The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-20
MILTON LEARNS
ABOUT SCHOOL
HILDA RICHMOND

Milton went with the other members
of the family to see big Brother Har-
ris graduated from college. Milton
was only in the first grade, so it
seemed a long way, from every point
OF view, from the schoolhouse near his
home to the big group of college build
ings with hundreds of young men and
women. There were flowers and good
times and speeches and music and so
many unusual happenings that Milton
was little confused
"Is college always as nice as this ?"
he asked.
mo, college is long period of hard
work, Buddy" said big Brother Harris.
"This is kind of picnic or good time
to finish this school, just as you have a
picnic on the last day of your school"
"But Pll have to go back pretty
soon, and you WON'T" said Milton.
"Mother said so. She said you had
finished college"
Milton was not lazy any more than
other little boys are lazy, and he loved
Miss Ellen, his teacher, but it seemed
very hard to think he would have to
go to school until he was as big and
as strong as Harris. Of course it
would be nice to have the good times
and everybody happy when school was
done, but it was long way off. He
looked up at tall Harris and gave a
little sigh, but nobody heard the sigh,
and if they had heard they would not
have known what it was about.
The next day he came running into
the house, breathlessly. "Mother!
Mother! What do you think? Dan told
me that Miss Ellen is going to school
this summer. Why, Mother, Miss Ellen
knows everything" he said.
eyes, most teachers go to school in
summer, Milton," said his busy mother.
"They learn new things there"
20 dear! thought school was done
when folks grew up" said Milton.
"Mother, may l go over to Grand
fathers and see him work in his gar
den?"
Permission being given, Milton soon
covered the short intervening distance,
but he did not see Grandfather in the
garden, and Grandmother told him
that he was not at home. "He has
gone to a lecture-one of a course of
lectures on gardening, Milton," said
GRANDMOTHER. "You know he is anxious
to win the prize for his dahlias this
fall, so he wants to learn all he can
about them"
"What is course of lectures,
Grandmother ?"
"Well, it's like school, a school for
big people, Milton. You see, our min
ster goes away to summer school
every summer, and the doctors must
learn new things, and they even have
schools for people who work in stores.
There is always something new to
learn.''
"Then I'll have to go to school as
long as live" and Milton actually be-
gan to cry. eff all the rest go, I'll have
to co." he sobbed.
Before his tears were dried, but
after Grandmother had explained that
grown people went to school because
they wanted to go and the would prob
ably always want to go, his friend
Kenneth came running in a find Mil
ton. "What do you think, Milton ?" he
said, almost out of breath, Roberts
big brother is going to start little
school down by the river and will
teach us to swim and fish and make
bird houses. You mother said you could
go if you wanted to. Hurry, or we shall
miss something"
And when the delightful lesson was
over, Milton confded to his mother
that he had learned about school for
big that morning, and if it was as nice
as the first grade and the lessons the
college student had taught them in the
class by the river, he wanted to go to
school all his life.
"And so you shall, Milton" she an
swered. at is Gods plan that every
one shall learn and grow in under
standing as long as he lives, and you
II, Ill