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project7            ,a ,girl's ,student 
,days and ,after  ,by  ,,jeannette      
,,marks1 ,m4 ,a4  7,wellesley7  ,with an
 ,introduction by ,,mary ,,emma         
,,woolley1 ,,ll4 ,d4 ,president of ,mt4 
,holyoke ,college  ,new ,york ,chicago  
,toronto ,fleming ,h4 ,revell ,company  
,london and ,edinburgh  ,copyright1     
#aiaa1 by ,,fleming ,h4 ,,revell        
,,company  ,new ,york3 #aeh ,fifth      
,avenue ,chicago3 #abe ,north ,wabash   
,ave4 ,toronto3 #be ,richmond ,street1  
,w4 ,london3 #ba ,paternoster ,square   
,edinburgh3 #ajj ,princes ,street       
,inscribed to ,,mary ,,emma ,,woolley1  
,,ll4 ,d4     ,introduction   ,the      
school and college girl is an important 
factor in our life to-day4 ,around her  
revolve all manner of educational       
schemes1 to her are open all kinds of   
educational opportunities4 ,there was   
never an age in which so much thought   
was expended upon her1 or so much       
interest felt in her development4       

,there are many articles written and    
many speeches delivered on the          
responsibility of parents and           
teachers--it may not be amiss           
occasionally to turn the shield and show
 that some of the responsibility rests  
upon the girl herself4 ,after all1 she  
is the determining factor1 for buildings
 and equipment1 courses and teachers    
accomplish little without her           
coperation4  ,it is difficult for the   
new girl1 whether in school or college1 
to realize the extent to which the      
success of her school life depends upon 
herself4 ,in a new environment1         
surrounded by what seem to her          
multitudes of new faces1 obliged to meet
 larger demands under strange and       
untried conditions1 she is quite likely 
to go to the other extreme and          
exaggerate her own insignificance4      
,sometimes she is fortunate enough to   
have an older sister or friend to help  
her steer her bark through these untried
 waters1 but generally she must find her

 own bearings4  ,to such a girl1 the    
wise hints in the chapters which follow 
this introduction are invaluable1 giving
 an insight into the meaning of         
fair-play in the classroom as well as on
 the athletic field2 the relation       
between physical well-being and academic
 success2 the difference between the    
social life that is re-creative and that
 which is nerves-creative2 the          
significance of loyalty to the school   
and to the home2 the way in which school
 days determine to a large degree the   
days that come after4 ,these1 and many  
other suggestions1 wise and forceful1 ,i
 commend not only to the new girl1 but  
also to the old girl who would make her 
school and college days count for more  
both while they last and as preparation 
for the work that is to follow4         
,,mary ,e4 ,,woolley4            ,mt4   
,holyoke ,college1     ,south ,hadley1  
,massachusetts4     ,,contents   ,a     
,,word ,,to ,,the ,,wise                
#ac  ,i4 ,,the ,,ideal ,,freshman       

#ag  ,,ii4 ,,the ,,girl ,,and ,,the     
,,school                     #be  ,,iii4
 ,,friendships                          
#cc  ,,iv4 ,,the ,,student',s ,,room    
#da  ,v4 ,,the ,,tools ,,of ,,study     
,,and ,,their ,,use             #ed     
,,vi4 ,,the ,,joy ,,of ,,work           
#fa  ,,vii4 ,,fair-,,play               
#gj  ,,viii4 ,,the ,,right ,,sort ,,of  
,,leisure                 #gh  ,,ix4    
,,the ,,outdoor ,,runway                
#hh  ,x4 ,a ,,girl',s ,,summer          
#ii  ,,xi4 ,,from ,,the ,,school ,,to   
,,the ,,girl                #ajg  ,,xii4
 ,,the ,,work ,,to ,,be                 
#aae     ,a ,word to the ,wise   ,we    
train for basket-ball1 golf1 tennis or  
for whatever sport we have the most     
liking4 ,is there any reason why we     
should not use the same intelligence in 
the approach to our general school life8
 ,is there any reason why we should make
 an obstacle race1 however good and     
amusing exercise that may be1 out of all
 our school life8 ,we don't expect to   

win a game with a sprained wrist or     
ankle1 and there really is no reason why
 we should plan to sprain the back of   
school or college life by avoidable     
mistakes4  ,the writer believes in the  
girl who has the capacity for making    
mistakes1--that headlong1 energetic     
spirit which blunders all too easily4   
,but the writer knows how much those    
mistakes hurt and how much energy might 
be saved for a life that1 with just a   
pinch less of blunder1 might be none the
 less savoury4 ,school and college are  
no place for vocal soloists1 and after  
some of us have sung so sweetly and so  
long at home1 with every one saying1    
,just hear ,mary sing1 isn't it         
wonderful6 it is rather trying1 you     
know1 to go to a place where vocal solos
 are not popular4 ,and we wish some     
one--at least ,i did--had told us all   
about this fact as well as other facts  
of school life4 ,anyway it should be a  
comfort to have a book lying on the     
table in our school or college room1 or 

at home1 which will tell us why ,mary1  
after having been a famous soloist at   
home made a failure or a great success  
in chorus work at school4 ,such a book  
is something like having a loaded gun in
 readiness for the robber4 ,we may never
 use the shotgun or the book but they   
are there1 with the reassuring sense of 
shot in the locker4  ,it is something1  
is it not1 to have a little book which  
will tell you how to get into school and
 how to get out 7for at times there seem
 to be difficulties in both these       
directions7--in short1 to tell you      
something of many things3 your first    
year at school or college1 your part in 
the school life1 the friendships you    
will make1 your study and how to work in
 it1 the pleasure and right kind of     
spirit involved in work1 the quiet      
times1 as well as the jolly times1      
out-of-doors1 your summers and how to   
spend them1 what the school has tried to
 do for you2 and1 as you go out into the
 world1 some of the aspects1 whether you

 are to be wife1 secretary or teacher1  
of the work which you will do4 ,of one  
thing you may be certain2 that behind   
every sentence of this little book is   
experience1 that here are only those    
opinions of which experience has made a 
good1 wholesome zwieback4  ,i wish to   
take this opportunity to thank my       
friend1 ,mrs4 ,belle ,kellogg ,towne1   
editor of ,the ,girls' ,companion and   
,young ,people's ,weekly1 ,chicago1 for 
her coperation in allowing me to use    
half the material in this little book2  
also ,dr4 ,c4 ,r4 ,blackall1 of         
,philadelphia4  ,camp ,runway4 ,j4 ,m4  
,i  ,,the ,,ideal ,,freshman   ,freshman
 year1 the beginning year1 the year of  
new experiences1 new delights1 new work1
 new friends1 new surroundings2 the year
 that may mean much to a girl1 that may 
answer some of the questions that have  
lain long in heart and mind1 that will  
surely reveal her more clearly to       
herself1 that may make her understand   
others better and help her to guess     

something of the riddle of the years to 
come6  ,what has the student done to get
 ready for this year8 ,if she were going
 camping she would know that certain    
things were necessary to make the       
expedition a success4 ,with what        
excitement and pleasure1 what thoughts  
of jolly camp-fires1 deep1              
sweet-smelling forests1 and long days   
afoot1 she would prepare everything4    
,she would not let any one else do this 
for her1 for that would mean losing too 
much of the fun4 ,but the freshman year1
 what about the thinking and planning   
for that1 also an expedition into a new 
world1 and a veritable adventure of a   
vast deal more importance than a few    
days or weeks of camping8 ,would she    
enter forests upon whose trees the      
camp-fires throw many shadows1 follow   
the stream that cleaves its way through 
the woods1 go along the runway of deer  
or caribou or moose1 with a mind to all 
intents and purposes a blank8 ,no1 her  
mind would be vivid with thoughts and   

interests4  ,with the same keen         
attention should she enter the new year 
at school or college1 and as she passes 
through it1 thinking about all that     
comes to her1 she will find it growing  
less and less difficult and more and    
more friendly4 ,she will consider what  
the freshman year is to be like1 think  
of what sorts of girls she is to meet   
and make friends with1 what the work    
will be1 what she may expect in good    
times from this new adventure1 and1     
thoughtful about it all1 make the       
minimum of mistakes and get the maximum 
of benefit4  ,here come some of the     
girls who are entering school and       
college with her--bright-haired1        
dark-haired1 rosy or pale1 tall and     
thin1 fat and short1 clever and average1
 desirable and undesirable1--in fact1   
all sorts and conditions of girls4 ,who 
is to be the leader of them all8 ,she is
 the ideal freshman1 a nice1 well-set-up
 girl who does not think too much of    
herself1 who is not self-conscious1 and 

who does not forget for what she is sent
 to school4 ,despite the temptations of 
school life she uses her days wisely and
 well4 ,she does not isolate herself1   
for she sees the plan and value of the  
recreative side of school-days4 ,she is 
already laying the foundations for a    
successful1 useful1 normal existence1   
establishing confidence at the outset   
and not handicapping herself through her
 whole course by making people lose     
their faith in her4 ,our ideal freshman 
may be the girl who is to do            
distinguished work2 she may be the      
student who does her best2 and because  
it is her best1 the work1 though not    
brilliant1 is distinguished by virtue of
 her effort4 ,she may be the girl who is
 to make a happy home life through her  
poise and earnestness and common sense4 
,whoever she is1 in any event in        
learning to do her best she is winning  
nine-tenths of the battle of a          
successful career4 ,it is she1          
attractive1 able1 earnest1 with the     

fair-play or team-play spirit in all she
 does1 true to herself and to others1   
whom every school wants1 whose          
unconscious influence is so great in    
building up the morale of any school4   
,mark this girl and follow her1 for she 
is worthy of your hero worship4  ,this  
is the girl who goes into school in much
 the same spirit that she would enter   
upon a larger life4 ,she is not a prig  
and she is not a dig1 but she knows     
there are responsibilities to be met and
 she meets them4 ,she expects to have to
 think about the new conditions in which
 she finds herself and to adjust herself
 to them1 and she does it4 ,she knows   
the meaning of the team-play spirit and 
she takes her place quietly on the team1
 one among many1 and both works and     
plays with respect for the rights and   
positions of others4 ,it is in the      
temper of the words sometimes stamped   
upon the coins of our country--,e       
,pluribus ,unum--that she makes a       
success of her school life4 ,she knows  

that not only is our country bigger than
 any one of its states1 but also that   
every school is bigger than any one of  
its members whether teacher or student4 
,in a small family at home conditions   
have been more or less made for her1    
just as they are for other girls4 ,yet  
she knows that the school life is       
complicated and complex1 and it is      
impossible for her to feel neglected    
where a more self-centred or spoiled    
girl fails to see that in this new life 
she is called upon to play a minor part 
but nevertheless a part upon which the  
school must rely for its esprit de      
corps4 ,she goes with ease from the     
somewhat unmethodical life of the home  
to the highly organized routine of the  
school because she understands the      
meaning of the word team-play4 ,she has 
the coperative spirit4  ,yet there are  
other girls1 too1 in this school which  
the freshman is entering4 ,there is the 
student who errs on the side of leading 
too workaday a life1 and in so doing has

 lost something of the buoyancy and     
breadth and snap which would make her   
associations and her work fresher and   
more vigorous4 ,the ,grind1 she has been
 called1 and if she recognize herself in
 this sketch1 let her take care to reach
 out for a bigger and fuller life than  
she is leading4 ,and there is1 too1 the 
selfish student whose class-spirit is   
self-spirit2 and the girl who is not    
selfish but who uses herself up in too  
many interests1 dramatic1 athletic1     
society1 philanthropic and in a dozen   
others4 ,she is probably                
over-conscientious1 a good girl in every
 way1 but in doing too much she loses   
sight of the real aim of her school     
life4 ,to these must be added another   
student1--the freshman who skims the    
surface1 and is1 when she gets out1     
where she was when she entered--no1 not 
quite so far along1 for she has slipped 
back4 ,she is selfish1 relying upon the 
patience and burden-bearing capacity of 
her father and mother1 as well as the   

school4  ,no doubt every girl would meet
 her obligations squarely if she        
realized what was the underlying        
significance of the freshman year2 the  
school life would surely be approached  
with a conscientious purpose4 ,what a   
girl gets in school will much depend    
upon what she has to give4 ,no girl is  
there simply to have a good time or     
merely to learn things out of books4    
,nor is she there to fill in the interim
 between childhood and young womanhood1 
when one will go into society1 another  
marry1 and a third take up some         
wage-earning career4 ,no1 she is there  
to carry life forward in the deepest1   
truest sense2 and the longer she can    
have to get an education and to make the
 best of the opportunities of school and
 college life1 the richer and fuller her
 after-years will be4 ,both middle life 
and old age will be deeper and stronger4
 ,let us think about these girls1 let us
 think about what it means to be a      
freshman1 and so lessen our difficulties

 and increase our pleasures2 let us have
 a big conception1--a large ideal always
 at heart--of what the first year should
 be1 and beginning well we shall be the 
more likely to end well4     ,,ii  ,,the
 ,,girl ,,and ,,the ,,school   ,inside  
school or college the girl is in several
 ways responsible for the atmosphere4   
,merely in her conversation she can be  
of service or dis-service4 ,it may be   
simply a good joke which she is telling1
 but if the joke misrepresents the      
school she will1 perhaps1 do lasting    
harm4 ,if she is hypercritical--and     
there is nothing so contagious as       
criticism--she influences people in the 
direction of her thought2 she sets a    
current of criticism in motion4 ,a      
student frequently gives vent to an     
opinion that is only half-baked--it is  
well1 by the way1 to make zwieback of   
all our opinions before we pass them    
around as edible--about courses and     
instructors4 ,she does not realize that 
some opinions to be worth anything must 

be the result of a long process of      
baking1 that a nibble from the corner of
 a four months' or nine months' course  
will not1 however understandingly it may
 be ,fletcherized1 tell you whether the 
course is going to be fruit cake1       
meringue or common soda crackers4 ,she  
may think that she herself is so        
unimportant that what she says can't    
matter1 or she may not mean what she    
says and be merely letting off steam4   
,nevertheless her influence is exerted4 
,some one showed an old lady1 who had   
never been known to say anything in the 
least critical of any human being1 the  
picture of a very fat man prominent in  
public life4 ,she looked at it a moment1
 and then said sweetly3 ,my1 isn't he   
plump6 ,if only there were more old and 
young ladies like that dear soul6       
,there is another kind of conversation  
which may not be ill-natured and yet    
does harm4 ,idle gossiping1 talking     
about things that are not worth while or
 speculating about affairs which are not

 our business and of which we know      
little or nothing4 ,akin to this is     
fashionably slangy conversation         
concerning the latest thing in books1   
magazine articles1 trivial plays4 ,for  
even the tone of school or college      
conversation a student is responsible4  
,she can make her school seem cheap or  
cultivated4 ,the remarks which visitors 
overhear as they go from room to room or
 from building to building are likely to
 indicate the tone of an institution4 ,a
 catalogue may say all it pleases about 
a school but in the end the school is   
judged by the women it educates and     
sends out1 even as a tree is known by   
its fruit4 ,cultivated1 strong women are
 worth more in advertisement than all   
the printed material in the world1      
however laudatory4  ,when a girl has    
received everything her ,alma ,mater has
 to give1 she has no right to be untrue 
to its fundamental aims and ideals1 or  
to misrepresent it in any way1 either by
 what she says or by her own behaviour4 

