LESSONS ON SMILING
TEACHE(t'S IIJEA CQMM^^DED. A ypung and pretty schqplmistr.ess, believing a gay smil.e a useful asselt tq any girl — perhaps hecause of her owij experiences out of sch'ool hours — decided to give her pupils lessons in thq art. A competition for the brightest smile was going op in her classroom oue day when a Government school inspector walked in. He disapproved— strongly. Pupils, he said, were not even allowed to smile of their own accopd in school, let alone he taughlt and encouraged to do sp. He reported th'e mistress to the Rector of Paris University. Finally the matter came hefore th'e Minister of Puhlic Education: Then "came the surprisp for Ithe gloopiy inspectors and higher authorities. The Mipi^tqr was dmpressed with the pretty teacher's Wright idda, apd ipsfead of jjlamin^ her he said he Would like $o m.eqt he?.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 612, 17 August 1933, Page 2
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142LESSONS ON SMILING Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 612, 17 August 1933, Page 2
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