"The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Thursday, December 4, 1902 TOOK AFTER THE O'BRIENS. >From the New York Times. As the teacher shut the desk drawer with a vindictive snap, she decided that Robbie McGIBBON's day had come. Either Mrs. McGIBBON would present herself on the morrow and discuss means by which Robbie would be induced to behave more like an ordinarily bad boy and less like an imp incarnate or she would have the pleasure of the young man's society at home for an indefinite period. To be brief, the irate teacher decided she would have him suspended. With this end in view, she sent to an upper class room for Robbie's elder sister. To this maiden would be delegated the task of reciting Robbie's enormities at home. The teacher knew that this proceeding was not in accordance with ethical doctrines, but her written complaints had been met with such consistent silence as to arouse the suspicion that reading script was a lost art in the McGIBBON family. Robbie's female relative showed great lack of family spirit, inasmuch as she agreed heartily in the rather sweeping condemnation of her unregenerate brother. "Oh, yes, ma'am," she said earnestly, worst boy on the whole block. Me mother says he can't help it. She says he just takes after the O'BRIENs." "Are the O'BRIENs your father's people?" asked the teacher, scenting a family row. "Oh, no, ma'am," returned the unsisterly sister. "They are the people who live upstairs." ======================================================