Drawn by May Wilson Preston
A BOY’S BEST FRIEND
THE SENIOR WRANGLER: “Never you mind what she does, or how she looks. You quit laughin’ at her, and, say, don’t you ever forget what I’m going to tell you—drunk or sober, that lady is me mother!”
At the recent exhibition in New York of the work of American women sculptors no groups attracted more amused attention than these plasteline groups by Ethel Myers, the wife of Jerome Myers, the painter. The single figure is called “The Fifth Avenue Girl,” and the group is entitled “A Bit of Gossip.”
FRESH LIGHT ON WASHINGTON
The following is a literal transcript of a bona-fide debate by a boy in a public school. As it throws a bright light on two important, and apparently misunderstood, historical characters, it has been thought worthy of a niche in “Lighter Vein.”
Dear teacher, kind schoolmates, honorable judges and chairman, seeing that I am the speaker on the affirmative side I say that Washington was a greater man than Napoleon.