ANGELS IN BATHING-DRESS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2419, 6 February 1909, Page 9 (Supplement)

ANGELS IN BATHING-DRESS.

TEACHER’S MISPLACED ZEAL Jena, the most enlightened town of Germany, the seat of the most advanced science of Europe, is shaking with laughter ; ver the strange results of the zeaiousness of a- religious teacher at a certain high school for girls. . , Another teacher, entering a class of young girls in this particular school, found the pupils bubbling over with, suppressed laughter, as they were looking at books, which were hurriedly hidden away on his entrance. Curious as to the causo of the hilarty, ho questioned one of the little girls, .who blushingly handed to him a copy of the hook of religious instruction which is used by the class, saying that all the angels in the pictures were wearing bathing costume. To his amazement, the teacher saw that wherever an angel appeared in the illustrations, it had been provided with _ bathing-dress, carefully drawn in with ink. Inquiries were at once instituted, when it .was found that the religious teacher, thinking that the angels were unwholesome for little girls to look upon had withdrawn all the hooks from the class, and returned them a day or two afterwards with the angels decorously, garbed. The effect was ludicrous, in the extreme, and the .little angels, .'which had hitherto passed almost unnoticed, are now the talk of the town. The teacher responsible for the incident will have to shake off from Ins feet the dust of enlightened Jena, as the school authorities have antimated their opinion that it would be as well for him to transfer his sseal arid sense .of decorum to • another school. '...y,