Oct. 22, 1915. 
PARENT-TEACHER 
Meetinc at MANCHESTER—‘THE 
HiIppDEN TREASURE” SUBJECT OF 
ADDRESS. 
HE Manchester Parent-Teacher as- 
sociation met Wednesday evening 
at the Price school for the first time 
this season. Mrs. Seddie Follett, the 
president, opened the meeting, and 
accepted the reports of the treasurer 
and the secretary. The secretary also 
read an announcement of a series of 
concerts, to be called the Arbella Con- 
certs, which are to held at Town hall 
during the winter months. Season 
tickets are $1.50, single tickets, 25 
cents, and they may be procured from 
Mrs. F. G. Cheever, or from Miss 
Benne Clarke of the local corps of 
school teachers. Upon the number 
of tickets sold will depend to a cer- 
tain degree the quality of the music, 
and it is hoped that the public spir:t 
of Manchester will be such that these 
concerts may be made more than 
ordinarily successful, not only for 
this season, but for the years to come, 
_ the first concert will be held Nov. ©. 
A letter from Mrs. Higgins, State 
President of the Parent-Teacher as- 
sociation, congratulating the Mass. 
branches for their high standards 
and ideals, which have won for them 
almost a national reputation, was an 
inspiration for even more active work 
for this season. In this letter Mrs. 
Higgins spoke of the coming confer- 
ence at Quincy, to be held Oct. 28, 
29, and 30, and she expressed the 
hope that large delegations would at- 
tend. Mrs. Follett appointed Miss 
Fannie Knight as a delegate from 
Manchester, and announced that this 
branch is entitled to six more repre- 
sentatives. She invited anyone inter- 
ested to talk with her about it. 
The Parent-Teacher association was 
fortunate to have such a man as Rev. 
U. S. Milburn of Salem as its speak- 
er at the opening night. Rev. Mr. 
Milburn spoke on “The Hidden 
Treasure,” which he defined as the 
potential beauty of character that is 
latent in every child. He spoke first 
of the home and its influence upon 
the boy or girl of impressionable 
years. The greatest treasure of child- 
hood is a home, which will be recall- 
ed in later years as “The House with 
the Golden Windows.” 
Every child is a treasure of raw 
material, which must be molded, re- 
fined and purified to develop its 
greatest worth. Education is the 
only thing that can do this. “Educa- 
tion,” said Rev. Mr. Milburn, “is not 
grafting something onto the child 
from an external source, but is the 
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development of what is potentially 
within the child. The things that 
make a lasting impression are not 
those things that are learned by rote, 
but those that are developed from 
within. Don’t cram the child’s mind, 
help it to expand. Be glad when 
your child asks questions. It is the 
normal and healthy condition of 
mind; the child ‘wants to know.’ ” 
How shall the raw material be de- 
veloped? The speaker said that 
neither parents nor teachers can im- 
part, which is to teach, something 
that they themselves do not possess, 
whether it be mathematics or honesty, 
The lack of knowledge or of any 
quality cannot be hidden from the 
child, who “has a vision that pierces 
every cloak that Hyprocrisy puts on.” 
A strong, virile love that recognizes 
no obstacles, is the means to train, 
purify and refine the treasure that 
rests in every child. | The ‘speaker’s 
comment on corporal punishment was 
unmistakably spoken in a _ poem, 
which he read, by Robert G. Inger- 
soll. i 
Rev. Mr. Milburn closed his talk 
with a few words about the things to 
which we ordinarily give little ac- 
count, but which make a lasting im- 
print, a deep impression on the plastic 
tender mind of a child. His address 
was one of the finest the Parent- 
Teacher audiences have listened to, 
and he was given a rising vote of 
thanks. 
The Orpheus club furnished the 
music for the evening, and played the 
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