The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-05-02
Thoughts for School Children.

Another school year hastens to close.
The long months of hard work must
son give place to a season Of TEST. Every
true citiZ II r,iOices III Unions splendid
schools. sMOle than this could be said
Every loyal citizen of Union feels II
personal Interest III the progress OF even y
boy and girl in attendance upon cur
schools. Most certainly the Editor feels
sincere interest in every one of them.
God bless these little men and women.
They are seeking wisdom Great oppor-
tunities are opening before them; grave
r.sponsibilitier must soon fall upon them.
They are seeking to be qualified for Cit
zeuship. They are laying foundation
for usefulness. May their earnest pre-
paration bring to them the fulfilment of
their fond hopes of success
1t is not the intention of the writer to
deliver them lecture or preach them
sermon. These words are written that
they may know that they are not for
gotten, and with the earnest desire that
soma little help and encouragement may
be given.
Most school boys and girls love their
teachers. This is as it should be. For
the teacher is seeking to do the student
good Sometimes a child comes to re-
gard the teacher as a taskmaSter, sort
of hard hearted tyrant who delights in
the misery of the seeker after wisdom.
Sometimes boy feels that he is hardly
used, that the teacher shows partiality
and does not meet out even handed
justice. Let the little man remember
that possible he is to blame, that after
all the teacher is seeking his highest
good. Let him go in to win the teachers
good will. He will find very soon that
the way will brighten and school life Will
be thing of Joy.
Be careful to make friends among your
school mates. You cannot afford to
neglect the humblest one of them. 1t is
an ugly sign that child has few friends
among his schoolfellows. 1t is sign
that promises no good for the future.
Aud for child, as for all others, it is
true that to win friends 1t is necessary
to show the spirit of friendship You
cannot afford to neglect "the dulln boy
or girl That boy that you have come
to regard as dull may be sleeping giant
that will some day be aroused and startle
the world with his achievements. You
figures' that he will be slow at every
UlluR. " loCl pNOplO Ulltll you nave
been woefully mistaken along this line.
The poorest child may one day be
leader in the great world Of business. 1t
will be a comfort to you that you had
the nobility Of soul to show him spirit
of helpfulness. 1t is comforting to know
that you had a hand in the making of a
man or woman. And should no such great
results follow from your honest effort TO
help another to pobler things, you will
have the consolation of having tried to
to be helpful. So
The great lesson that the school child
should learn is the lesson Of self control.
1t is thing you will never learn abso-
lutely, but the more progress you make
in that direction, the surer you may be
of fulfilling the requirements of noble
life. It's perhaps true that many boy
finds it hard work to keep up with his
classes for the simple reason that he
has not learned self restraint A school
boy or girl stuffed with candy and other
sweet meats will have little room for
thought to find lodgment in the mind.
Some boys are such miserable slaves to
the cigarette habit that mind and body
are dwarfed and they stapd little chance
to keep their place amopgthe advancing
ranks.
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