The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29

| and to entertain him with her story of | the day. The bond between fathers and | daughters Is very close and tender. and | father is often chivalrous and lover | like in his devotion to the sweet girl who reminds him of her mother as she | was in counting days. Do not be so busy, so anxious about your own friends and your own little concerns, that you have no leisure to bestow upon your | father. I trust that no little perplexity of your school life ever makes you cross | or fretful at home. Perplexities are
 to trample them under our feet and meet them with a smile and not with a frown.
 A girl knew was very affectionate and even demonstrative in her manner toward her parents. She never failed to say Good night mother dear" or Good morning, father, dear" at the right moment. and am sure she was always ready with a kiss and a smile just when these were expected. But she never dreamed of helping to get supper on the day the maid was out :. On that afternoon she was usually en- gagged in writing a composition or drawing a particularly difficult map. She never offered to dress the little sis ter in the morning, or to amuse tho teething baby. If she set her heart upon having new hat or jacket, or a set Of furs, or any somewhat expen- sive article of dress. she teased her father until his pocketbook opened and he gave her what she asked for. It was nothing to her that he should go shabbily attired or wear a threadbare overcoat, so long as she was able to vie In appearance with the richest girl in her class.
 Girls do not transgress in this way Of set purpose. Most of the wrong things they do are done from want of thought They are so accustomed to being put in the foreground and hav- ing the way made smooth for them that they accept as their right what is freely showered upon them from the fathomless love of the parental heart.
 An out-of- f-school duty that should not be neglected Is to keep your books and your clothing and everything that has to do with school where you can easily find them in the morning. In some houses there is no quiet until Dorothy and Jean are fairly down the street and out of sight. So long as they are on the block there is the prob ability that they will come flying back. looking in frantic haste for a missing grammar or an exercise or something that they ought to have had in place before they went to bed last night. A good rule is to be entirely ready for the morning before you lay your head upon your pillow.
 All through your life 1t will be good thing for you to keep in advance of your work. Never let your work hurry you. but get 1t done long enough beforehand to feel that you have a mar gin of time for any other thing that may arise. You can do this by observ- ing a little system. The person who has system not only has a place for everything and has everything in It's place, but has a time for everything and does everything In It's time.
 If you have undertaken out of school to help another girl with her lessons. or if you are one of those girls to whom people come when they want something done in the line of church work, you will need to guard your promises. There are girls who are al. ways ready to promise anything they are asked. but who are very disap. pointing indeed when 1t comes to per. forming what they have pledged. Re- member that for you. next to school duties, just now come home duties, and last of all come the duties that lie outside and beyond the home. If you bear that in mind, you will not get duties tangled up. The truth is they never conflict, if managed alright.