Show THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL did you stand on the platform in in a little country school house and make your first attempt at speaking pieces by stammering out scarce expect one of my age to appear in public on the stage or many fishes in a brook daddy catchen cat catch chem em with a hook it was tile the last day of school and mothers fathers and friends had come to hear the dialogues and recitations in which the teacher had so carefully trained the children you were one of the youngest and made your initial bow with the same classic halt dozen lines that most beginners used after the sp eakin was over you and your schoolmates told the teacher goodbye good bye and went home tor for the long summer vacation the last day of 0 school celebration is a good old american institution that ought not to be abandoned it was an expression of good will and neighborliness a community gathering very much worth while of 0 course it can be made somewhat different now none of us older folk care to say that it can be made better it is so easy to hop into the auto and run over to the schoolhouse for that last afternoon school work Is different the children I 1 have more poems games dialogues music and drawings to show their elders and they meet grown folk more naturally the teacher is not under the strain of making a show of it but can have a school at home day whether you are a patron of a one room school or a good big consolidated school by all means try to keep up the old fine custom of a last day of school on |