,every student in a large institution is
 in a sense a pensioner4 ,no student can
 pay for what is given to her4 ,is it   
not a poor return for her to be         
reflecting dishonour rather than honour 
upon her school8  ,there is a certain   
social selfishness in the way some      
students take their opportunities for   
granted without realizing that there are
 thousands and hundreds of thousands of 
girls who would give all that they      
possess for a tithe of such riches4     
,also1 because of the sacrifice which is
 being made for them at home girls are  
selfish in taking their school or       
college life carelessly4 ,the school has
 to bear much of the responsibility for 
the individual failure4 ,but of this the
 student who is failing rarely thinks4  
,parents hold an institution to blame if
 it does not do for their child what    
they expect it to do1 when it may be the
 girl who is at fault4  ,in the use she 
makes of her portion of inheritance1 in 
the gift the school bestows on the      

student1 there is a large social        
question involved4 ,the school gives her
 of its wealth1 the result of the       
accumulation of years and of the civic  
or philanthropic spirit of many men and 
women4 ,this1 if the girl's sense of    
responsibility is what it should be1 she
 feels bound to increase and hand on4   
,it is the old noblesse oblige under new
 conditions of privilege4  ,while she is
 still in school the girl discharges    
part of this obligation by realizing    
what is best for her school as an       
institution4 ,a college or a big school 
is no place for vocal soloists4 ,its    
life is the life of an orchestra1 of    
many instruments playing together4 ,the 
student's sense of responsibility is    
shown by her attitude towards the       
corporate government and administration 
of the school4 ,instead of regarding the
 laws of her school as natural enemies1 
chafing against them1 making fun of them
 or evading them if possible1 she has a 
duty in fulfilling them4 ,the           

consciousness of this responsibility is 
the very heart and soul of the student  
self-government movement1 for it        
recognizes not only the obligation      
placed upon its members by an           
institution1 but also the wide influence
 one girl may have on others4 ,student  
government knows that upper class girls 
can determine the spirit of the under   
classes4 ,even looking at the matter    
from the lightest point of view1        
respectful and law-abiding ways are     
always well-bred ways4  ,when a student 
becomes an alumna she can discharge a   
large part of her great responsibility  
by realizing that it is not any longer  
so much a question of what her school   
can give her as of what she can give to 
her school4 ,one thing she can always   
give it--that is1 kindly judgment4 ,and 
she can acknowledge that her ideas of   
what her ,alma ,mater is after her own  
school-days may not be correct4 ,the    
school1 sad to say1 is sometimes placed 
in the position of the kindly old farmer

 who1 hearing others call a certain man 
a liar1 said3 ,waal now1 ,i wouldn't say
 he wuz a liar4 ,that's a bit harsh4    
,i'd say he handled the truth mighty    
careless-like4 ,schools find that some  
of their alumn handle the truth mighty  
careless-like4  ,while she is still a   
student a girl's service to her school  
lies largely in her daily work1 the     
mental muscle she puts into all that she
 does in the classroom and studies out  
of it4 ,if because of her and a multiple
 of many girls like her1 the college    
does not possess that sine qua non of   
all the higher mental life1 an          
intellectual atmosphere1 it is the      
student's and her multiple's fault4 ,you
 may lead a horse to water but you      
cannot make it drink1 may be an old     
adage1 but it would be hard to improve  
upon it4 ,you may set before students a 
veritable ,thanksgiving feast of things 
intellectual1 but if they have no       
eagerness1 no appetite for them1 the    
feast remains untouched4 ,energy and    

hunger of the mind1 not the anxious     
hosts1 will in the end decide whether   
that feast is or is not to be eaten4    
,the school considers not only          
scholarship but also the sum of all that
 it is1 its culture1 its attainment1 its
 moral force1 as these elements are     
expressed in its living members1 its    
students and its teachers--in short1 its
 idealism4 ,idealism is having one's    
life governed by ideals1 and an ideal is
 a perfect conception of that which is  
good1 beautiful and true4 ,if the girl's
 life is not governed by ideals1 how1   
then1 can the school hope to have its   
idealism live or grow8 ,frequently      
students think of the ideals of college 
or school as of something outside       
themselves1 more or less intangible1    
with which they may or may not be       
concerned4 ,students cannot do their    
institution a greater injury than by    
harbouring such a thought1 for if their 
sense of responsibility will only make  
the idea of the school personal1 then   

indeed will the school be like that     
house upon which the rains descended and
 the winds blew but it fell not1 for it 
was founded upon a rock4     ,,iii      
,,friendships   ,homesickness and       
friendships1 how much and how vivid a   
part they play in the first year1 or    
years1 of school life6 ,an old coloured 
physician was asked about a certain     
patient who was very ill4 ,i'll tell you
 de truf1 was the reply4 ,widout any    
perception1 ,phoebe ,pamela may die and 
she may get well2 dere's considerable   
danger bofe ways4 ,i will tell you one  
truth about the first year of school    
life3 friends there will surely be1 and 
homesickness there is likely to         
be1--there is considerable danger both  
ways4  ,even if a girl has never been   
away from home before1 it is possible   
that she will not suffer from           
homesickness4 ,it is probable1 however1 
that the new surroundings in which the  
girl finds herself1 and the separation  
from those who are the centre of her    

personal life1 will bring on an attack  
of this most painful malady4 ,it takes  
time to fit comfortably into the new    
surroundings1 and meanwhile everything  
is strange4 ,homesickness is not to be  
laughed at1 but it must be less deadly1 
less fatal than some people think it1 or
 there would not be so many recoveries4 
,girls often weep when they enter       
school1 and then after the long dreary  
years are really over1 lived through1   
and the poor forlorn freshman is        
metamorphosed into the senior1 they weep
 again4 ,is it not strange that these   
seniors who wept on entering school     
should weep also when leaving it8 ,it   
looks in the end as if ,phoebe ,pamela  
were sure to get well4 ,yet the effort  
to get well requires a fine effort at   
self-control1--an effort every girl is  
the better for making1 although it may  
take everything plucky in a girl to back
 up her intention to remain in school4  
,the earlier the student considers this 
question of homesickness the better4    

,let her face its possibilities before  
she goes away from home1 and make up her
 mind1 if she is attacked1 resolutely to
 overcome it4 ,if it comes1 let her     
never give up the struggle1 for1 by     
giving in1 she will only lose ground in 
every way1 morally1 socially1           
intellectually4 ,by her cowardice she   
will part with what she can never       
recover later4  ,many temptations follow
 in the wake of homesickness1 and the   
most serious of all is to make friends  
too rapidly4 ,it may be laid down as a  
rule that a friendship formed on this   
stop-gap principle1 and too rapidly1 is 
not likely to endure4 ,such a friendship
 is not a sane or a wise relation1 for  
friendship is like scholarship3 if it is
 worth anything at all it comes slowly4 
,impulsive1 quickly forced friendships  
are not wise investments2 the very fact 
that they come so quickly implies an    
unbalanced state of idealizing1 or lack 
of self-control4 ,this does not mean    
that one is not to form pleasant        

acquaintances from the very beginning of
 the school life4 ,acquaintanceship     
always holds something in reserve and is
 the safest prelude to a deeper and more
 vital friendship4  ,there is no denying
 that there is great temptation to      
violent admirations and attractions in  
school4 ,in the first place1 in school  
or college the girl is brought into     
contact with a large circle of people   
who are immensely interesting to her4   
,the whole atmosphere is full of        
novelty1 of the unusual4 ,some of the   
students and teachers whom she meets for
 the first time represent a broader     
experience1 it may be1 than her own home
 life has given her4 ,they are often new
 types and new types are always         
interesting4  ,i shall say nothing of   
the idealism of friendship--it plays its
 part in other books4 ,it would seem    
sometimes as if almost too much emphasis
 had been placed upon the making of     
friendships in school1--friendship which
 is1 after all1 but a by-product1 the   

most valuable it is true1 nevertheless a
 by-product of the life4 ,wholly        
practical are the tests of friendship   
which ,i shall give4 ,in the first place
 a friend is too absorbing who takes all
 of one's interest to the exclusion of  
everything else3 there should be        
interest in other people1 other         
activities as well as in one's work4    
,such a friendship can only make a girl 
forget for what she has come to school4 
,the new relation which disposes one to 
look with less respect and affection    
upon one's own people and home--and     
they1 be it remembered1 have stood the  
most valuable test of all1 the test of  
time--cannot be a good influence4 ,it   
may be said in general that an          
association which is developing the less
 fine traits in one's character1 giving 
emphasis to the less worthy sides1      
should be relinquished immediately1 even
 at the cost of much heartache4 ,the    
heartache will be only temporary2 the   
bad influence might become permanent4   

,on the other hand1 since friendship is 
giving as well as taking1 one does well 
to consider the fact that if one's own  
part in it does not tell for good1 there
 is just as much reason for stopping the
 friendship where it is4 ,some of these 
associations--and this is a hard saying1
 ,i know--which seem everything at the  
time are nothing1 as the years will     
prove4 ,a girl idealizes1 and idealizes 
those who are not worthy4 ,inevitably   
the day comes when she laughs at        
herself1--if she does not do worse and  
pity herself for having been such a     
goose4  ,only a few of the friendships  
made in school are destined to endure4  
,one of the foremost of those that last 
is founded on similarity of interest4   
,perhaps it is the girl with whom one   
has worked side by side in the          
laboratory1--a relation formed slowly   
and on a permanent basis4 ,many of the  
best of friends have come together      
through community of interests1 and this
 is a type of friendship for which men  

have a greater gift than women4  ,there 
is still another type which develops    
because of some conspicuously noble or  
fine quality which proves attractive4   
,hero worship1 this1 which enlarges     
one's self through the admiration given 
to another4 ,then there is the          
friendship based on a purely personal   
attraction1 with mutual respect and     
self-respect as its dedicated           
corner-stone4 ,this does not mean that  
one cannot see any faults in the friend1
 or know that one's own are seen1       
without losing affection4 ,there is     
always something flimsy and insecure    
about a friendship that simply          
idealizes4 ,any relation should be all  
the stronger for a frank acknowledgment 
of its imperfections4 ,if a girl cares  
enough she will be willing to admit her 
own faults and wish to make herself more
 worthy to be a friend4  ,and1 finally1 
there is what might be called the       
lend-a-hand friendship1--the relation   
that springs into existence because of  

the need which is seen in another4 ,it  
is not fair to make a packhorse of one's
 friend or to turn one's self into the  
leaning variety of plant1 but it is fair
 and wise and right1 if one is strong   
enough to accomplish the end in view1 to
 lend a hand to another girl who is not 
making the best of herself4  ,have a    
good time but do not swear eternal      
allegiance in this first year to        
anybody1 however wonderful she may seem4
 ,hold yourself in reserve1 if for no   
other reason1 then on account of the old
 friends at home1 whether they be kin or
 no-kin1 for they have been true4 ,and  
remember1 as ,i have said before1       
friendship is like scholarship and must 
by its nature come slowly4     ,,iv     
,,the ,,student',s ,,room   ,there has  
been a general improvement in student   
rooms1 yet many rooms to-day have       
altogether too much in them3 too many   
pictures1 too many banners1 too much    
furniture1 too many hangings4 ,the great
 fault of most rooms is this            

overcrowding4 ,if we were only heroic   
enough to make a bonfire of nine-tenths 
of all they contain we should see       
suddenly revealed possibilities for     
something like the ideal room4  ,one    
serious and obvious objection to the    
overcrowding of rooms is the hygienic4  
,i am tempted to say that this is the   
most important objection3 indeed1 since 
health is more important than wealth1 ,i
 will say so4 ,a girl has neither the   
time nor the ability to keep so many    
articles in a room clean3 and while she 
is busy attending to her studies1 some  
cherished ornaments are not only laying 
up dust for the future1 as a more       
regenerate life will lay up treasures1  
but also breeding germs1 perhaps        
collecting the very germs which will    
take this girl away from school or      
college4 ,besides1 bric--brac not only  
gathers dust and breeds germs but also  
wearies the nerves4 ,it makes one tired 
to see so many things about1 and tired  
to be held responsible for them4        

