Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-02

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other failures that try our hearts quite
as much.
Another girl makes a friendship
where We have only q slight acquaint-
ance. or goes OF on q splendid trip to
Europe, while we stay at home with
out change of scene. The fact is, II we
choose to disturb ourselves about them.
the small disappointments of life are
endless. The great ones, too. occur
now and then. It Is test Of charac-
ter to meet discouragements bravely,
and to refuse to be downcast and blue.
when we fail in an attempt through no
fault Of our own. 1913,
Al write l am thinking of girl
friend who has had an experience
which will show her mettle and dis
close In its later effect the sort of girl
she is. Elizabeth is a quick and clever
girl, who learns without taking much
trouble. and who has a reputation in
her family circle for extraordinary
genius. She has always been expected
to carry of all the prizes in sight. Her
father amuses his friends by the IN
conscious vanity which prompts him tc
boast of Elizabeth's sprightliness. and
he Is continually repeating her witty
speeches and telling any listener whom
he can buttonhole the story Of her lat
est triumphs. Her mother has less to
say, and is more tactful. but In her
quiet, unobtrusive fashion. she is just
as proud of her daughter and just a.
convinced of her superior talents 40
her good husband Is. Both these peo-
pie, without meaning It, have pufked
up Elizabeth from her cradle. with the
result that she has como to depend
entirely too much on her quickness
and has omitted the hard study which
1t certain points is indispensable. You
may imagine the family conformation
and chagrin when Elizabeth failed to
pass her senior examinations and was
told that she would have to take her
last year over II she 10 finally to be
graduated.
A year does not look very long to
your father and mother, because as
people grow older the years seem fair
ly to rush along like waves In q mill
race, but 1t seems a tremendous thing
TO a girl of II. It looks to her like a
long level stretch of eternity II we
fail in anything when we are young we
are tempted to fancy that we never can
make up our loss. That is one reason
why young people are blue when they
ought to see everything in rose-color.
Once we allow ourselves to be discour-
aged, we are Handicapped. We are very
apt In such moods to discourage 9TH
ers. II girl in Elizabeth's position
happens to be preparing to teach. or
has in mind . determination to be an
artist, or a journalist, she says to her.
self, Il may as well give 1t up. There
is no use in keeping on. I shall never
attain what l wish.
Never" is a word one hears on the
lips of schoolgirls much oftener than
one ought.
Looking over q closet one day in
whica q middle-aged woman had
packed away many treasures of her
girlt>ood, came upon q lot of old
school books. In one of them found
written in very black letters. under
scored, too, on the margin of several
pages the word Despair" Have you
any idea," l said to the owner of the
books. why or when you wrote this
word on these pages?"
"Oh," she said, with laugh, when
I was IA had moods. often used to
think that l had almost reached the
jumping-on place Of the world, and II
l failed in q lesson felt as II the dis
grace were inscribed upon me in let
ters so large that everybody could see
them. l suppose l scrubbed that one
day when was blue.'
A woman who has been widely
known as a successful writer told me
that her first work during the first
yea of her struggle to enter the pro-
fess:oa was invariably returned. "Stor-
les. poems, essays" she said, ALI cams
hurrying back, declined with thanks,
and she added, Il used literally many
Z time to vet my pillow with tears. Yet
tie oftener l failed the moe deter
mined I became not to fail. l would
Just pull myself together and work
harder ncxt time"
In the case Of student Who. either
through illness or lack Of painstaking
or inability to do her work, misses .
vsas, ihs delay MAJ b blessing IN