The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-29

n GOOD deal OF selhshness. l am sOr-
n ny TO say, is shown by girls who
seem 10 think that going TO school
excuses them from helping their moth
ers or in any way lending hand at
home
i quite understand that school life
makes a great many demands and that
a girl, in order to keep up with her
class and maintain a high average
cannot afford very much time for So
cial affairs, as her studies must always
come inst. Nevertheless. if a girls
mother needs help with the younger
children or with the Homework, the
good daughter viii not refrain from
giving it and viii do so not in tha
spirit of a martyr nor grudgingly but
with CHEEKY brightness and a good
VIII that Will make her the home sun
beam.
Lest some dear girl may fancy that
she canot wash dishes and make beds
and occasionally stir up a pudding and
MI lamps and dust living rooms, ana
still do her classwork credtably, let
me tell two little true stories.
One is that of u girl who. when q
mere little maid of was left an Or
phan. Her home was in a New Eng
land village, we'll up toward the Cans
ada line. Father and mother were
dead. She had neither brothers nor
sisters, and with dismay she heard the
relative with whom she lived talking
about the necessity Of placing ner in
an asylum, Without a word 20 any
one, the child walked TO the largest
mansion In the place, knocked at the
door and asked the lady of The house
II she might not come ana stay with
her and work out of school hours. The
lady looked ia dmaZement at the enter
prising little applicant, and oaid,
doubtfully. What can you do2' The
child replied, without hesitation, Il
can do anything that / am tOid and
that l can reach She held acr liLtle
head up with confidence and hope.
The lady could not say no to lie lit
tie pleader. She was taken into the
home and sent TO school. She worked
her way into the affections Of the
household by her Quicllncss and alfec-
tionate docility; she went steadily OH
through primary, grammar ana high
school. and finally paid her way by
her own work through one # thu finest
of our eastern colleges for women.
That little girl is today a successful
teacher, and a woman uf fdr-reachng
influence.
Another girl whom know we'll is a
student in a college where the stand
ard is exceptionally high and she,
having won a scholarship by brilliant
attachments, is paying for her board
I'm home near the college by the work
she does in the mornings and eve
nings
Mothers are often very ready to save
their daughters trouble. No matter
how tired the mother may be, she SAYS
nothing about il. Her deft hands make
the dainty frOCks her daughters wear.
her willing hands often iron the shirt
waists and the stocks, and even mend
the gloves and sew buttons OH the
shoes of the young girls who go ont
looking SO Trim and floNer-like in
their sweetness and their beauty. Let
me tell you, girls there may come
day when you viii sadly miss all the
mother love and the mother petting.
when you viii wish, perhaps too late,
that you had been more considerate
aud less self-absorbed.
\ girl has oul-of-schoOl duties to her
father, as we'll as TO her mother. Fa-
theirs toll early and late. Some IF them
get very little good of their homes eX-
cept on Sunday, that blessed rest-day
which comes once a week to give free
dom from business and opportunity
not only for the worship of God. bus
for loving cOmpaniOnship in the house.
hold. When your father comes IN at
night tagged and weary with the long
day, his heart warns and his face
lights up with smile if his daughter