"SOMETHING TO LRARN"
The small boy agreed willingly enough
jlast May to a change of schools, from a
[private school for boys to a small town
I public school. Secretly, he probably
ihoped that he might move to a school
'where they did not bothei to teach read
ing, writing, arithmetic or social stud
lies -those subjects that get in " the way
[of a really good time at school. Ho
iworit off happily enough the first day,
•but on his return he howled, "You know
:something awful about that school? It
:has GIRLS."
This was about the only thing in sc
hool that impressed the somil boy for
;some weeks. All his reporting concerned
these incredible intruders into a mans
.world - girls. One of them - the names
were never remembered - cried when she
:got an ink blot on a map of New York.
'Another actually told the teacher that
she liked school and her homework, and
still another told all she had the high
est marks in the whole calss when the
marks came out.
It was some weeks before this sort of
.impersonal reporting on what might have
been a recently discovered barbarian
tribe stopped. It stopped because there
was football at the noon recess, and
:shop work, and cub scouts. There was
I'll so the Discovery, made almost daily,
jthat anyone who spelled Mississippi with
more than four "s's" had to stay after
ischool till he had written that word 50
itimes, In all these activities and dis
coveries there was no mention of girls.
They had at last been put in there pro
per place, where many adult males have
•often found it hard to keep them—accep
ted then ignored.
: Then at dinner one night, the small
'boy said, nYou know something? I think
girls are useful. You take a boy - ho
•knows about football and ten-ton trucks
and cowboy shooting and how to use a
yjscknife, but what does a girl know?
Nothing IM He added that he‘ had spent
his noon recess teaching a girl named
Pauline to throw a football and that
Pauline seemed eager to learn and she
told.him how well he threw.it. The small,
i h9.on„t ...top., .next ...column)..
•boy continued, "and thats why girls are ,
useful. You can teach’em things, thats ;
what you can do with girls."
- A small boy has so very, very much to
learn. ..... !
A1 Stein II
FROM THE OL* SOURDOUGH'S NATURE NOTEBOOK :
(con’t from page 3)
reading my polish, also to his wife for :
putting up with us on these evenings.
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geles, stop in and see me at the Navy |
Recruiting Station on Figuero Street,
Just come in and ask for the 01 * Sour-^^
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He went to a local hospital where he was j
treated, for a . fractured left arm,
a
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! and face cuts requiring 79 stitches.
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j in Three Rivers, Mich.,why he rammed his j
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