Page 1 Advertisements Column 4

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 190, 11 August 1881, Page 1

A schoolboy being requested to write n composition on the Bubject of "Pins," pro-: duced the following :— "Pins are very use- i ful. They have saved the livesof a great? many men, women, and children — in fact, whole families." " How so ? " asked the : puzzled teacher, and the boy replied — " "Why, ! by not swallering them." This matches the' '■■■ story of the other boy who defined salt as : "the stuff tbat makes potatoes taste bad! when you don't put .on any." Some members of Boards of Education are fearfully jealous lest the residences built for teachers should be ren- ; dered 'too corufortable. Plans for a house ! were submitted at a meeting of a Tara- 1 naki Board. and, becauseit contained pro- : posals for two chimneys, it was; " 'say 8 | "Sigma" in the Taranaki.Seios, termed ! "luxurious," and ono of them disappointed of it. A member related what a hermit's life he had to put up with in the early days, and appeared to be under the iixipression that teachers should undergo like privations^ .-Adam* we are told, required n& garb, and wild men of the woods have liyed in caves but|hat : is iio reason why amodem peda' gogiieshQiiJddo Ukewise,—^^, Schoolsioer y '■ -'■ '■■"■ '■' ■