The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-29
By Margaret E. sans.ter.

Copyright 1905, by Joseph, B. Bowles.
 A good deal of selffshness, am sor- roy to say, is. shown by the girls who
 seem to think that going to school CTS or in, any way lending hand at l home.
 I I quite understand that school life
 makes a great many demands and | that a girl, in order to keep up with
 her class and maintain high aver age, cannot afford very much time for social affairs, as her studies must all
 ways come first. Nevertheless, if a
 Younger children or with the house work, the good daughter will not re- frain from giving 1t and will do so not | fran from giving it and will do so not ingly, but with a cheery brightness and a good will that will make her the home sunbeam.
 Lest some dear girl may fancy that she cannot wash dishes and make beds and occasionally stir up pudding and fill lamps and dust living rooms, and still do her classwork credftably, let me tell two little true stories.
 | One is that of girl who. when a | mere little maid of seven was left an orphan. Her home was in New England village, well up toward the Canada line. Father and mother were dead. She had neither brothers oncr
 sisters. and with dismay she heard
 the relative with whom she lived talking about the necessity of placing
 her in an asylum: Without word to
 anybody. the child walked to the
 largest mansion in the place. knocked
 at the door and asked the lady of the house If she might not come and stay l with her and work out of school hours. The lady looked in amazement at the
 enterprising little applicant and. said, Idoubtfully: What can you do?" The
 child replied. without hesitation: "!
 can do anything that I am told and that I can reach" She held her little
 head up with confidence and hope. The lady could not say no to the little pleader. She was taken into the home and sent to school. She worked her way into the affections of the household by her quickness and affec- tionate docility; she went steadily on through primary, grammar and high
 school. and finally paid her way by
 her own work through one of the fin
 est of our Eastern colleges for wo- men. That little girl is today sue
 cessful teacher. and a woman Of far reaching influence.
 Another girl whom I know well is
 student in college where the she, having won a scholarship by bril- liant attainments, is paying for her
 board in a home near the college by
 the work she does in the mornings and evenings.
 Mothers are often very ready to save their daughters trouble. No matter
 how tired the mother may be. she says nothing about 1t. Her delft hands make
 the dainty frocks her daughters wear,
 her wiling hands often iron the shirt
 waists and the stocks. and even mend the gowns and sew buttons on the
 shoes of the young girls who go out looking so trim and fiower-like In their sweetness and their beauty. Let me
 tell you, girls, there may come a day
 when you will sadly miss all the moth CT love and the mother betting, when you will wish, perhaps too late, that you had been more considerate and less self-absorbed. A girl has out of school duties to her
 father, as well as her mother. Fathers toll early and late. Some of them get very little good of their homes except on Sunday, that blessed rest-day which comes once a week to give freedom from business, and opportunity not only for the worship of God, but for loving companionship in the household. When your father comes in at night Tagged and weary with the long day, his heart warns and his face lights up with smile if his daughter is ready to well come him, to give him the easiest chair