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School Girls Drinking Milk. Pencil on paper. 7 ½ by 6. 2003. From a drawing by Henry Darger that I found in a library book. Henry's girls didn't have buttons.

I remember school milk in half-pint glass bottles with paper caps that pulled off with a pop. Before our obsession with throw-away containers and paranoia about poisons. At home, the milk-man delivered milk in glass quarts. If it wasn't homogenized you could see the two or three inches of separated cream at the top. In winter if the milk was left too long on the door step or in the milk chute it froze and a neck of solid cream pushed up with the little paper cap on top.

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