Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-11-17

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eial Engagements for Girl in
oahoo-Don't Look Down ON Fa-
thsr and Mother When They Can
not Hslp You-Ths Candy Habit
BY MARGARET II. sANGsTBR
copyright. 1905. BY Joseph b. Bowles.)
my daughter would be much more
Vlnsome II she had NO home work 70
a." said girls mother to me the other
day.
A girl herself, throwing down her
books with an air of disgust, exclaimed.
- If trampling on an enemy: "Therel'
hate you. wish need never rec you
againl School all day, and study all
the evening, and where does there come
IN the time for any fun?" Where, in.
deed!
: And yet after young girl leaves tho
primary grades, after she has rounded
1hs landmark named Cape Twelve or
Cape Thirteen, she must expect to have
. certain amount of home study to be
regularly done, If she is to take high
rank In her classes. Every schoolgirl
knows this. Now, if you are school,
girl, you belong to the girl friends am
addressing, and as want to think of you
o. sweet, winsome and reasonable, you
will let me speak very plainly, will you
not?
The study periods which alternate
with Rotations cover some portion Of
the work outlined for the next day. But
they do not and cannot cover the whole
Of It. You may spend them in studying
those lessons in which you are weak,
and In which you are most likely to need
some help from your teacher But III
order to do full justice to your school,
- well as to yourself, in order to main
tain the high reputation of your own
class, you must bestow the labor of q
Qniet hour or perhaps of two quiet hours
q home on your books.
Two hours is quite enough You
should not devote more time than this
- your homework. The question is,
@hea- shall you take the two hours? It
. complicated for some of you in several
ways. You may take music lessons, or
oase you may have to give your mother
ooms aid In the housekeeping, do err
rands, ct tables, make beds and wash
11shes, and either way you have less
dme for home study than your opposite
oeighbor, whose mother requires few
services, and who has no extra studies.
3et you, not she, must be congratulated.
An all-round girl must know how to do
housework as well as shine in school.
There is everything in system. Never
begin to study the minute you come in
BON school. Eat something, a slice Of
1goo4 and butter, or q little fruit, or
nnk glassful Of milk, q soon as you
hike of your hat. Put your books and
ivory thought Of school aside for several
oours. Go out doors, take q walk, play
tennis, drop In upon your chum, or put
your room In order; but Let there be q
zeal space between school work and
home work.
IN boarding schools, where the girls
have a schedule appointed for them, the
hours of study are arranged with q view
to letting the students have q chanoo
for play as we'll as for work.
Whatever time you select, either IN
hour in the evening and another in the
morning, or two consecutive hours BE-
fore going to bed, put your whole self
into the work. Don't let your brother
James persuade you to slip off with him
to some evening Of pleasure, or your
Cousin May induce you to 10 to her
birthday party.
School girls have nothing to do with
society. You cannot 90 to parties and
dances and picnics and take excur-
si0ns here and there, while you are at
school, without falling below your right
percentage, and mourning an accumula-
uon Of neglected work. Your motto
must be, This one thing do" This
school time is your seed time. II you
are thorough and diligent in your prep
aration, you will have ease and Joy, and
20 on with flowing sail when you are
In college, or have entered some field
u business, or are q home daughter
with social engagements. All this will
b later.
But school comes first in schoolgirl's
hfe. If you have lessons in music, so
manage your hours for practice that
thsy dovetail with your other work. So
With any other accomplishment.
We all lose great many precious min
utes by dawdling. A girl or woman
who goes on with her work without vast
ing tms will keep ahead Of her work,