Her Logical Reasoning

1905

In his "Comic School Tales" H. J. Barker gives some amusing answers by children technically known in England as "howlers."

Here are some of them: A teacher in a school at Stepney, East London, was giving her class an examination on the Scriptural work of the previous three months. Among other questions the lady asked: "With what weapon did Samson slay the thousand Philistines?" And one girl, jumbling her Old and New Testament knowledge, stood up and replied: "With the ax of the apostles."

A woman teacher had been explaining the story of the casting adrift of the infant Moses. "Now, why was it, do you think, that the good mother daubed the little ark boat so carefully with slime and pitch?" "Oh, ma'am," said one little 5-year-old girl, "to make the baby stick inside."


Father Gapon Remembers Advice

Father Gapon, the Russian priest who is such a prominent figure just now, is said to be guided in great measure by this epigrammatic advice given him long ago by his father: "Be a priest, but do not forget to be a man. Love the oppressed and remember that the only religion worth living and dying for is justice."