,without realizing it1 we resist the    
amount of space they occupy and in their
 place want the air and sunshine4       
,subconsciously1 most of us long to get 
rid of our bric--brac and then pull down
 the draperies that keep out the        
sunlight4 ,the simpler the window       
draperies in a room1 the more easily    
washed1 the better and more attractive4 
,for wholesome attractiveness there is  
no fabric that can excel a flood of warm
 sunshine4 ,any girl or woman who has   
curtains which she must protect from    
strong light by drawing down the shades 
is guilty of a household sin whose      
greatness she cannot know4 ,that same   
sunshine1 freely admitted1 will do more 
to cleanse a house than all the soap1   
all the brooms1 and even all the vacuum 
cleaners ever invented4  ,the so-called 
beauty of a room should always give way 
before the hygiene of a room4 ,not only 
should the room be sensibly furnished so
 that it may have plenty of air and     
light1 but closets should not contain   

articles of furniture which belong where
 the air can reach them4 ,there is a    
difference between a room that is not   
orderly and one that is not clean4 ,a   
room that contains unclean articles in  
drawers or closets1 unclean floors1     
unclean rugs and hangings and unclean   
walls1 should not be tolerated for an   
instant4 ,if a girl turns a combination 
bedroom and study in school or college  
into a kitchen1 if an ice-cream freezer 
occupies all the foreground of this     
place she calls home1 and chafing-dishes
 with cream bottles1 sardine tins1      
cracker boxes1 paper bags full of stale 
biscuits1 fruit skins1 dish-cloths and  
grease-spotted walls1 all the           
background1 it is impossible to have a  
clean room to live in4  ,the ,golden    
,rule applies to rooms as well as to    
human beings and should read1 ,do unto a
 room as you would it should do unto    
you4 ,and not only for the sake of      
health should this ,golden ,rule for    
,rooms be observed but also for the sake

 of the college or school4 ,the room    
that belongs to us only for a time      
should be as thoughtfully cared for as  
if it were our own personal property4   
,there is something inconsistent1 isn't 
there1 in educating a girl in high      
thinking and fine ideals1 if she is     
willing to live in a room that for      
uncleanliness many a woman in some      
crowded quarter of a city would consider
 a disgrace8 ,such contradiction in mind
 and surrounding is out of harmony with 
all one's ideal for a gentlewoman4  ,not
 only beauty is restful1 peace-giving   
and peace-bringing1 but so1 also1 are   
neatness and order4 ,orderliness helps  
to fit one for work4 ,there is          
undoubtedly some connection between     
surroundings and one's mental state4 ,in
 themselves disorder and confusion are  
irritating4 ,the sight of a dirty child 
crying in the doorway of an untidy house
 suggests some connection between the   
wretchedness of the child and the       
squalor of the home4 ,i often think of  

,william ,morris1 the great craftsman   
and charming poet1 who had much at heart
 the happiness of all people1 especially
 the poor1 and his exclamation1 ,my eye1
 how ,i do love tidiness6 ,to him1 to   
the artist1 it was1 as it is1 beautiful4
 ,george ,eliot had to put even the pins
 in her cushion into some neat          
arrangement before she could sit down to
 write4 ,disorder wastes not only one's 
feelings and health1 it also wastes     
one's time1 for a lot of this commodity 
may be lost in looking for books1 wraps1
 gloves and other things which are not  
put away properly4  ,school ought to be 
a training for the life afterwards4     
,that is why we go to school1 isn't it8 
,why should a girl indulge herself in   
habits which will make against her      
usefulness in the life of the home or in
 whatever circumstance she may be8      
,there is a certain disciplinary value  
in order4 ,every great military school  
has recognized this4 ,laxness in the    
care of one's room may mean the habit of

 laxness in other and more important    
ways4 ,disorderliness indicates a       
certain tendency in character1 and if a 
girl allows that sort of thing to go on 
she is very likely to show it in other  
ways4 ,untidiness in any of one's       
personal habits--and what could be more 
personal than a room8--should be taken  
up and corrected even as one attempts to
 correct any weak point in one's        
character4  ,do you know what is        
always--that is1 if it is in it at      
all--the most beautiful thing in a room8
 ,it is something which the ,creator    
meant all mankind should have1 rich and 
poor1 old and young alike2 it is        
something beyond the buying price of any
 wealth4 ,it is the sunshine1 more      
beautiful1 more valuable than expensive 
hangings that shut it out4 ,perhaps it  
is partly because it is inexpensive1    
,god-given to all people1 that          
housewives frequently draw their        
curtains against it4 ,if they had to pay
 more for it than for carpets and       

hangings1 you may be very sure that a   
great many husbands and fathers would be
 overworking in order that their        
families might buy a whole display of   
sunshine instead of tapestries4  ,do you
 know what is the most helpful thing you
 can have in your room1 the article     
without which you cannot live in it at  
all1 no matter how fine the rugs and    
bric--brac may be8 ,air6 ,air is the one
 thing which is almost instantly and    
absolutely indispensable to human life1 
for we breathe it in not only through   
our noses but also all over our skin4   
,every hundredth fraction of an inch of 
our bodies is feeding upon air1 and the 
purer that air and the cooler the better
 and more invigorating food it provides 
for the skin surface as well as for the 
lungs4 ,the mind1 for it is housed in   
the body and its tenant1 must depend for
 its vigour or tone upon the fresh air  
in school or college study4 ,even a very
 good head cannot work well set upon an 
anmic body which is suffocating for want

 of good clean air4 ,if you wish to do  
your best work and keep well1 the first 
thing to do is not to open your books   
but to open your windows4 ,after that   
the books and a reasonable number of    
hours of continuous study4 ,american    
audience halls1 pullmans1 ordinary      
coaches and public buildings of all     
sorts1 especially libraries1 are        
notoriously overheated and unventilated4
 ,it is the intelligent ,american girl  
and woman who1 beginning with the home1 
will correct this evil4 ,the schools    
are1 on the whole1 in the forefront of  
the fresh air movement1 especially the  
public schools4 ,as every one knows1 the
 public schools are establishing open   
air rooms for their children who need   
them4 ,although there is much to be said
 about what a room should contain to    
make it attractive1 it should never be  
forgotten that sunshine and fresh air   
are more beautiful and more priceless   
than anything else which it can hold4   
,the first object in furnishing a bare  

room is to make it habitable1--that is  
useful4 ,take the kitchen1 for example1 
and usefulness is practically the sole  
object in fitting it up4 ,and the       
curious thing about it all is that it   
cannot help being beautiful in a homely1
 motherly way1 for it exemplifies one of
 the strongest elements of all beauty   
and that is service4 ,the kitchen may be
 a very humble place but if more women  
would make a study of their kitchens and
 then take thought1 it is likely that   
the rest of their houses would be in    
much better taste4 ,a thing that is     
useful1 even as with some well-worn     
homely old woman who has led a good and 
helpful life1 always acquires a beauty  
of its own4 ,it may be hard for girls to
 see this but it is there1 and in time  
it will be seen4 ,just as it is         
essentially more beautiful to have a    
clean1 strong body rather than a pretty 
face and a body that is not what it     
ought to be1 so is it more truly        
beautiful to have articles of furnishing

 in our rooms1 in study or kitchen1 that
 are of indispensable genuine use4      
,take the gaudy ambitious study one girl
 has made for herself4 ,it is defaced by
 the presence of articles of no value at
 all in the world of needs2 there is    
nothing in it that is genuinely         
beautiful and nothing that is           
substantially useful4 ,the furniture is 
almost too cheap to stand on its own    
legs1 and the colours would certainly   
never wash and not even wear4 ,this room
 is a junk-shop of new1 useless1        
unattractive objects of no virtue1--in  
short1 a most unpleasant place in which 
to live4 ,have you ever considered what 
gives even the simplest clothes for     
distinctive occasions a beauty of their 
own8 ,it is fitness4 ,and it is this    
same fitness which tells so much in     
furnishing a room4 ,it might be said of 
certain dresses that they go together1  
that is1 they are harmonious1 they      
belong together1 they have1 like some   
people1 the beauty of agreeing with     

themselves1 and a very desirable sort of
 beauty it is4 ,just as clothes are an  
expression of the people who wear them1 
so are rooms an expression of the people
 who live in them4 ,no well-bred girl   
cares for tawdry1 cheap1 over-ornamented
 clothes4 ,she is made uncomfortable    
even at the very thought of having to   
wear such things4 ,she should suffer    
just as much discomfort on the score of 
a cheaply furnished 7and by cheap here  
,i do not mean inexpensive--whitewash   
and deal intelligently used may create a
 beautiful room71 overcrowded and       
over-ornamented study4  ,what is the    
meaning of the room which is your school
 centre for the time being8 ,it is an   
intimate place where a girl may have her
 friends and good times2 it is a retreat
 and it is a workshop4 ,it is the girl's
 home centre away from home1 the place  
from which she will lead her life1 in   
its expression attractive or            
unattractive1 like her or unlike her4   
,to intend that this room in beauty1 in 

cleanliness1 in order1 shall be the best
 expression possible of the girl's best 
self is the ideal to set for the school 
study4  ,get good materials and good    
colours4 ,they need not be expensive4   
,remember that colours have to go       
together just as furniture has to do so4
 ,to have styles of furniture that clash
 or colours that do not harmonize will  
negative any care which the student may 
have taken in the selection of          
individual pieces or materials4 ,to have
 too much with which to fill the room is
 a good deal worse than not to have     
enough4 ,much better it is to have a few
 things which are just what they should 
be than to have too many and those      
undesirable4 ,to get a desk1 if a girl  
can afford to do so1 that she will be   
glad to keep her life long is a good    
beginning1 and a comfortable chair that 
will be made doubly precious by all the 
school associations woven about it4 ,and
 let her be careful about pictures for  
her walls and not crowd them with cheap 

and fashionable trash4 ,above all1 let  
her remember that good taste1           
simplicity1 careful selection1 will do  
more to assure her the possession of an 
attractive room than all the money in   
the world can do4     ,v  ,,the ,,tools 
,,of ,,study ,,and ,,their ,,use   ,a   
girl ought to take up her study with the
 same sense of pleasure as that with    
which a strong workman enters his shop1 
knowing his tools and able to use them4 
,having good tools and knowing them is  
certainly part of the joy of work4 ,and 
what are the tools the student must use8
 ,well1 for the average student1 the one
 that is first and most important is    
,good ,health4 ,the mind is not as clear
 if the body is not in good health1     
clean within and without4  ,the second  
set of tools consists of a different    
sort of equipment and apparatus1 tools  
with which a girl must become familiar  
and which she must know how to          
use--,books1 ,library1 ,laboratory and  
,classroom4 ,why shouldn't a student be 

just as able to use her books as a      
carpenter his plane or saw8 ,one        
couldn't expect a fumbling carpenter or 
a clumsy seamstress to accomplish much  
work or good work4 ,there are times when
 a girl need not claim to know anything 
but she must1 at least1 know where to   
find what she wants to know4 ,this is   
the first lesson in the use of books2   
without knowledge of them or love for   
them1 the student can't get along at    
all4 ,and beyond this somewhat          
mechanical use of books there is a      
deeper and larger lesson to learn2 to   
know that a book is not merely a page of
 print where information may be sought  
but that it is a mirror in which one    
finds the world1 its wisdom1 its joy1   
its sorrow1 its divine adventures4      
,robert ,southey1 the friend of the poet
 ,coleridge1 has written beautifully on 
the subject in a little poem called ,his
 ,books4  ,another tool in the student's
 workshop is ,previously ,acquired      
,knowledge3 that is1 what one has in    

one's mind4 ,some people's minds are    
junk-shops4 ,but a junk-shop is better  
than an empty shop4 ,this previously    
acquired knowledge1 if used rightly1    
becomes the tool of later courses1 the  
servant of later years4 ,our stored-up  
facts--many of them--have not been an   
end in themselves4 ,how could they be8  
,for example1 such things as paradigms  
and formul and long lists of names and  
dates1 are tools pure and simple2 but   
the student in the workshop must have   
them or she will be like a carpenter who
 had much to do but on coming to his    
bench found no tools there and so was   
idle all day4  ,a fourth tool for the   
girl in her study--one that cannot be   
deliberately acquired1 as information or
 apparatus or even health can be--is    
,experience4 ,this is the most valuable 
tool of all--one's experience of travel1
 with people1 in responsibility1 in     
love1 in joy1 in sorrow1 in any kind of 
work4 ,the girls who are the most       
interesting in the classroom are the    

girls who are not contenting themselves 
with apparatus alone but whose minds are
 flexible with experience1 who bring all
 of themselves1 their life1 to bear upon
 the work4 ,a certain well-known        
minister had prepared a sermon for his  
usual ,sunday engagement1 but half an   
hour before service another text came   
into his mind4 ,he could not forget it1 
so he jotted down notes and preached the
 new sermon instead of the one that had 
been prepared4 ,this sermon made a great
 impression on all who heard it1 and the
 minister himself said of it that some  
people would declare that it had been   
thought out in half an hour1 but that   
really he had put fifty years of his    
life into it4 ,the sharper and better   
the tools1 the finer the character of   
the work4 ,if experience has been       
observed and retained1 and previously   
acquired knowledge is ready for service1
 and hand and mind know how to use      
books1 and the student is in good       
condition physically1 then the          

