ANGELS IN BATHING DRESS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9362, 3 February 1909, Page 4

ANGELS IN BATHING DRESS.

Jena, the most enlightened town of Germany, the seat of the most advanced science of Europe, is shaking with laughter over the strange results of the zealoasness of a religious teacher at a certain high school for girls. • Another teacher, entering a class of young girls in this school found the pupils bubbling over with suppressed laugtber, as they 1 were looking at books, which were hurriedly hidden away on his entrance. Curious as to the cause of the hilarity he questioned cine of the little girls, who blnshiugly handed to him a copy of the book of religious instruction which is used by the class, saying that all the angels in the pictures were wearing bathing costumes. To his amazement, the teacher saw that wherever an angel appeared in the illustrations, it had been provided with bathing-dress, carefully drawn 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it was found that the religious teacher, thinking that the angels were unwholesome for little girls to look upon had withdrawn all the books from the class, and returned them a day or two afterwards with the angels decorously garbed.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 unnoticed, are now the ralk of the town. The teacher responsible for the incident will have to shako off from his feet the dust of enlightened Jena, as the school authorities have intimated their opinion that it would be as well for him to transfer his zeal a\id sense of decorum to another school.