Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-02-14
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EDUCATIONAL NOTES,
A Few Items From Supt. Shirk's
School and Home"

School and Home"
Miss Eta May Bruckhart, who
was one Of the assistant teachers in
our model primary department last
July, has been chosen to conduct
the same in Riley county this year.
Prof. B. +. Nihart will conduct
the Logan county normal in August.
Dickinson county people have q
good name in those parts, as he is
the fourth to work in their normal.
DR.. W. 7. Harris says that New
England gets on an average nearly
twice as much education for her
children az other sections Of the
U. s., and her people earn seventy
three cents per day for every man,
woman and child, while the average
for the U. ). is but forty cents.
Does education pay?
The annual examination Of appll-
cants for admission TO the county
high school will be held on Satur'
day, March 10th, in the places in
which it was held the past two
years and in addition, perhaps, in
the Chronister school house, Dist
No. 81.
The friends of. Geo. W. Draper,
who taught in Dist. No. last year,
will be sorry to hear Of the death of
his wife. They were living in
West Lawrence.
The State Board has chosen FEB.
22nd, Washington's birthday, as
Pupils Reading Circle Day and re.
quests that every school prepare a
program for the evening and charge
a small admission fee TO raise money
to purchase the eleven books adopt.
ed for this year. By SO doing you
will lay the foundation for q school
Library and have two books adapted
to each grade. By doing this year
after year our district schools will
in few years have Libraries rival
ing those of cities, and the cost will
never be noticed. Let US see who
the progressive teachers and which
the wide.awake schools are in our
county by taking the lead in this
commendable enterprise. In one
county 400 pupils have read the
books.
HAPPINESS.
Essay written by a pupil nadlslrlct school)
1t is commonly believed that peo-
pie are happy or unhappy accord
ing to circumstances But this may |
well be questioned; for many are
unhappy under circumstances high
ly favorable to happiness. The
high.born, the wealthy, the dis.
tinguished and even the good are
often unhappy.
The very best Of people, whose
lives are honorable and whose char.
acters are noble, pass many hours OF
sadness and WEAKNESS OF heart.
The fault is not with their circum-
stances nor with their general
characters, but with themselves that
they are unhappy. They wait for
happiness to come instead Of going
to work and making it.; and while
they wait they torment themselves
with borrowed troubles and with
fears, till they are all untitled for
happiness under any circumstances.
Sometimes lhey eoyet some ianeled
o. real good Which they do not
deserve and could not enjoy if it
vas theirs, wealth they have moi |
earned, honors they have not won
Sometimes they underyaluc The
good they do possess and long for
something never seen, but only read
or heard of; and forget present du-
ties and Joys in future. Sometimes
forgetting the past and present, they
live in the future, not in its proba-
bic realities but in its unreal crea-
tion., now of good, then evil, and
uniting Their minds for real life
and enjoyment. Even the common