excellence of that girl's work in the   
class and out can be guaranteed4  ,and  
now what are the uses of the work which 
these tools can accomplish for us8      
,coleridge wrote in his poem1 ,work     
,without ,hope1      ,work without ,hope
 draws nectar in a sieve1     ,and ,hope
 without an object cannot live4  ,the   
only hope that can last is hope that is 
not wholly centred in ourselves1 but has
 some thought for others and our service
 to them4 ,work devoid of inspiration   
and ideals1 work done merely for one's  
self1 study pursued with only a degree  
as an end or for the sake of pay as a   
teacher1 turns school and college into a
 market-place1 a place of barter1 where 
in exchange for so much energy and so   
much money we may acquire a certain     
position and livelihood4 ,only that work
 in which one has the consciousness of  
being1 or becoming1 useful to others1   
brings joy that will endure4 ,what do we
 think of the minister who is without a 
sense of consecration8 ,the             

responsibility of the student or the    
teacher is quite as large1 the          
opportunity for service quite as        
wonderful4 ,one of our greatest ,english
 poets1 ,william ,wordsworth1 exclaimed3
 ,i wish to be considered as a teacher1 
or as nothing6 ,the calling of the      
teacher1 of the student1 has through all
 time been thought a high one1--one that
 has drawn to itself fine and unselfish 
spirits4 ,the life of the student1 no   
matter how necessary to the world its   
market-places are1 never has been and   
never can be a life of barter1 of trade4
  ,the wealth that comes to the student 
should not be an exclusive possession4  
,it may be bought at a large price but  
it can never be sold4 ,it must be given 
away1 or shared1 for it is wealth which 
carries with it a sense of social       
responsibility4 ,it is enjoyed for a    
double purpose1 not only for the sake of
 the happiness it brings to us but also 
for the sake of the joy or help it may  
bring to others4 ,millions of girls     

covet the opportunities that come to a  
few in school and college1 many of them 
who far more greatly deserve this       
privilege than we4 ,indeed1 what have   
most of us done to merit the right to   
all that we have8 ,the only way in which
 we can show our sense of justice is by 
taking our privileges as something to   
share with others4 ,the girl who has    
health1 pleasant surroundings and work  
worth doing1 has all a human being has a
 right to expect4 ,she ought always to  
be happy1 always rejoicing in her work  
and always eager to divide her wealth   
with others4  ,the redeeming feature of 
royalties has been their sense of       
responsibility for their subjects6 ,in  
great disasters1 or calamities1 their   
first thought has been to go to the     
relief of the people4 ,the ,king and    
,queen of ,italy are noble examples of  
this courage and unselfishness4 ,in     
,america the only privileged class is   
the highly educated4 ,it is they from   
whom noblesse oblige must be expected1  

who will show in all emergencies their  
sense of responsibility1 who will share 
all that they have with others4 ,a girl 
will be happy1 she will grow1 she will  
be a leverage power for good with those 
among whom she lives1 only in so far as 
she uses her tools of knowledge in the  
service of others1 and shapes all that  
she does towards some humanly useful    
end4     ,,vi  ,,the ,,joy ,,of ,,work  
,if one is in good condition1 the       
exercise of any physical power is a     
pleasure4 ,it is a pleasure to run1 to  
sing1 to dance1 to climb mountains1 to  
row1 to swim2 it is a pleasure to shout 
for nothing else than for the pure joy  
of letting off surplus energy4 ,in the  
world of animals1 the horse and dog1 to 
take only two illustrations1 abound in  
this enjoyment of physical energy4 ,the 
horse paws the ground and snorts and    
whinnies and loves the fastest road pace
 you will let him take4 ,the dog leaps  
in the air1 jumps fences1 barks1 and    
races around madly1 sometimes after     

nothing at all4  ,but the highest power 
of which human beings are possessed is  
not the power of the body4 ,it is the   
power of the mind4 ,yet many of us      
throughout our school and college life  
not only do not wish to use this power  
but even rebel against it4 ,what1 some  
girls are saying to themselves1 enjoy   
the work of a classroom8 ,who ever heard
 of such a thing6 ,yes1 just that4 ,and 
if we don't enjoy the work of a         
classroom1 even an indifferently good   
one1 there is something the matter with 
us1 or the subject should not have a    
place on any curriculum4 ,every mental  
exercise should be full of the keenest  
pleasure1 of intellectual pleasure4     
,our schools and colleges to-day are    
very much richer in the joy of          
everything else--in beautiful           
surroundings1 in freer and fuller       
athletic and outdoor life1 in a more    
varied and delightful social life--than 
they were fifty or even twenty-five     
years ago4 ,but it is a question whether

 the joy of intellectual work has kept  
pace with this joy of life in its other 
aspects4 ,sometimes it almost seems as  
if intellectual eagerness were in       
inverse ratio to the ease and fullness  
of the opportunities we have4 ,at least 
many fair-minded girls have seen the    
predicament in which the teacher is     
placed4 ,the man who makes a vase for   
the use and pleasure of others may      
rejoice not only in his own workmanship 
but also in the thought of the service  
and delight he is giving to others4     
,that is1 his pleasure is twofold4 ,the 
teacher who is deprived of some response
 of joy in the work he is doing is a    
workman deprived of his rights4 ,to     
those girls who are thinking of becoming
 teachers this should be a sobering     
thought4  ,missionary teachers1 with    
their students eager to get anything    
they have to give1 are not to be pitied4
 ,our schools and their groups of       
teachers in isolated and uncultivated   
parts of the ,west and ,south are not to

 be pitied4 ,even if education is with  
them shorn of much that gives it charm1 
the opportunities that come are prized4 
,students and teachers have intellectual
 joy in the work they do1 and without   
that the greatest university in the     
world might as well1 or better1 be a    
district school1 for then the work done 
would be truly useful4 ,it is the       
teacher who has to put much of her time 
and energy into making a subject        
superficially attractive enough for a   
student to elect it1 who is to be       
pitied4 ,a classroom full of blas girls 
whose minds need to be tickled before   
there is the least expression of        
intellectual mirth upon their faces1 is 
an ordeal not lightly to be met except  
by the professional joker or academic   
tumbler4  ,girls often become impatient 
with themselves1 and that is one reason 
why there is so little joy in work for  
them4 ,think of ,helen ,keller as a     
famous example of this joy in work under
 the most adverse circumstances4 ,what  

could be greater than her handicap8     
,shut away from the world by deaf ears  
and blind eyes and1 for a while1 by     
inability to speak1 she has nevertheless
 shown a keenness of pleasure and       
intellectual acquisition that shames us 
who have all our senses in their        
fullness4 ,think of her patient1        
unremitting delving1 of the digging up1 
up1 up to get to the light which most   
human beings are privileged to enjoy    
with no effort at all6 ,the mind that   
accepts this wealth with no thought1 no 
sense of responsibility1 is a trifler   
with riches that are about us for       
,god-given purposes4 ,think of the way  
in which ,stevenson and ,john ,richard  
,green and ,george ,eliot rose above    
their ill-health and did their work in  
despite of it6 ,perhaps some of us have 
superb health and have never made any   
conscious effort to use that gift for a 
high end4  ,girls grow impatient with   
themselves when they wouldn't be        
impatient with a little child4 ,yet the 

mind has to be trained even as we train 
a child2 it has to be brought back and  
back1 again and again to the thing to be
 done4 ,after the asking of a simple    
question1 oftentimes a whole class will 
look confounded1 because they have some 
strange notion that thinking means      
getting hold of something very far away 
and difficult to grasp4 ,all that the   
first effort in thought denotes is      
taking a hold of that which is nearest  
and following it up4 ,it is the old     
story of ,theseus following his clue of 
thread1 the slender thing in his hand1  
by which he was guided out of the       
labyrinth and to the broad sea of       
adventure4  ,there are difficulties in  
the doing of any work that is worth     
while4 ,it would be a poor adviser who  
painted the student's way as a path of  
roses4 ,first and foremost1 one's own   
inertia interferes with the joy of work4
 ,some one has defined the lazy man as  
one who doesn't want to do anything at  
all1 and the indolent man as one who    

doesn't want to do anything that he     
doesn't want to do4 ,then1 too1 there   
are certain allurements and distractions
 in school life which are a hindrance to
 our joy in an intellectual task4 ,and  
there is the very natural disinclination
 to the drudgery involved in all hard   
labour4 ,no work that is worth while is 
without drudgery4 ,lack of encouragement
 from older people is one serious       
difficulty some girls have to meet4     
,there is a type of older person who is 
sure that using the mind will harm that 
precious article4 ,and1 finally1 there  
is our inexperience1 our own lack of    
comprehension1 our own purposeless and  
formless lives4  ,joy in work should not
 be altogether conditional upon one's   
sense of ease or upon what is called    
success4 ,seeming success is not always 
success4 ,often the most valuable       
lessons come from failures4 ,robert     
,browning1 the poet1 speaks again and   
again of the noble uses of failure4 ,let
 me quote one stanza from one of his    

greatest poems1 ,rabbi ,ben ,ezra3      
,then1 welcome each rebuff     ,that    
turns earth's smoothness rough1         
,each sting that bids nor sit nor stand1
 but go6     ,be our joys three-parts   
pain6     ,strive and hold cheap the    
strain2     ,learn1 nor account the     
pang2 dare1 never grudge the throe6     
,you can't learn to walk if you haven't 
tumbled down a good deal in doing it4   
,it is often failure that means ultimate
 success4 ,of course if a girl keeps on 
saying3 ,oh1 what's the use8 about      
everything she does and all her         
failures1 there isn't any use4 ,in weak 
moments that sort of thing can be said  
of every great and worth-while          
experience1 of love1 of joy1 of sorrow1 
of work4 ,but a girl who allows herself 
to take this attitude is a quitter1 and 
doesn't know the first principles of    
playing the game4  ,part of the joy of  
work consists in the mere delight of    
intellectual exercise1 delight in       
thinking a thing out4 ,that is the way  

we develop ourselves mentally1 just as  
we develop ourselves physically through 
sports4 ,the mind that thinks is capable
 of deeper and broader thinking4        
,thinking begets thought4 ,a muscle that
 is left without exercise softens and   
finally atrophies4 ,the same is true of 
mental muscle4 ,if this strength is left
 unused it is gradually lost and cannot 
be recovered4 ,mental concentration1 the
 thought that is so strenuous that      
everything else is shut out1 strengthens
 the mind4 ,in this wonderful old world 
no new land has been discovered without 
physical effort4 ,there is no country of
 the mind which can be entered without a
 similar effort4  ,and there is another 
and very important joy in work--the     
sense that one is being equipped for the
 work of the world1 for usefulness4 ,the
 mere feeling that one's powers are     
being developed brings joy with it4     
,there is still another joy which every 
one of us must covet--the sense of      
entering into the intellectual riches of

 the world1 its wonders of science and  
art and letters1 with the feeling that  
we have a part in a great treasure1 a   
treasure which1 unlike gold and precious
 stones1 men have never been able to    
gauge or to exhaust4 ,such gold and     
silver as we take from that adventure   
cannot be lost or stolen from us4 ,it   
remains with us to the very last1 and   
with it no life can ever become really  
poor1 or dull1 or old4     ,,vii        
,,fair-,,play   ,few students realize   
how closely a classroom resembles a     
commonwealth4 ,to most of us it seems a 
place into which we go to have a certain
 amount got out of us1 or put into us4  
,this conception of the classroom is    
unworthy the modern girl who has1       
otherwise1 a fine understanding of the  
meaning of team-play1 of playing all    
together for a common end1 a game or a  
republic united by a tacit compact4     
,does the average student feel          
responsibility for the game of          
basket-ball or lawn hockey which she is 

playing8 ,the first thought of the girl 
in answering this is that it was a      
foolish question even to ask4 ,of course
 she does4 ,but for her classroom8 ,no1 
that is a different sort of game1 in    
which the responsibility lies all on the
 shoulders of the instructor4 ,it is a  
one-woman or a one-man game1 and very   
often the students are but spectators1  
cheering or indifferent1 approving or   
disapproving4 ,the pupil does not hold  
herself accountable for this game2 it is
 the teacher who makes the class go1 who
 extracts from each student the         
information bottled up in her1 together1
 often1 with a good deal of carbon      
dioxide1--a process difficult and hard  
as drawing a swollen cork out of a      
soda-water bottle4 ,finally1 with a sort
 of noble rebound of effort1 the        
exhausted instructor is to put a vast   
deal of information back into the girl  
before the student claps her book       
together and rushes pell-mell to the    
next classroom1 there to be similarly   

uncorked1 if the teacher has learned the
 art and her mental muscle is           
sufficient4  ,such a conception of a    
classroom is not fair-play4 ,the        
teacher1 like the coxswain of a college 
crew1 may have rowed over the same      
course and she may know it well enough  
to cover it in the dark2 she may have   
won distinction upon it1 may be the     
fittest person in all the states of the 
,union to cover it again1 but if she has
 not a good or a winning crew to coach1 
she will never win any race1 even the   
shortest4 ,no instructor has shoulders  
equal to such a multiple burden as      
coaching1 steering and doing all the    
rowing1 too4 ,to play any classroom game
 in this spirit is to be dead weight for
 every one else embarked upon the same  
adventure4 ,it is not fair-play4  ,by   
such an attitude on the part of merely  
one student in the class1 every other   
student associated with her loses1 for  
the girl who will not lift her own      
weight the others must carry4 ,if that  

student were playing in that spirit on  
the basket-ball team1 do you suppose    
that the coach1 or the captain1 would   
let her stay on8 ,not for a moment2 off 
she would go and very much humiliated1  
too4 ,if it is a discussion1 the touch  
and go of the whole recitation will     
depend upon the presence of the         
team-play1 or fair-play1 spirit in the  
course4 ,the instructor may do her best 
but if there is no play-the-game in that
 classroom1 she might just as well fold 
up her tent1 like the proverbial ,arab1 
and silently steal away4 ,it is not that
 any recitation need be a brilliant     
affair--if most of them depended upon   
that for existence they would scarcely  
exist at all--but there must be an      
honest1 earnest1 responsible effort to  
make the best of the hour4 ,good will   
inevitably come from the clarifying     
effort to express thought1 and the      
leading from thought to thought as the  
work goes forward4  ,the basket-ball    
team cannot win1 or even play1 unless   

