Here's one I'll bet you haven't seen ....

I just ran across this .... haven't seen it for years!!! Before Dad/Great Papa became ill, he gave his desk to Tom. It was fairly emptied out, but in the back of a drawer file look what we found!! Can you find school boy Charles??
Finding this picture reminds me of a story he used to tell about his first day of school. In the above picture Charles is much older, but on the first day of first grade, when he was finally old enough to go to school with his big brothers, Brown and Burt, his mother dressed him in little navy blue wool short pants with little navy blue wool suspenders. Just as the bell rang to go home and everyone stood up, little Charles stay seated. He had been too afraid to raise his hand and asked to go to the bathroom and he had wet his pants. The fabric dye were not colorfast like we have today ... and when he did get up his legs were streaked with navy blue dye ... and he had to walk all the way home like that. Poor little boy!
By the way - I am sure you can spot Charles in the picture, but if you aren't sure he is5th from the left in the front row. Some of those little guys look like ruffians to me. Wouldn't you love to know who they and what their lives were like. Even if they had lived to be 100, they would all be gone by now. The little girl - second from the left in white looks so familiar ... I wonder if she was a cousin or something. Anyone recognize her??