SCHOOL-GIRL HOWLERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20104, 24 March 1928, Page 8

SCHOOL-GIRL HOWLERS

ENLIGHTENING INFORMATION ignorant but iaiaginative The school buy and girl arc often ridiculed- for the “howlers” they make in examination papers, but in some cases it is difficult to believe that the howlers occurred through ignorance. (Some youthful scholars apparently are not gifted with great intellectual powers, but they mafic up for it by displaying a vivid imagination and a keen sense of humour. In all subjects they show intelligence, even though it be of a milj nature. Fur instance in the examinations of one of t.hc big Wanganui schools, a girl writes that the climax of Australia is a temporary one, while another student is of the opinion that Bishop Selwyn translated the Bible into English and lent a hand in the compiling of the Anglo-fcSaxon. Chronicle.

The famous British statesman, William Pitt, would not have felt flattcricid if he had known that future gener‘ations were going to involve him with the delicate intrigues during the reign of Queen Alary. He has been called an explorer who in the end was beheaded. The same imformant, however, comes a bit nearer to the truth, when she says that, he did. a great deal of good for England. Geography is cvidentally not the strong suit of one girl, who informs the examiner that the Rangitikci River is a river that flowed out from the West Coast and went inland.

The Order of the British Empire cannot be such a great honour after all. The construction that has been put on its real meaning is that it has to do with the old batchelors of England, which perhaps is quite true.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness. One girl well aware of this, gives further proof of her knowledge by adding: “We begin the week with {Sunday. The next day is Alon day, most people’s washing day.”

Those conversant with the French language woukl hardly accept this as a free translation of the phrase “Uno omelette de bonne meinc ” —a goodlooking omelette. The dignity of the forces of the law has suffered a blow. P.O, according to another bright individual means Police Cops, while “A bolt from the blue,” is said to mean, to run away from a policeman. Mr IT G. Wells is an author, but if all authors are what a certain young lady says they are, then he must wish be was something else, and apparently authorship is a profession worse than law. According to one young lady a fictitious character is one who writes.

The Darien scheme is alleged to have been invented by William Patterson. It was of course invented only for unhealthy people.

If copra could bo used for the purposes another girl says it could, it Would be much cheaper to die, and motor cars would be given away with a pound of butter. Her answer to a question on the uses of copra, was that it was used for making tombstones and the inside of motor cars.