all the members are playing together4   
,each one is needed despite the fact    
that she may not be one of the chief or 
best players4 ,just so does the class   
need all its students4 ,if a girl is    
only average1 it is not fair-play for   
her to sit back and do nothing2 neither 
is it fair-play for her to monopolize   
the attention if she happens to be more 
than commonly able4 ,it is not fair-play
 to laugh at the girl who is at a       
disadvantage1 or to appear bored4 ,it is
 unfair to the individual1 to the       
classroom in general and to the         
instructor4 ,the least she can do in    
this class game is to give her whole and
 her courteous attention4  ,think of all
 the practice games in which the average
 athletic team takes part4 ,what can be 
said for the student who comes into the 
classroom unprepared to lift her own    
weight1 unprepared to help others8 ,when
 one comes to think about it from the   
fair-play point of view there is nothing
 to be said for her4 ,nor is it         

fair-play for a girl to allow herself to
 get into such a state physically that  
she is unable to study4 ,how often and  
often have fudge-heads--due to an       
application to too much sugar and not to
 books--sitting row after row killed a  
school or even a whole college6 ,before 
a class tempered by fudge and not by    
wholesome outdoor living and            
conscientious devotion to work1 the     
teacher might better put away her notes 
and close her book4 ,nothing can happen 
through or over that barricade of       
fudge-heads4  ,and it is not fair-play  
to cram because of time lost1 or for any
 other cause4 ,the only end of cramming 
is that the student soon forgets all    
that has been learned4 ,alone by normal1
 slow acquisition and all the           
associations formed in such learning can
 information come to us to stay4 ,it may
 not be particularly wicked to cram if  
one has plenty of time to waste1 but it 
is foolish unless one has4  ,there is a 
kind of gossip in which a girl takes    

part1 made up of snap-shot judgments of 
the classroom1 idle carping about some  
little unimportant point1 expression of 
wounded vanity and unfair talk1 which   
may mean a tremendous loss of prestige  
for a really admirable course2 it may   
mean that girls1 who would naturally go 
into it because of their liking or gift 
for the work1 do not go or go in a      
critical and unsympathetic attitude4 ,if
 there is a complaint to be made about  
any course it should be made to the     
responsible person concerned1 and that  
is usually the teacher4 ,anything else  
is not fair-play4 ,in the classroom the 
instructor is the coach of the game and 
she is the person with whom to talk4 ,it
 is needless to say that if a girl is   
putting nothing into a course she cannot
 expect to get anything out of it1 or to
 complain because things do not go4 ,if 
she wants them to go why does she not   
help1 and have the profit of taking     
something away from the work as interest
 on her effort8 ,a girl gets dividends  

only from work into which she has put   
some brain-capital4  ,and the people at 
home8 ,is it fair-play to them1 when    
they are making sacrifices of money or  
of happiness to keep the daughter at    
school1 for her not to put good work    
into her study and play her part        
faithfully in the classroom game8 ,so   
many things have to be taken into       
consideration of which we are not likely
 to think4 ,there is the girl herself1  
the other girls with whom she is        
working1 the instructor1 the people at  
home1 the institution that is providing 
an expensive equipment or plant through 
the philanthropic efforts of others or  
the taxation of the public4 ,if the girl
 does not play her part fairly1 there is
 a rather big reckoning against her1 is 
there not8     ,,viii  ,,the ,,right    
,,sort ,,of ,,leisure   ,the right sort 
of leisure ought to help as much in the 
development of the girl as the right    
sort of work4 ,if it is leisure worthy  
the name1 it will bring refreshment2 it 

will not leave one physically and       
mentally jaded4 ,neither mind nor body  
should ever be exhausted because of the 
way in which freedom has been used4     
,leisure is as important to work as work
 is to leisure4 ,a person who has not   
worked cannot appreciate freedom1 while 
the one who has had no leisure is not   
best fitted for work4 ,all work and no  
play makes ,jack a dull boy2 it is just 
as true that it makes ,jill a dull girl4
 ,the girl who works all the time1 not  
realizing the importance of free        
moments1 becomes fagged in body and     
mind4 ,she is a tool that is dull1 and  
would do well to remember that even a   
machine is better for an occasional     
rest4  ,some mistaken ideas about       
leisure have grown up1 making it        
difficult to say anything on this       
subject without being misunderstood4    
,stories--whole books of them--about    
spreads and more or less lawless        
escapades in school and college1 have   
given girls and other people1 too1 the  

impression that this is the sort of     
thing school leisure is4 ,nothing could 
be farther from the truth4 ,midnight    
feasts may occur in school1 and most of 
us1 unless we are too good to be average
 girls1 have taken part in them4 ,but   
such stories are vicious1 for they      
misrepresent the life by suggesting that
 eating inferior and unwholesome food is
 the real freedom most girls desire4    
,there is something repulsive in the    
very thought4 ,feasts that leave a girl 
with a coated tongue and a dull head and
 ,monday blues do not fairly represent  
school or college leisure4 ,good times  
that interfere with good work have no   
place in ideally free hours4 ,but1      
indeed1 the odours from the             
chafing-dishes do suggest that some of  
the girls are trying to put into literal
 execution the wish of a great ,german  
professor in ,oxford4 ,the professor1   
eager to try a dish he saw on the hotel 
bill of fare1 but with his ,english and 
,german verbs not quite disentangled1   

said to the waiter1 ,hereafter ,i vish  
to become a ,velsh ,rabbit4 ,perhaps    
becoming a ,welsh rarebit represents the
 height of some girls' ideals1 but this 
is hard to believe4  ,the possession of 
leisure depends to a great extent upon  
the will power4 ,the girl who has never 
learned to say ,no1 who has no power of 
selection1 cannot expect to have any    
hours for her own use4 ,she is quarry   
for every idle suggestion1 every social 
engagement1 every executive job which   
pursues her4 ,the girl who engages all  
her time socially cannot have a sense of
 leisure1 for she turns her playtime    
into but another schedule1 to be met as 
inexorably as her academic courses4 ,her
 days become a formidable array of      
dates1 often stretching ahead for weeks4
 ,even if girls are not determined to   
have it for themselves1 they should give
 to others some opportunity for freedom1
 and should respect their possible      
desire for solitude4 ,the girl who      
engages or annexes every particle of    

time1 her own or that of some one else  
with whom she comes in contact1 is      
making leisure an impossibility4 ,the   
girl who leaves no margin cannot hope   
for even the spirit of freedom4  ,many  
students excuse themselves for much     
executive work in school and college on 
the ground that it is done in their     
leisure4 ,that girl is a goose who      
allows herself through any sense of     
self-importance1 or irreplaceable       
usefulness1 to be so involved in        
executive work that all other aspects of
 her school life are slighted4 ,if she  
refuses to be swamped by such jobs she  
can have the happiness of reflecting    
that probably some girls who need the   
training far more than she does are     
doing the work4 ,to every girl will come
 the opportunity right along for        
managing2 club and social work will     
bring it1 and a good-sized family will  
bring it as nothing else can4 ,but      
school leisure she will not have again4 
,the whole aim of the school is to      

enrich the lives of its students1 and it
 knows all too well that that student   
who does not keep for herself the       
leisure upon which body and mind and    
soul must feed is indeed poor4  ,there  
is one way in which leisure is very     
generally misspent in school--and alas1 
outside1 too6--not in managing one's own
 affairs1 but in managing and discussing
 the affairs of others4 ,at such times  
the remarks may be superlatively        
pleasant1 but they are more often       
superlatively disagreeable4 ,it may be  
said with truthfulness that they are    
almost never moderate or just4          
,everything is all black or all white1  
with no gray4 ,it makes one think of the
 little girl with a curl in the middle  
of her forehead3      ,when she was     
good1 she was very1 very good1     ,and 
when she was bad1 she was horrid4  ,but1
 alas6 the poor wretches discussed are  
not allowed even the natural and        
somewhat happy human alternation between
 badness and goodness4 ,no1 indeed1 they

 are monsters of a desperate            
character--they may at the moment be    
broken-heartedly conscious of their own 
faults--or they are shining six-winged  
angels4 ,and1 woe6 this sort of thing   
comes almost as hard upon the angels4   
,they can't endure it2 so much goodness 
breaks down their wing arches1 and the  
glorious ones crumple together like     
tissue-paper4  ,and upon the girls      
busily engaged in creating angels of    
loveliness and gargoyles of ugliness1   
this sort of conversation works havoc4  
,it does not invigorate them1 it does   
not inspire them4 ,it belittles their   
minds--thank fortune1 that making       
kindling wood of the characters of other
 people does do this6--and stunts their 
finer feelings4 ,this sin1 that they do 
by two and two1 they pay for one by one4
 ,gentle and considerate feelings are   
lost1 time is wasted1 a vicious         
habit1--almost no habit is more         
vicious1--is acquired4 ,such gossip can 
never become a pure enjoyment2 it       

remains at the best an ignoble1         
discreditable excitement4 ,rolling these
 sweet morsels under their tongues1 a   
taste for ill-natured or exaggerated    
comment fixes itself in their mouths4   
,even if they have consciences that1    
like good mothers1 will occasionally    
wash their mouths out with soap1 they   
retain the disturbing memory of unkind1 
coarse1 or foolish words4  ,yet school  
should be the last place in which to    
indulge in idle talk4 ,such indulgence  
is against all the idealism of student  
life4 ,idle or meddlesome talk never    
helps any one1 either the one who talks 
or the one who is discussed4 ,if you    
have anything to say about other people1
 and if going to them will help you1 the
 only friendly thing to do--it is not an
 easy thing--is to speak to the people  
concerned4 ,if we really knew how to put
 ourselves in other people's places1 no 
unkind1 unfriendly words would ever be  
spoken again4 ,there would be things    
hard to bear said--rebuke or reproof are

 never easy to receive--but nothing     
unfriendly4 ,think how idle1 ill-natured
 talk flows around the world1 and then  
think what a different world it would be
 if there were none of it6 ,it is to    
human life what the blights1 the scales1
 the insect pests are to tree and       
flower4 ,fortunately1 as people grow    
older they come to think themselves less
 infallible1 and as they grow wiser they
 become more tender and more lenient in 
their judgments4  ,in companionship     
whose leisure interests are good there  
is a sense of freedom filled full and   
running over1 of minds and hearts doubly
 rich1 of good times doubly jolly4 ,but 
on the whole1 girls have too little     
absolute solitude2 there is scarcely a  
girl in twenty1 except the dig1 who is  
alone at all4 ,one trouble with         
dormitory school life is that it fosters
 leisure-wasting and time-wasting gang  
habits4 ,a girl so surrounded never     
wants to be alone a moment1 either      
indoors or out4 ,with such1 the blessing

 and blessedness of solitude should be  
learned1 for solitude rightly used makes
 strong men and women4  ,the woman who  
has leisure has a grasp upon time1 is   
master of it instead of being mastered  
by it4 ,it is the girl whirled around in
 a squirrel cage of pointless weekly and
 ,sunday engagements who is oppressed   
and mastered by her lack of freedom4    
,and then there is the hard-pressed     
future2 we must lay up some leisure for 
that4 ,the time when one is most hurried
 is the time when one most needs the    
sense of freedom4 ,the story of the old 
,quaker lady who had so much to do she  
didn't know where to begin1 and so took 
a nap1 is profoundly full of wisdom4    
,when the old lady woke up she found she
 had plenty of time after all1 not      
because she had done anything but       
because she had come again into a       
leisurely frame of mind4  ,leisure means
 neither a blank mind nor an empty hand4
 ,it means a holiday taken with an eager
 mind1 with eyes keen in their delight  

and knowledge1 with hands capable of    
some beauty or some use4 ,all of us have
 leisure to think1 but not all of us    
think4 ,some of us1 if friends come in  
unexpectedly1 will quickly pick up      
something and pretend to be busy4 ,when 
,watt sat by the fire watching the steam
 from the teakettle lift the lid1 he was
 not precisely idle4 ,the powerful1     
indispensable steam-engine was the      
result4 ,one reason1 aside from all     
religious considerations1 why we need a 
quiet ,sunday1 is that we may have that 
sense of freedom which feeds mind and   
body1 and even the crumbs of whose      
profitableness have made the world rich 
in great inventions1 in great pictures1 
in wonderful books4     ,,ix  ,,the     
,,outdoor ,,runway   ,after             
,nebuchadnezzar came in from eating     
grass there had taken place in that     
potentate a great change for the good4  
,one of the factors in this betterment  
may have been the grass itself4 ,the    
grass-cure has always been popular and  

always will be1 for it is just as good  
for the tired mind as it is for the     
tired body4 ,nowadays every big school  
and every college provide a grass-cure  
for students who are out at elbows with 
their nerve sleeves1 or who have not    
sufficient muscle to make them fit1 or  
who are overworking or need toning up in
 any way4 ,there is more and more       
recognition of the fact that a school   
course which is taken at the expense of 
health is not worth having4 ,and side by
 side with this wholesome admission has 
come a great awakening in the last      
fifteen years to the curative value of  
the outdoor runway1 whether that runway 
be a field track1 energetic walking in a
 park or campus1 or a cross country run4
  ,some girls--and there are more girls 
of this type than there are boys--put in
 their outdoor life as a stop-gap4 ,it  
is inconceivable that this should be    
true1 yet it is true4 ,apathetically the
 students have exercised sixty minutes1 
considering this minimum quite          

