HIS LONG PLAY IS ENDED.
Mere Matter of Chirography Led
Herbert Spencer to Court.
It was fine for Herbert Spencer not to go to school. He is 11 and lives at 1301 Forest avenue. For nine weeks he did not go to school, but had one long grand play. Of course, all good t hings must come to an end, and so did Herbert's fun.
"Son," said his mother to him one day, "why is it I do not get any reports from your teacher? How do I know whether you are are getting along in school?"
"I'll see," said the dutiful child.
Just a little while afterwards Herbert handed his mother a note, written in the geometricals which they teach in the schools and call writing. Reading from the first angle to the last tangent, this is what Mrs. Crabtree, the mother, read:
Mrs. Crabtree:
Your boy Herbert has been in school every day. He will pass. MISS THOMAS.
Miss Thomas was the boy's instructor in the Morse school.
But Mamma knew a thing or two. It turned out that Miss Thomas had learned to write before the copybooks began to use an ax on the alphabet. A charge of truancy stared Herbert in the face yesterday in the juvenile court.
"Better let your teacher write the reports after this," said Judge Porterfield. "Run along this time, but go to school."
