of
the clan he knew what was coming and
he went home under escort.
The report of other children was
brief. One girl had been compelled to
write 81 love Maggie" forty times before
being allowed to go home because she
had been caught eating a piece of cake
which she had baked at cooking school
and had been told to take home to her
parents The committeeman had taken
the cake away and eaten it, and as she
thoroughly disliked the maggie" in
question she was bitter against self
government.
CheWs Gum Till Recess
Another boy had been compelled to
give up "wad" of gum which he had
been caught chewing during school
hours. He alleged that he had later
detected a member Of the committee,
the one who had taken it away from
him, chewing the same gum.
The children had been studying
"Evangeline'' during the year, and at
the suggestion of the teacher had fixed
up scrap books. Each scrap book con-
tained appropriate pictures, cut from
magazines or books and pasted in the
scrap books, while fitting verse from
Evangeline had been pasted beneath.
Upon the examination of one boys
scrapbook it was learned that he had
selected the beautiful sentiment of a
certain verse of the grand old poem
in which Basil, the love-lorn, Is sup
posed to stand between Evangeline's
window in the evening and see her
dainty figure moving about before the
| lighted window above.
To the thrilling lines the youth had
applied a clipping from a liniment adj
Vertisement in Which an old and ugly
maiden woman, dressed in nightcap,
nightgown and corkscrew curls was
making her way slowly TO bed, That
picture would not have been so bad
had not the great toe of the maiden
lady protrlded from beneath the hem
| of her gown and around the member a
red flannel rag had been wrapped The
liniment advertisement. in the eyes OF
the committeeman, did not coincide
with their ideas Of the expression of
sentiment of the verse in question, and
the offender was compelled to make
sundry copies Of a verse in which II
love my teacher dearly. was the most
prominent line
President Heart-Broken
Such was the cause of part OF the
trouble. and the scholars did not like
the idea OF being governed by the other
| children. The popular president had
won the disfaVor of the pretty girls of
| the school because of the position he
occupied, and he was heart broken.
The other members OF the committee
had had their faces punched until they
were tired. and they wanted to quit.
Prominent members OF the committee
had found wingless flies crawling and
llunrching unsteadily about In their
| lunch boxes, so that they could not eat
their dinners. One unfortunate mem-
ber OF the committee was caught smok-
ing q cigarette. and the other hoys
promptly wrote his father an anony-
nous note and went around TO the COM
mltteeman's house that night In the
hope OF seeing him spanked.
And SO the troubles were told until