sufficient4 ,not a particle of zest do  
they reveal in the exercise taken4 ,they
 do not seem to know or they do not care
 that the fields and woods should be    
full1 not only of health and all that   
goes with it1 including success1 but    
also of the best of friends who all have
 their good points worthy of notice and 
imitation1 in quick leap1 cheerful voice
 and blithe song4 ,what are sixty       
minutes in this great outdoor runway8   
,not a tithe of the twenty-four hours   
and at best only half of what the       
minimum should be4 ,exercise should be  
taken even if nothing else in the school
 life is4 ,and ,i say this advisedly1   
for health is the basis on which not    
only the future of the woman's life must
 depend but also that of the race4 ,good
 health1 the inheritance of it1 its     
maintenance and increase1 neither the   
girl nor her parents can ever hold as   
too sacred a trust4 ,that it is a sacred
 trust the schools are recognizing more 
and more1 and provisions are being made1

 especially in the public schools1 for  
the defective in health as well as for  
the strong4 ,the outdoor school1 at     
first an object that attracted universal
 attention1 is now being taken quite for
 granted4 ,foolish the girl who does not
 learn to take the outdoor runway for   
granted1 too1 and go out to it in high  
spirits to learn its wisdom1 to take    
part in its joys and to receive its     
health4  ,it may be accepted as a new   
axiom--the more exercise the less fool4 
,strong1 able muscles1 steady nerves    
7and let us remember that nerves depend 
for their tone on the muscular          
condition71 a clean skin open at all its
 pores and doing its eliminative work   
thoroughly1 and clean strong vitals make
 up the kind of beauty within the reach 
of all womanhood1 and the physical      
beauty which she should most desire4    
,the day is coming when our ideal of    
what is physically perfect--not         
spiritually1 for ,christianity has      
carried us beyond anything that ,greece 

ever knew--will be more like the ,greek 
in its entirety1 its emphasis upon the  
harmony of the whole body4 ,the body is 
a mechanism to be exquisitely cared     
for--self-running1 it is true1 and yet  
in need of intelligent attention4 ,think
 of the care an engineer gives his      
engine1 and it is by no manner of means 
so wonderfully and so intricately       
fashioned as these bodies of ours on    
which our happiness1 our working        
ability1 even our very goodness depend4 
,health as a safeguard to one's whole   
moral being is coming into more and more
 recognition1 and not only as a         
safeguard but also as a cultivator of   
all that is best in us spiritually4     
,there are people very ill1 or permanent
 invalids1 whose great victory it is to 
be among the saints of the earth1 but   
that it is easier to be good when one is
 well no one will deny4 ,every big      
school has now its class or classes in  
corrective or medical gymnastics1 in    
which stooping shoulders1 ewe necks1    

curved spines1 flat insteps1 small      
waists and narrow chests are rectified  
as far as possible in the limited hours 
of the school days4  ,the time is coming
 when parents will consider it a        
disgrace to allow their children to be  
physically undeveloped4 ,the physician1 
always in advance of the community for  
which he cares1 sees how grave in moral 
or intellectual import physical defects 
may be4 ,the educational world1 alive to
 new messages for the reconstruction of 
its educational ideal1 begins also to   
place more and more emphasis upon the   
physical care and development of its    
students--and not by any manner of means
 for physical reasons only but because  
the whole girl or the whole boy is      
better spiritually and mentally for     
having a body that is strong and well4  
,the whole being keeps better time1 just
 as a watch does1 for having clean      
works4 ,no one has the right to shut out
 the fresh air or the sunshine2 no girl 
should remain undeveloped physically    

through lack of exercise when she could1
 through exercise1 make herself strong4 
,even to abuse her feet1 the important  
centre of many important nerves1 by     
tight shoes1 is wrong2 so is it to rack 
her spine and upset or throw out of     
position all the delicate and           
wonderfully fashioned organs of the     
abdominal cavity by the wearing of high 
,french heels4 ,undoubtedly1 however1   
,american motherhood and girlhood       
represent something more and more       
intelligent2 indeed1 in physical culture
 women are beginning to keep step with  
men1 and it is upon this fact that      
school and college depend in their      
splendid efforts to make the sum of     
feminine vitality1 despite the pressure 
of modern civilization1 plus rather than
 minus4  ,the more exercise the less    
fool2 and it is worth remembering that  
the daily exercise1 the plunge into cool
 or clean air1 as well as the plunge    
into water1 is a wit sharpener1 and will
 do more for a student in the long run  

than digging possibly can4 ,mens sana in
 corpore sano may be an old saying but  
it is still new enough to be repeated   
with vigour to certain people4 ,let us  
get out-of-doors and have our wits      
sharpened and see more1 and do more1 and
 be more6 ,no one can permanently starve
 her whole body for the want of fresh   
air and exercise1 which are the body's  
birthright1 and expect to have a clear  
head or do well-balanced and helpful    
work in the home1 or in school1 or in   
some wage-earning career4 ,if the girl  
attempt this impossibility she will be  
like the frog which jumped up one foot  
and fell back two4 ,she will get to the 
bottom soon enough1 the bottom of the   
class or the bottom of her health       
account1 but she will never get to the  
top of anything4 ,any success1 if by    
chance it should come to her1 resting on
 a basis of ill health or indifference  
to her physical fitness for living and  
working1 will be like the house built   
upon the sands4 ,before the girl is     

twenty1 before she is twenty-five--the  
earlier the better--she should recognize
 this fact and begin to establish her   
life on the bed rock of health4  ,it is 
true1 too1 ninety-nine times out of a   
hundred1 that the country boy and the   
country girl are more resourceful than  
their city cousins4 ,out-of-doors they  
have had to use their wits and have not 
been spoiled by all the appliances of   
city life4 ,out-of-doors1 too1 they have
 made invaluable friendships with bird  
and squirrel and rabbit and deer1       
friendships whose intelligent wood-life 
has taught them much4 ,self-reliance is 
one of the lessons of the outdoor       
runway2 and wisdom and inspiration come 
from it when they are needed4 ,about    
this truth the work of the poet         
,wordsworth is one long poem4 ,again and
 again he writes of the perfect woman   
shaped by the influences of nature4 ,of 
her he says3      ,three years she grew 
in sun and shower2     ,then ,nature    
said1 ',a lovelier flower       ,on     

earth was never sown2     ,this child ,i
 to myself will take2     ,she shall be 
mine1 and ,i will make       ,a lady of 
my own4      ',myself will to my darling
 be     ,both law and impulse3 and with 
me       ,the girl in rock and plain1   
,in earth and heaven1 in glade and      
bower1     ,shall feel an overseeing    
power       ,to kindle and restrain4    
',she shall be sportive as the fawn     
,that wild with glee across the lawn    
,or up the mountain springs2     ,and   
hers shall be the breathing balm1       
,and hers the silence and the calm      
,of mute1 insensate things4      ',the  
floating clouds their state shall lend  
,to her2 for her the willow bend2       
,nor shall she fail to see     ,even in 
the motions of the storm     ,grace that
 shall mould the maiden's form       ,by
 silent sympathy4      ',the stars of   
midnight shall be dear     ,to her2 and 
she shall lean her ear       ,in many a 
secret place     ,where rivulets dance  
their wayward round1     ,and beauty    

born of murmuring sound       ,shall    
pass into her face6'  ,no one can afford
 to neglect all the spiritual influence 
of nature1 and the only way to receive  
it is to go to nature4 ,purity of mind1 
a clean conception of ,god's creative   
plan1 a more active intellectual life   
are all there for the girl who will seek
 them4 ,she cannot afford not to go back
 to nature for these helps1 for every   
woman is in some sense a burden bearer1 
and she must needs know all she can of  
what life means in order to bear these  
burdens well4  ,there are various kinds 
of outdoor life1 some one of which is   
within reach of every human being1 even 
if they are cripples4 ,probably most    
girls when the outdoor life of school   
and college is spoken of think that     
athletics is meant4 ,that is one part of
 the outdoor runway1 and since it is    
provided in every school1 and insisted  
upon1 but little about it need be said4 
,it is doing its work with more and more
 inspiration1 as the response to its    

ideals comes in4 ,and it does something 
more in every well-equipped school than 
merely make a girl use her legs and     
arms3 it gives her a large1 sane ideal  
of health and provides her with the     
means of keeping well4 ,there is no more
 useful profession for the woman seeking
 one that is useful as well as          
remunerative than physical culture4     
,there is another aspect of the outdoor 
runway of which less is said4 ,i mean   
gardening1 or the care of live stock of 
some kind1 or bee culture4 ,this is     
practical remunerative work which for   
the girl living at home and going to    
school should serve famously as a       
grass-cure2 it would keep her           
out-of-doors with profit to both her    
health and her purse4 ,and then there is
 another kind of grass-cure3 the outdoor
 life out-of-doors1 to be taken in long 
country walks1 in fishing expeditions1  
in picnics1 in camping or wherever      
roads1 hills1 meadows and brooks lead4  
,finally1 there is the outdoor life     

indoors4 ,this life insists upon windows
 open to the air and open to the        
sunshine1 and this life every one of us 
may have all the time4     ,x  ,a       
,,girl',s ,,summer   ,any girl who      
settles down to a summer with the idea  
of doing nothing1 or in an aimless1     
not-knowing-what-to-do-next fashion1    
lessens her opportunities for pleasure4 
,pleasure is not idleness1 although in  
the minds of a great many people who    
have not thought very much it is4 ,the  
right sort of leisure is full of        
opportunities for doing interesting     
things4  ,there are some girls who look 
upon their summers as an escape from the
 slavery of their school year4 ,there   
are others who think of their summers as
 something to be endured until they can 
go back to the more or less selfish     
freedom of the school4 ,neither is the  
right way4 ,the summer ought not to be  
an entirely frivolous season1 neither   
ought it to be too workaday4 ,if a girl 
has work to do1 everything should be so 

arranged as not to deprive the vacation 
of its recreative side4 ,on the other   
hand the summer should be all the       
happier because of a definite object to 
be accomplished4 ,something is wrong    
with a girl unless she finds both summer
 and winter full of opportunity and     
pleasure4  ,no one can possibly do all  
the delightful or useful things which   
may be done in a single summer4 ,in     
these months there is opportunity for   
growth just as in the winter--perhaps   
more opportunity physically4 ,and       
intellectually there is much to be seen 
and observed4 ,for the girl who can1 it 
is well to plan to be out-of-doors as   
much as possible4 ,for some1 there are  
opportunities for camping1 for long     
walks1 for gardening1 to learn how to do
 certain physically useful things1 to   
row1 swim and ride4 ,only an            
extraordinary emergency would deprive a 
girl of all the out-of-door exercise    
which she needs4 ,if she isn't able to  
be by the sea or in the mountains1 in   

almost all cities there is opportunity  
for exercise and games4 ,with a short   
car ride she can go to golf links1 to   
tennis courts1 into the country4 ,in    
many semi-citified homes there is space 
for a girl to do some gardening1 one of 
the most profitable of pleasures1 good  
for the girl and good for the home4     
,many homes would be much more          
attractive if there were more of the    
garden spirit in them4 ,but if there is 
no chance for this1 there can always be 
physical culture1 an opportunity to     
build one's self up in health1 to live  
sanely and wisely1 to get plenty of     
sleep1 and to take corrective exercise4 
,in physical culture a girl should find 
out what she most needs--almost any     
gymnastic instructor in school or       
college would be glad to outline        
work--and then in ten or fifteen minute 
exercises develop herself along those   
lines4  ,for the girl with means there  
is the chance for travel1 a splendid    
opportunity to cultivate many virtues of

 which the young traveller seldom       
thinks3 patience1 adaptability1 seeing  
the bright side of things4 ,travelling  
may be made a very important part of    
education4 ,it is too bad that some     
people of limited horizon take it simply
 as a chance to aggrandize themselves1  
something to boast about and with which 
to bore their friends by repeated       
accounts of what they did abroad4 ,the  
great ,doctor ,samuel ,johnson1 the     
compiler of the famous dictionary and   
author of ,rasselas1 heartily disliked  
young travellers1 for1 he said1 ,they go
 too raw to make any great remarks4     
,travelling1 if it is what it should be1
 is an educational opening4 ,in this way
 can be gained a background for history1
 for literature1 for sociology1 and a   
vivid and living knowledge of geography4
 ,merely running about with a guide-book
 will not achieve these ends1 although a
 guide-book is a very important asset3  
sympathy1 trying to understand what one 
sees1 will4 ,travelling takes away      

provincialism because it broadens the   
outlook4 ,in a very real sense the world
 becomes one's home4  ,the girl who is  
not able to move about or actually      
travel may travel in books4 ,she should 
be ashamed to read what is harmful or   
merely cheap1 but further than that it  
may not much matter4 ,let her read the  
,little ,books1 if she wishes1 and the  
,great ,little ,books4 ,as surely as the
 magnet swings towards the pole will the
 ,great ,little ,books take her to the  
,great ,big ,books4 ,she will be drawn  
on and up in her reading1 and will have 
cultivated a love for reading which is  
far more important than perfunctory     
knowledge of the classics4  ,just as any
 books that are good point towards books
 that are better1 so should the good    
work of a girl's school year be turning 
her mind towards the future and her work
 as a mature woman4 ,in the summer she  
has time to assimilate all she has done1
 to get her bearings1 and to plan wisely
 for the year1 or years1 to come4 ,for a

 girl of strong physique the summer     
vacation gives an opportunity to add    
towards what she is going to do         
eventually2 to specialize in some line  
of work1 to take a library1 or          
scientific1 course4 ,many girls1        
however1 who wish to spend their summer 
in this fashion ought not to consider   
it1 for they are not strong enough4 ,it 
is well for them to remember that it is 
the quality of work that counts rather  
than the quantity4 ,often the quality of
 a girl's work for an ensuing school    
year depends upon her freedom from study
 during the summer4 ,students should be 
very sure1 if they undertake work in the
 summer1 that it is not done simply from
 a nervous desire to go on regardless of
 the quality of the work done4 ,but for 
those in perfect health this is an      
opportunity to try their powers in      
different ways in order to discover what
 it is they really wish to do4 ,a summer
 so spent may keep many a girl from     
slipping into teaching just because it  

