The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-09-16
BY MARGARET e. SANGSTER.


Mary, Helen, Florence, Gertrude. Eliza
beth, Grace, Anne, Marion, Amy.
Margaret, Constance, Edith, Alice,
Ruth, Ethel; how pretty these names
and others are, and how irresistibly
they suggest the rosebud garden of
girls. Nothing is prettier than a girls
name, except a girl herself. The names
or girls are as sweet as flowers in
bloom.
VINO is queen in your class garden?
Some girls are born with popular
gifts, and have the magnetism that
makes them leaders, and among these
there is often n who is sure to be
liked by everybody, and who excites
the loyalty and admiration of the en-
tire class. You know this to be true.
In your class there is the clever girl
who is always ready with an answer,
and there is her opposite, the rather
slow girl who cannot think what to
say until the occasion has passed.
There is the girl whose claim to dis
Junction is her beauty. She is so pref
ty that the class is proud of her. Al
other girl wears beautiful dresses and
becoming hats, and yet another has a
manner that is S 70 gentle and refined
that it wins praise from every one
In a class of % or 80 girls there will
always be as many different charac-
tiers. For though to the casual observ-
er girls look much alike, to one VINO
studies them they are very different.
Just as no two children in a family are
precisely similar, and no two days in
the year are altogether alike, SO no
two girls conform together in every
particular.
The difference saves the class from
monotony. Although 80 girls have
the same lessons and come under the
same discipline, their natural charac-
teristicS are not crushed. A rose is
always a rose, and a lily is always a
lily.
Who is the queen Of your class gar
den? | will venture to say that she is
the girl most worthy of the honor,
most lOvable, most unselish and most
devoted to maintaining a high ideal of
girlhood in the intercourse of tue
schoolroom.
In passing, we may note that the
names of the girls in your class are
much the prettier on account of the
quaint dignity which invests them,
and forbids their being superseded by
diminutives in public. Glass cata-
logues used to show us Minnies and
NAMES. Kitties. Bessies, Trudies and
Dollies. Now the sweet girl gradu-
ate permits no such license to be taken
with her baptismal name. May l add
that while pet James are very proper
at home when used only by those who
have loved you from the cradle. they
are not to be tolerated on the lips Of
outsiders.
AS for such names as Pet, Puss.
and the like, they beit no girl
after she has learned to walk; they are
only fit for the cradle. l advise you,
too, not to allow eccentricities of
spelling in the class list or elsewhere.
kathryn is not SO beautiful as 'Kath-
arine, o Edythe comparable with
Edith. and so on. Spell the name &C
cording to time-honored usage. If you
are so fortunate as to have been called
Penelope, Priscilla or Isabel insist on
being addressed by it. The n pet
which in my judgment improves
On the original is Nancy, which is a
more fascinating name than the state
Iy Anne. Janet, Jean and Jane are
really the same name; all are beau
tiful, don't you think?
But about your class reunion. Tue
girls in a high school graduating
class have been together long enough
to have a common fund of traditions,
associations and anecdotes, on which
they may draw. They have done the
work and enjoyed the same play
'or several years. 1t is the greatest OF
pities if. leaving the schoolroom. they
are obliged to give one another up.
They ought to get together from time
time and have a pleasant afternoon,
md once a year all who can should
meet in a reunion. The best way is to
lave a luncheon at the house of one
IF the girls. To the expense of this
least let the class contribute. BY the
payment of a small annual fee there
will always be money enough in the
.reasury to meet such a demand. There
asimple but choice bill of fare,
lot forgetting the sweets that girls are
'ond of. AS class reunions generally
AXE place in the summer there may be
plenty of flowers to decorate the table.
rhe artistic member of the class may
the menu cards, or the plane
ards. Whoever is class president will
AXE the head OF the table, and she
nay or may not act as toastmistress IS.
When the courses have been finished
he toasts will be offered and girls
Who nave been selected beforehand
will speak to them. There is nothing
about this. Select any senti-
nent you like. Something that has to
10 with the class history and the class
,eculiarities will awaken most merri-
nenr, and merriment is what you want.
invite favorite' teachers now and
hen.
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