Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-13
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
 Some girls dislike all lessons. The,
 would shed no tears if they neve
 again had to memorize or recite; i
 lessons were left wholly out of theil
 calendar from this time onward. hope you do not belong to their com i pany, or that if you do, you will make
 haste to leave 1t.
 There was Molly Sue, girl I knew
 when she was 16, pretty, soft-man,
 nered, sweet-voiced, but, oh! so lazy!
 She drifted through successive schools
 without learning anything. always
 playing the role of good natured
 Irresponsible shirk. Her kittenish
 ways and dainty sweetness won hel far too many excuses from her teach. CTS, and among her friends the feel
 ing was we'll expressed by an artist who said: Molly Sue does not need to know anything. It is quite enough to look at her, as one looks at per feet flower"
 But Molly Sue did not stay 16i She grew out of girlhood as you will, too, and after awhile people forgot to no- tice her when she was in the room with those who had brains and ideas. The perfect beauty faded. She be- came withered rose. The vacant mind was like dusty lumber-room full of rubbish It was all the great CT pity, for if somebody had taken Molly Sue by the shoulders and shaken her out of her indolence when she was schoolgirl. she might have grown up an interesting woman.
 It is your positive duty, dear girl, to so train mind, heart, will ard dis position that you shall be neither stupid, silly, insipid nor tedious when you are older. k-n interesting woman, clever, enthusiastic, keen and respon- sive, is more to be desired than beau tiful woman; and is more attractive in her home. She will more deeply impress society.
 Of course this girl was an excep- tion. Most girls conquer their in ertia and study after fashion; for tunately most girls have a share of common sense. Even reluctantly ae- quired knowledge is better than none at all.
 
 What want to urge upon you is to put the emphasis of your efforts on the studies you don't like. We all have studies we love, and it is easy to pursue them. For instance, Dor othy, who enjoys her English work, finds no dificultys inl-lseeping at the. head of her elassssbut-wh the ques-. tion is of mathematics she gropes about in the dark If you will glance over your classmates, you will have no trouble in picking out half dozen Dorothys. Some of them come out splendidly in history and are dull in physics; some shine in Latin, and cannot tackle the simplest algebraic problem. The point for every such girl, don't you think, Is to spend strength and time and really hard work on the book, the subject, the situation, that she has no particular aptitude for? The things one likes one acquires without painstaking, but it is painstaking that rewards one in the end
 l don't think there is pleasure in the world that can be compared with an honest joy in conquering a difi- cult task. It is by hard work over what one does not enjoy that one gains that mastery of the will and facility of the mind that make the true distinction between the educated and the uneducated person. Natural cleverness is good quality. But a better enc is downright, sturdy. dog ged perseverance, that never lets go, once 1t has started on any line or work.
 A schoolgirl should take stock of her own capacity. There is an old story of a preceptress who wrote to the rich parent of a very dull pupil, that his daughter lacked capacity. Buy her one immediately" tele- graphed the man of affairs. Alas! gold cannot buy capacity. No outsider can give it you. But you can buy it for yourself.
 You, Edith, who complain that you cannot remember, that what you learn to-day is forgotten tomorrow. may change all that, if you will give your attention to one thing at a time. and let nobody disturb you. Some girls are seatter-brained. Don't be like them. Fix your mind on a single word, a single sentence, a single para graph. and compel 1t to understand that, and to remember it. Memory is e slave to those who know how to command 1t and make it obey.
 You, Rosamond. who have no trou- ble about memOrizing. but whose hard ship is that you cannot reason, that you do not see into things clearly. must take the same prescription. Be contented if you do not make very rapid progress. but concentrate your thoughts on the thing in hand. Moth ing can stand before the days work" said great teacher. Eacn days work, carefully done. tells wonderful ly on the vork.of a month or a term.
 This is what happens to you. my dear girl. whoever you are. It has happened to me many a time. 90 I know whereof I speak Never mind the locality: q girl Ia the district school in the woods. girl in town . girl with every appliance. or girl with few helps may have the same You tug along dauntlsss-