seems the only thing she can do4 ,such a
 salvation will be twofold1 for it will 
save not only the girl1 but also a      
profession overcrowded with loveless    
followers4 ,there are so many needs to  
be filled by a woman's work that it is  
her duty to look for some vocation for  
which she is truly adapted1 to get out  
of the ruts of those professions into   
which women flock because they have no  
initiative4  ,often a girl thinks only  
of what she will do with her own summer 
without thinking of what she will do    
with her mother's or her father's       
summer4 ,for nine or ten months they    
have been thinking of what they could do
 for her4 ,sometimes girls do not       
realize the actual need of help and of  
companionship which those at home feel1 
and the older people are too unselfish  
to force this need upon their juniors4  
,between the unselfishness of those who 
are older and the self-centredness of   
those who are younger1 there is often   
sad havoc made in a home4 ,a girl who1  

after a year's absence and all that has 
been done for her1 can't adjust herself 
to those who need her1 has still        
something to learn4  ,if older people   
cannot do without the buoyancy of the   
young1 the young cannot very well afford
 to forget the mother and father who    
have much1 although no word may be      
didactically spoken1 to teach them4 ,let
 the girl take her summer not only as an
 opportunity to grow closer to her      
family but also as a chance to learn    
home-making1 to train herself in the    
practical things of the home4 ,this     
practical training is often a very      
valuable supplement to the school work4 
,the time is passed when the learned    
woman who is unable to do anything for  
herself is the ideal--if she ever has   
been that4 ,the inability to make a home
 for herself1 to do all the necessary   
things daintily1 detracts from a woman's
 power4 ,in practical ways a woman      
should be both dainty and capable4      
,parents1 as well as girls1 sometimes   

forget or do not clearly recognize the  
fact that no school1 no college1 can    
take the place of the home1 that schools
 are not primarily schools in           
home-making1 but rather schools of      
general education4 ,the summer is a good
 time for the girl to find her place    
again in the home life1 and for both    
parents and children to rejoice in the  
pleasures of the home--pleasures and    
opportunities which no institutional    
life can give4     ,,xi  ,,from ,,the   
,,school ,,to ,,the ,,girl   ,what the  
school is able to do for the girl       
depends very largely upon the girl      
herself4 ,the majority of people with   
whom she comes in contact do not take   
that into consideration1 and the school 
is held unfairly responsible for the    
girl4 ,all any school can do is to use  
the material it finds4 ,some one has    
said1 with harsh but true emphasis1 that
 a college does not make a fool1 it     
simply helps in the development of one4 
,as an illustration of its limitations1 

a school sends out two girls from the   
same class2 one girl it is proud to have
 taken as a type1 the other it is sorry 
to have represent it4 ,yet both have    
been under exactly the same influence4  
,students do not realize how fearfully  
at their mercy a school is1 or that1 so 
far as reputation is concerned1 it is   
they who make or mar its credit4  ,if   
the school training is worth anything at
 all1 it makes the most of unpromising  
material4 ,its really discouraging      
experience is not with the girl of      
limited ability who gives her best and  
so in some sense gets the best1 but with
 the student who doesn't give her best  
and who1 because of her own             
indifference1 is always misrepresenting 
the training she is receiving4 ,no      
school ever wishes to have its ideals   
confused by a vulgar display of wealth  
or by loud or conspicuous behaviour4    
,yet many a school1 with ideals all that
 they should be1 is misjudged in public 
places because of some thoughtless or   

unreliable girls4 ,this doesn't seem    
like fair-play or team-play1 does it8   
,the fineness of life ought to be felt  
and expressed in student behaviour4 ,yet
 how often it is not6  ,another way in  
which the ideals of a school or college 
are misrepresented is by lack of        
intellectual integrity4 ,any school     
informed with a large spirit wishes to  
meet its students on a platform of      
absolute trust1--a platform which makes 
precautions against dishonesty          
unnecessary4 ,just so long as a school  
must be vigilant in order to keep a few 
students from unfair behaviour1 just so 
long is it prevented from meeting them  
all on a basis of absolute trust4 ,why  
should girls excuse themselves for      
classroom dishonesty8 ,what would they  
think of a girl who cheated in          
basket-ball8 ,would they condone that8  
,until student government has recognized
 absolute intellectual integrity as a   
part of its ideas1 it will not have     
achieved its end4 ,the rock on which all

 scholarship is founded is honour4 ,lack
 of honour is fatal to its ideal4       
,cribbing1 often excused by people who  
do not stop to think1 is the small      
beginning of a big evil4  ,many a large 
institution is like an anxious mother1  
not always infallible in wisdom1 but    
personally interested in and eager for  
the success of the individual4 ,a       
successful girl brings credit to her    
school1 for she demonstrates1 as nothing
 else can1 the fact that the school is  
achieving its purpose in service to the 
community4 ,how much this encouragement 
is needed1 girls do not realize1 for    
they do not know all the difficulties   
which institutions1 especially technical
 and collegiate1 have to meet in sending
 their students out into the world4 ,in 
finding a position for a student1 the   
school has to consider the whole girl4  
,it may care greatly for an attractive  
personality and yet see that its        
possessor is lacking in qualities of    
faithfulness and accuracy1 and that with

 its utmost endeavour it has never been 
able to correct these faults4 ,on the   
other hand1 the school may have those   
students whose manners1 whose dress1    
whose personality1 whose spelling1 whose
 awkwardly expressed notes1 whose lack  
of promptness1 make against success in  
any capacity4  ,another point for which 
the school looks in recommending its    
students is physical fitness1 which     
shows itself in many different ways3 in 
voice1 in carriage1 in attractiveness1  
in staying power4 ,one teacher who had  
an excellent record as a student and    
was1 besides1 a fine girl1 had so       
unpleasant and absurd a voice that her  
students were in a continual state of   
amusement and would learn nothing from  
her4 ,a great many teachers have lost in
 power because of a poor voice1         
strident1 or lifeless1 or husky1 or     
falsetto4 ,a poor enunciation1 or words 
that do not carry1 are ineffectual means
 by which to reach a class1 to hold a   
customer1 or to introduce one's self    

favourably to the interest of others4   
,for a girl who is going to have any    
part in public life--and most girls do  
nowadays--a good voice is an absolute   
essential4 ,and it is well for us to    
remember that the voice is not something
 superficial1 but that it is the        
expression of that which is within4     
,another way in which physical fitness  
shows itself is in the carriage4 ,a girl
 who carries herself with erectness and 
energy brings a certain conviction with 
her of fitness for many things1 of      
self-respect1 of ability1 and reveals in
 her bearing something of her mind as   
well as of her body4 ,we are always     
tempted to think a person who slumps    
physically may slump in other ways4 ,a  
good carriage1 good voice1 and strong1  
clean1 digestive system are far more    
important than beauty of features4      
,there is another matter at which the   
school in placing its students must     
look4 ,to be a desirable candidate for a
 good position a girl need not be       

expensively gowned1 but she must be     
daintily and freshly dressed4           
,immaculate shirt waist1 a plain1       
well-made skirt1 with good shoes1       
stockings and gloves and a quiet1 pretty
 hat1 are all any woman needs in meeting
 her business obligations4 ,and that    
daintiness which she shows in her dress 
she must show in her person too1 in     
clean skin and finger-nails1 good teeth1
 and smooth1 attractively arranged hair4
  ,it is very important for the         
interests of a school1 as well as for   
the individual1 to place its students   
advantageously4 ,to have them succeed   
widens its sphere of usefulness and     
influence and opens new channels of     
service4 ,every college puts itself to  
considerable expense in looking out for 
the interests of its students1 for the  
glory of a great school lies not only in
 the people whom it collects into its   
midst1 but even more in those whom it   
sends out4 ,a girl has no right to go so
 lightly through her school life that   

she fails to see in it all the          
self-sacrifice and effort and ambitions 
that have gone into the building up of  
what is her privilege and opportunity4  
,in so far as she does this she fails in
 the team-play spirit4 ,why should a    
girl think that she can spend her       
father's money1 or the means of her     
school1 thoughtlessly8 ,what would      
happen to her if she did this with the  
funds of her basket-ball team8 ,yet     
girls waste the resources of their      
school by carelessness with its         
property1 a carelessness that           
collectively mounts up into thousands of
 dollars1 and never once stop to think  
how difficult every big school finds it 
to make ends meet4  ,before it is too   
late1 at least now that she is leaving  
school1 let her stop to realize that a  
great deal of the work for an           
institution is along the line of        
self-sacrifice1 in the gifts given1 in  
the work of its administrators and      
teachers4 ,this unselfishness means a   

financial loss1 for business ability    
might be invested in more lucrative     
ways2 it means a social sacrifice1 for  
there is a certain kind of impersonality
 which is demanded in work that deals   
with a continually changing community2  
it means risk in the great strain put   
upon physical and nervous strength2 it  
means forgetting one's self2 for the    
true teacher is willing to be forgotten 
when she has served others4 ,what a     
school may accomplish for its students  
is its only compensation for all this   
self-sacrifice4     ,,xii  ,,the ,,work 
,,to ,,be   ,one of the qualities a girl
 who has completed her school or college
 life needs to show for a few months    
more than anything else is the quality  
of adjustment1 for she will find that   
she must continually adjust herself to  
new conditions whether they be of the   
home or elsewhere4 ,all the time through
 school she has been in some sense a    
centre of interest4 ,her class has been 
an important factor in the academic     

life4 ,when she has gone home it has    
been as a school or college girl1 and   
she has been of interest because she    
brought that life into the home4 ,but   
now the attitude of others towards her  
is different4 ,she ceases to be the     
centre of attention1 and for her a day  
of serious readjustment is at hand4     
,perhaps in her own estimate she has    
seemed even more important than she     
really was4 ,she is likely now to swing 
from a sense of self-importance to an   
injured feeling of insignificance1 and  
to a conviction that people can get     
along quite as well without her4 ,up to 
this time when she has gone home she has
 been an honoured visitor4 ,but now that
 she is at home to stay1 instead of     
becoming the centre she is merely part  
of the family circle with its obligation
 of doing for others4 ,her presence in  
the household is no longer a novelty4   
,the swift change from a                
highly-organized1 methodical life to the
 life of the home where there is not so 

much method1 is hard for a girl4 ,one   
reason it is difficult is that while she
 may be accomplishing a great deal that 
is useful1 she seems to be doing nothing
 and to get nowhere4 ,she feels as if   
she were in the midst of a conflict of  
duties4 ,in school she has had implanted
 in her the idea that she must          
accomplish some definite thing1 and     
between this objective and the irregular
 demands of the home there appears to be
 more or less clashing4 ,she is         
confronted by a problem not easy for any
 one to solve3 how to keep her          
definiteness of aim and work1 and yet   
not be self-centred4  ,oftentimes when a
 girl fails to adjust herself to the    
home life1 her family and friends feel  
that she is rather selfish in her desire
 to carry out her own aims rather than  
to give them up for new demands4        
,frequently the family is as much to    
blame for not realizing that the girl   
needs to be helped back into the old    
life as the girl is for not being able  

to help herself4 ,in the home the spirit
 of team-play is much needed4 ,quite as 
much as the girl1 the family has a      
lesson to learn in the art of adjustment
 and in remembering that this grown-up  
child isn't just the same individual she
 was when she went away several years   
ago4 ,they need to realize that the girl
 may be able to give more to the home   
life than she ever did before1 but that 
it will be given in a somewhat different
 way4  ,while she is learning the       
difficult art of finding her place      
again1 a great deal depends upon the    
individual girl1 not only in the home   
but in the community at large4          
,sometimes she needs to be reminded that
 although she may have had more         
advantages than those left at home1 that
 doesn't necessarily make her a superior
 person4 ,a girl who is inclined either 
to pity or to admire herself too greatly
 should give herself a vigorous shaking4
 ,in the long run she will find it      
easier to do that on her own account    

than to have others do it for her4 ,the 
friends at home1 or in the church1 or in
 the town1 with education of a different
 kind coming to them1 may have quite as 
much and more to give her than she to   
give them4 ,one indicator of a really   
cultivated woman is her power to adapt  
herself to the circumstances in which   
she is placed4 ,a gentlewoman never     
calls attention to the difference       
between herself and somebody else4 ,the 
woman of broad culture is the one who   
makes everybody feel at home with her4  
,if a girl's education has been worth   
anything at all1 it should give her not 
a superior1 set-aside feeling1 but a    
desire to be more friendly and useful   
wherever she may be1 and1 not placing   
too much stress on externals1 to look   
for essentials1 to get the full value   
from every person and from every        
experience with which she comes in      
contact4  ,girls go to so many different
 kinds of homes that it is unlikely that
 they will meet the same sorts of       

difficulties4 ,there is the girl who    
goes into the society home1 where it is 
impossible for her to carry out her     
ideals without conflict with its social 
standards4 ,on the other hand1 there is 
the girl who goes into the very simple  
home where all the stress is upon the   
domestic side of life4 ,and there is the
 girl who has to provide part of the    
family income4 ,very likely she has the 
hardest problem of all4 ,she enters upon
 some new work1 and nine times out of   
ten the way is not made easy for her2   
she is a novice with all the hardships  
that come to the novice4 ,perhaps in the
 beginning she has met a very real      
perplexity in hardly knowing what line  
of work to take up4 ,she has no         
particular interest1 no especial talent1
 no brilliant record1 no powerful       
friends1 no money with which to         
establish herself4 ,with her it must be 
as it is with thinking3 she must seize  
hold of the thing nearest her4 ,what    
seems to her a temporary and            

