LITERAL INTERPRETATION. Parental interest in the educational process ot a child € ould not go much farther than in the ca.se of Mr Jones, whose method of solving mathematical problems would have been appreciated at Dotheboys Hall. I.lns was the note, which was handed to a teacher the other day: "Dear Mum,—Please ixcuse Johnny today. He wil not be at school. He is acting as timekeeper for his father. Last night you gave him this iximple, if a field is four miles square, how long will it take a man walking three miles an hour to walk two and a-half times around it? Johnnv ain't no man, so we had to send hie daddy. They left early this morning, and mv husband said they ought, to be back late tonight, though it would be hard going. Dear Mum, please mako the nixt problem about ladies, as my husband can't afford to lose the day's work. I don't have no time to loaf, but I can spare a day off occasionally ■better than my husband can.—Resply vis Mrs Jones." ' " '
HEAVY, DEPRESSED FEELING. " About twelve months ago," writes Mrs B Neill. Patton street, South Broken HilL N.S.W., "I got nasty pains across my stomaeh and chost, which gave me a heavy depressed feeling. After using various remedies without success, I tried Chamberlain's Tablets, the first close of which did roe «o much good and gave sucli relief that I persevered with ■ tliem, Mid now enjoy good health."—[Advt.J 8 ,
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Evening Star, Issue 15074, 4 January 1913, Page 10
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