Miss ——: My boy tells me that when I trink beer der overcoat vrom my stummack gets to thick. Please be so kind and don’t intervere in my family afairs.
Mr. Chris ——
Here is a sample on the same subject sent to a teacher in the Maujer Street school:
Dear Teacher: You should mine your own bizniss an’ not tell Jake he should not trink bier, so long he lif he trinks the bier an’ he trinks it yen wen bill rains is ded, if you interfer some more I go on the bored of edcation.
W. S.
In this school the teachers are often compelled to listen to long arguments on the excise question, and the parents who call around to argue become greatly excited when told that the children are taught not to taste alcoholic liquors. One little boy told his teacher that his mother had given him orders to get up and leave the classroom during the hour for discussing the alcohol question. The teacher told the boy to ask his mother to call around at the schoolhouse. She wrote this note instead:
Teacher: John says you want to see me. I have a bier saloon and nine children. Bizness is good in morning an’ aft’noon. How can I come?
The Pickleville parents as a rule never omit the “obliging” end of a note, as will be seen in the following, sent to a teacher of the Wall Street school:
Dear Teacher: Pleas excus Fritz for staying home he had der meesells to oblige his father.
J. B.