unsatisfactory expedient will in many   
cases open out a path leading to        
something much broader4 ,at least she   
may remember this as consolation3 that  
even that experience of uncertainty1 of 
indecision1 is a part of education1 and 
out of it1 rightly and bravely met1 will
 come some richness for her future life4
  ,the beginning of a work1 teaching or 
anything else1 may have to be rather    
irksome1 indeed1 may be exceedingly     
difficult1--an experience that will     
perhaps test staying power to the       
utmost4 ,when it is too late to give due
 appreciation we realize that the work  
in school which was planned for us and  
arranged with our physical and mental   
well-being in view was1 after all1 not  
so hard as we thought it at the time4   
,we wish that we had enjoyed our leisure
 more and complained less4  ,from the   
point of view of fatigue1 as a          
secretary1 a clerk1 a trained nurse1 a  
teacher1 a social worker1 the burden may
 be so great that the girl is           

disheartened4 ,she is all the more      
disheartened because1 knowing that a    
useful life is a strong1 steady pull1   
the way before her seems interminable4  
,if she carries her whip inside         
her--this counsel is not for those of us
 who are lazy--she does well to remember
 that there is a point beyond which     
fatigue should not be borne1 that is1   
when it overdraws her capital of health 
and nervous energy4 ,raising pigs is    
preferable to a so-called high          
profession when pig-raising is happily  
joined with a reasonable amount of      
health and security4 ,the pigs and      
health together can always pay mortgages
 and buy necessities for those dependent
 upon us and for ourselves4 ,the high   
calling without health is like a wet    
paper-bag3 it will hold nothing4  ,the  
girl meets with another difficulty in   
finding out that in almost any line of  
work a great deal of time is needed for 
the mastery of what seem the simplest   
principles4 ,no one wants the girl who  

hasn't had experience1 and nobody seems 
disposed to take her and give her that  
experience4 ,however1 we all find some  
one who is hardy enough or kind enough  
to try us2 and as every year now there  
is more effort put into finding the work
 girls are most suited to do1 there is  
no excuse for slipping into teaching as 
a last resort4 ,not unnaturally we      
sometimes distrust ourselves1 especially
 in taking up an occupation to which we 
are not accustomed4 ,and in her new work
 the girl1 uncertain of her ability to  
master what she has undertaken1 is      
placed in a position in which she has   
the encouragement of neither the school 
nor the home4 ,before1 she has put much 
of the responsibility for her work and  
life upon parents and instructors4 ,now 
she has to be her own judge and pass    
judgment on herself and her work4 ,she  
has1 too1 not only to lift her own      
weight but the weight of others as well4
 ,as she longs for coperation1 good will
 and encouragement the value of the     

team-play spirit has never seemed so    
great before4         99       99       
99       99       99  ,we do not need to
 be told to remember the happy and easy 
experiences of life4 ,no girl forgets   
them4 ,what we do need is some one to   
tell us where the hard places will be1  
to warn us1 to stiffen our courage and  
to point clearly to the uses of hard    
work and adversity4 ,and although this  
may seem like placing another straw on  
the poor camel's back1 it is now time to
 say that in her life-work1 whether it  
be in her home or outside1 a girl should
 be very clear in her mind what her aims
 and purposes are4 ,if she is working   
solely for the praise and commendation  
of others1 she will often be grievously 
disappointed4 ,not in recognition does  
real reward lie1 but in the work itself4
 ,if she wins great popularity she is   
likely to find that there is nothing    
that shifts so quickly and is such a    
quicksand4 ,if material wealth is her   
sole object she will harden into the    

thing she seeks and add but another     
joyless barbarian to a modern world     
congratulating itself that barbarism is 
a thing of the past1 and yet presenting 
the spectacle of a mammon worship such  
as has never been seen before4 ,if gold 
is her end1 and not the means to a      
nobler end1 then she will find herself  
constantly sacrificing higher issues to 
that1 and lowering her one-time ideals4 
,truly the woman who marries solely for 
the comforts of a home1 the woman who   
teaches1 or nurses for pay alone1 has   
her reward1 and that is in              
self-destruction4 ,she is a carrier of  
barbarism1 not of culture2 of disease1  
not of health2 of tribulation1 not of   
joy4 ,the only real reward there can be 
lies in the idealism1 the joy1 the      
strength of the work done and in a mind 
and heart conscious of having done their
 best4   ,,the ,,end     ,,john ,t4     
,,faris ,author ,winning ,their ,way4   
,making ,good ,pointers for the ,man of 
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,dr4 ,j4 ,r4 ,miller says3 ,sixty       
intimate messages to young men      and 
boys on the things that make for success
 or failure4 ,bright      and short and 
full of illustrations from actual life1 
they are      just the sort that will   
help young men in the home1 in school1  
among associates and in business4       
,everywhere is the suggestion      of   
the necessity for ,christ if men would  
build up fine      character and make   
life worth while4   ,,jeanette ,,marks1 
,m4 ,a4  ,a ,girl's ,school ,days and   
,after  ,introduction by ,mary ,k4      
,woolley1 ,president of ,mt4 ,holyoke   
,college4 #abmo1 cloth1 net #ge;c4      
,in twelve most readable and suggestive 
chapters ranging from      ,the         
,freshman ,year through ,school         
,friendships1 ,the ,students      ,room1
 ,tools of ,study and ,their ,use1 ,the 
,joy of ,work1 ,the      ,right ,sort of
 leisure1 ,the ,girls ,outdoor ,life1 to
 ,the ,work      to ,be1 the author     
writes in a practical yet interesting   

way of      wellnigh every phase of the 
girl and her school4   ,,frederick      
,,lynch ,director of ,n4 ,y4 ,peace     
,society4  ,the ,peace ,problem ,the    
,task of the ,twentieth ,century        
,introduction by ,andrew ,carnegie4     
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,carnegie commends this book in no      
stinted terms4 ,i have      read this   
book from beginning to end with interest
 and profit4      ,i hope large editions
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organizations among those we can        
interest in the noblest of all          
causes4   ,,james ,m4 ,,campbell1 ,d4   
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,shows in most helpful fashion things   
one should strive for and      guard    
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lies 'west of fifty                     
years4'--,chicago ,tribune4   ,,mrs4    
,,newell ,,dwight ,,hillis  ,the        
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shares with her gifted husband the power
 of both      entertaining and          
influencing people with the pen4 ,the   
remarkable interest awakened lately by  
,mrs4 ,hillis' articles in      ,the    
,outlook has inspired this helpful book4
     ,,fiction   ,,wilfred ,t4          
,,grenfell1 ,m4 ,d4  ,down ,north on    
,the ,labrador  ,illustrated1 #abmo1    
cloth1 net #a4jj4  ,a new collection of 
,labrador yarns by the man who has      
succeeded in making isolated ,labrador a
 part of the known world4 ,like its     
predecessor the new volume1 while       
confined exclusively to facts in ,dr4   
,grenfell's daily life1 is full of      
romance1 adventure and excitement4 ,the 
,n4 ,y4 ,sun recently said3 ,admirable  
as is the work that ,dr4 ,grenfell is   
doing on the ,labrador coast1 the books 

he has written1 make his readers almost 
wish he would give up some of it to     
write more4   ,,clara ,e4 ,,laughlin    
,the ,gleaners  ,a ,novellette4         
,illustrated1 decorated boards1 net     
#ge;c4  ,again ,miss ,laughlin has given
 us a master-piece in this story of     
present day life4 ,millet's picture1    
,the ,gleaners1 is the moving spirit of 
this little romance and1 incidentally1  
one catches the inspiration the artist  
portrays in his immortal canvas4 ,the   
,gleaners is issued in similar style to 
,everybody's ,lonesome1 of which the    
,toronto ,globe said3 ,one of the       
successful writers of ',good ,cheer'    
stories for old and young is ,miss      
,laughlin1 and whoever reads one of her 
cheery little volumes desires more4     
,,prof4 ,,edward ,a4 ,,steiner  ,author 
of ,the ,immigrant ,tide1 etc4  ,the    
,broken ,wall  ,stories of the ,mingling
 ,folk4 ,illustrated1 net #a4jj4        
,professor ,steiner has the             
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with consummate skill in this           
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wit1 all permeated by an uncompromising 
optimism4 ,no man has probed the heart  
of the immigrant more deeply1 and his   
interpretation of these ,americans of   
tomorrow is at once a revelation and an 
inspiration3 a liberal education in     
brotherhood4   ,a4 ,d4 ,,stewart        
,heather and ,peat  #abmo1 cloth1 net   
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story1 told in the broadest and most    
fascinating ,scotch language4 ,the      
author belongs of right to that class of
 modern ,scotch writers who bring out   
matters of vital human interest1 with   
religious and tender touches1 and this  
story is one that any writer might be   
proud of and any reader of feeling and  
vitality must delight in4--,journal and 
,messenger4   ,,yang ,,ping ,,yu  ,the  
,love ,story of a ,maiden of ,cathay    
,told in ,letters from ,yang ,ping ,yu4 

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,written in ,english picturesquely      
colored with ,chinese1 at once naive and
 yet full of worldly wisdom1 frank and  
yet discreetly reserved4 ,the story as  
told in the letters is real1 vivid1     
convincing4 ,it is a human document that
 will compel the attention of the reader
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 the saying that truth is stranger than 
fiction4   ,,marion ,,blythe  ,an       
,american ,bride in ,porto ,rico        
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,the story is very pleasant and very    
human4 ,in her bravery and courage1 in  
her wit and merriment1 the bride reminds
 one somewhat of the ,lady of the       
,decoration4 ,this similarity adds1     
however1 rather than detracts from the  
charm of the book4 ,she is thoroughly   
good-natured and clever and             
companionable1 with a whimsical and     
ever-present sense of humor4--,chicago  
,evening ,post4   ,,isla ,,may ,,mullins
  ,the ,boy from ,hollow ,hut           

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,readers of ,john ,fox1 ,jr4's stories  
will recognize the location of this     
story at once4 ,the author and her      
husband1 ,president of the great        
,theological ,seminary of ,louisville1  
have taken a large interest in these    
descendants of some of the best         
,american stock4 ,through the tender    
humanness of her narrative ,mrs4        
,mullins bids fair to gain a large      
audience for this intensely interesting 
work4   ,,dr4 ,,olivia ,a4 ,,baldwin    
,sita1 ,a ,story of ,child-,marriage    
,fetters4  #abmo1 cloth1 net #a4be4  ,a 
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life in ,india2 a story dealing with the
 stress of famine and the pathetic      
condition of ,india's child-widows4     
,,mrs4 ,,maud ,,johnson ,,elmore  ,the  
,revolt of ,sundaramma  ,with an        
introduction by ,helen ,b4 ,montgomery4 
,illustrated by ,gertrude ,h4 ,b4       
,hooker4 ,net #a4jj4  ,sundaramma1 a    
,hindu maiden1 is the heroine of this   

story which relates her revolt against  
child marriage and her flight from such 
slavery4   ,,norman ,,duncan ,author of 
,dr4 ,luke1 etc4  ,the ,measure of a    
,man  ,a ,tale of the ,big ,woods4      
,illustrated1 net #a4be4  ,the ,measure 
of a ,man is ,mr4 ,duncan's first       
full-sized novel having a distinct motif
 and purpose since ,doctor ,luke of ,the
 ,labrador4 ,the tale of the big woods  
has for its hero1 ,john                 
,fairmeadow--every inch a man whom the  
,lumber ,jacks of his parish in the     
pines looked up to as their ,sky ,pilot4
 ,human nature in the rough is here     
portrayed with a faithfulness that is   
convincing4   ,,robert ,e4 ,,knowles    
,author of ,st4 ,cuthberts1 etc4  ,the  
,singer of the ,kootenay  ,a ,tale of   
,to-day4 #abmo1 cloth1 net #a4bj4  ,the 
scene of action for ,mr4 ,knowles'      
latest novel is in the ,crow's ,nest    
,pass of the ,kootenay ,mountains of    
,british ,columbia4 ,to this dramatic   
field he has gone for local color and   

has taken every advantage of his wide   
knowledge1 picturing life of every phase
 in his most artistic style4   ,,harold 
,,begbie ,author of ,twice-,born ,men   
,the ,shadow  #abmo1 cloth1 net #a4be4  
,a new story by the novelist whose study
 of regeneration1 ,twice-,born ,men has 
made the religious world fairly gasp at 
its startling revelations of the almost 
overlooked proofs of the power of       
conversion to be found among the lowest 
humanity4 ,his latest work is a         
brilliant study of modern life which    
will maintain the author's reputation4  
,,rupert ,,hughes  ,miss #cah  ,a ,story
 in ,season and out of ,season4         
,illustrated1 #abmo1 cloth1 net #ge;c4  
,is there any excuse for one more       
,christmas story8 ,surely nothing has   
been left unsaid4 ,the truth1 perhaps4  
,the truth8--about ,christmas6 ,would   
anybody care to read it8 ,perhaps4 ,but 
would anybody dare to publish it8       
,probably not4 ,that sounds interesting6
 ,what nobody would care to read and    

nobody would dare to publish1 ought to  
be well worth writing4   ,j4 ,j4 ,,bell 
,author of ,oh6 ,christina6 etc4  ,the  
,indiscretions of ,maister ,redhorn     
,illustrated1 #afmo1 cloth1 net #fj;c4  
,the thousands who have read ,wullie    
,mc,wattie's ,master will need no       
introduction to this ,scottish penter   
and his pint o' view4 ,the same dry     
,scottish humor1 winning philosophy and 
human nature fairly overflow these      
pages4