“Where there is a will there is a way.”
“According to a Pittsburg telephone manager,” says
_Telephony_, “the telephone was put to a novel and unusual
use in Washington County recently, enabling two boys, sons
of farmers, to hold their positions in their classes in the
public schools from which they will graduate in another year.
Incidentally, the patience and long-suffering of the country
school-teacher was put to an admirable test. Smallpox broke out
in the neighborhood in question, and the two scholars were among
the early victims. The home was quarantined, and there was every
indication that the instruction which they had been receiving
would be cut off for an indefinite period. But the teacher was
resourceful and willing. He called up the stricken home one
evening and proposed that the boys study their lessons as usual,
and he would hear them over the telephone. The idea was eagerly
received. Each evening they took down the receiver, and the
teacher, located several farms away, heard them recite. Neither
suffered to an appreciable degree through their absence from
school, and their chances for graduation are just as bright as
before the disease entered their home.” (Text.)
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See MEDICAL MISSIONS.
=Resources, American=--See WASTE.