New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
she purchases sugar and soap. The same proc
are repeated till she gets liver sausage and
mustard and turkey and cranberries
OWNS UP BEING DRUNK.

''N1r. Kosma." says Miss Barr. addressing
six-footer. come forward"
The man obeys with swiftness that indicates
his pleasure
I'VE missed you last night" declares Miss
Barr IN a gently reprovins voice; "where were
you?"
Yes I didn't get here" replies Kosma, hest
, tatingly, as if he was summoning up his best
English and thinking at the same time in Czech
! L couldn't get here" he adds. II drunk"
Miss Barr gasps at this unexpected confess
sion. Some Of the pupils roar with laughter
But the teacher ignores the laughter and with
unusual tact dispels the humOr in the situation
by telling Mr. KoSma to take his place at the
blackboard He walks up to it, grasps a pointer
and placing its tip on one of the names written
on the board cries as fast as he can;
Goose, goose, goose
! Herein comes the test for the wits Of the
| pupil named Mr.. Goose.
! Kosna selects the name at random and no.
| body knows which one he will call until his
| pointer falls on one and he begins to repeat It,
| Mr.. GoOse's part of the game now Is TO shout
! goose before Kosma finishes saying IT three
times. If he stops to think in Czech I'm Mr.
/ Goose" and then to translate it into English
/ and shout goose" kosma distances him in the
/ crying race. and as a penalty Mr. Goose must
! stand in a corner with his face against the wall
until all the others in the list have had similar
! opportunity to answer 10 thelr names.
Mr. Goose doesn't get caught He echoeS
! goose" before kosma Is able TO enuhcla'e II
! even a second time koSlna selects 0"dP'
! again the pupil is too quick for him lie con
| tinues through the list. and one after another
| the pupils, even Mr.. Liver Sausage, beat nm
| out But when he comes to cranberries he Is
! stumpcd altogether. It's a new word 10 hlm
/ and he himself stumbes on the first syllable.
| Miss Cranberrics knows the word Well ana
| she shouts il out before kosma can say II once.
! The penalty is on him and he goes to the
| corner with mis- face against the wall
Miss CranDerreS taxes '-s pace at IHe
! blackboard. and. pretending to place the pointer
| on lemon" quickly shifts II TO the liSt IN IN
| tested name n the list and glibly reels OF
| Soup meat. soup meat. soup meat three times
! before Mr. Soup Meat can say II once. ar
! Soup Meat Joins kosma in the corner, amid n
! general laugh and thus ends the butcher shop
and grocery" game for the night. kOsma and
! Soup Meat return to their desks.
! Everybody is IN good Eumor, all nave learlleu
| a little how to speak correctly to the butcher
and grocer. all have learned q little about spell
ing and writing English and an even ten have
| had their thinking powers put 10 the test. 10 To-
| morrow night ten others will be sold. perhaps
carrots or potatoes or some other coihino"'tS'
MORE SERIOUS WORK.
Meantime the class settles down to more
| serious work with books and rectations similar
! TO those In vogue where the heavy routine is net
| llghtened by d session Of play. In the two
hours of real school work remaining 1t IS de-
| cared the pupils accomplish far moro than they
ever did in double the time before the half hour
butcher shop game introduced.
/ At the next night session OF Miss Barr $ class
room work there may be another game OF DutCn-
! er shop grocery, with newly invented detilllS
| TO vary the monotony. Instead of this DIVER
! sion, however there may be a game Of 'eIec-
! ton" This game is designed especially for the
| young men, but the women and girls in the
| school are not barred from exercising the right
| Of suffrage Miss Barr begins her game of
! election" course Of civil government, with
| a mayoralty campaign-one of which most of
| her pupils have d hazy half-complete llnowl-
| edge according to the length of time they have
been In this country.
= After the pupils have learned how to manage
city elections ana vote under the Australian
ballot system and the intricacies of city govern
ment have been taught. they get national cleo
tion to manage. 1t is in this part of the game
! that pupils assume the names of Roosevelt
! BRYAN, Taft and others. While run for
President others act stump speakers and
when election day" arrives all vote ballots re-
| sembling those actually used in a real national
! election.
The election game lasts several nights. 1t
! begins with the registration OF voters proceeds
through the primaries stage, then TO the nomi-