Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-10-05
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER

BY MARGARET E. sANGSTER.
Copyright, 1905 by Joseph b. Bowles)
| don't blame you much, Dorothy, for
your great dislike of mathematics. |
have never particularly enjoyed study
ing them for my own part, and | have
always looked with respectful wonder
and almost awe on other people who
have professed to find them delightful.
Yet, my dear, the girl next you in The
class may approach this subject in a
quite different mood from yours. She
may fully enjoy the abstract and con-
crete principles Of the science Of num-
bers; may fairly reyel in difficult prop
ositiOns, and may regard the hour for
algebra, trigonometry or whatever else
1t may be rs the most eXhilaratiug hour
Of the day. Not tinfrequently two sisters
may be entirely in contrast when the
question concerns this abstruse and, on
the whole, formidable study; one may
love it as much as the other lOathes it.
You need not expect to receive much
help from the people at home when you
are puzZling over diagrams, examples
and problems in mathematics. Most of
us, after our school days, remember
enough of what we learned there to en-
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