The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-11

why it is that their mothers and teach CTS do not help them out of it, and that their own good sense does not come to the rescue.
 The truth Is that a successful day for a schoolgirl begins at nine o'clock the night before. At that hour she should say good night to everybody and go to bed. If she has had dinner early and feels bit hungry, it will do her no harm to take a very simple luncheon of bread and milk before She goes to her room. Then without un- due delay, she should undress. say her prayers, put out the light and go to bed and to sleep. It is the wretched habit of sitting up until half-past ten or Il in warm room, with the fam
 fly, talking, singing, playing games or the piano, or perhaps studying too late. that makes girls drowsy in the morning.
 Sleeping in an ill-ventilated room helps along. Be very sure that you have fresh air to breathe while you are asleep, and protect yourself against cold if necessary, by wearing a gar ment of outing flannel or of some wooden stuff instead of too thin night dress. If girl goes early to bed and sleeps sound1y all night. she will be able to rise as soon as she is called. Haste in the morning upsets one ter ribiy. and literally pursues one like a .fiend all the rest of the day.
 Rise in time to take sponge bath from head to foot. to arrange your hair, and to have a few tranquil mo- ments for devotion, Never think of leaving your room to begin any day without kheeling in prayer to the Heavenly Father Who has watched over you during the night and Who will guard you during the day. Eat your breakfast slowly. gather your books and papers with deliberation and set of to school with a light heart. Hurry and worry devour ones ease of mind and make 1t impossible for one to do justice to her own powers. I think I can tell in looking around the group of girls which of them are in the habit of beginning the day fin and which tumble out of bed and into their clothes and lose their wits and their tempers before they have att tackled the days business.
 An ancient philosopher once said that there was everything in keeping an even mind Those of us who have a good deal to do in the course of 8 day or week, are well aware that we accomplish nothing if we lose our heads and rush where we should in- stead go slowly.
 So great a thinker as Francis Bacon, who was a very learned man, said in an essay an Dispatch that above all things order and distribution and sin- gling out of parts is the ufe of des- patch. For he that doth not divide will never enter well into business. To choose time is to save time. and an unreasonable motion Is but beating the air. I knew wise man that had 1t for a by-word when he saw men has tening to a conclusion, stay little that we may make an end the sooner
 if so great a man as Sir Francis Bacon thought 1t well to act with de- liberation ana map out his days with foretbought. do you not think that schoolgirls like Penelope and her friends may as well do the sane7
 After my talk with her I had 1t out with myself, l said wonder if I, too, cannot turn new leaf here, We older people may as well be frank We do not always set the girls the best example when the matter IS one of beginning the day.
 There is great comfort in doing our best and leaving the rest.
 As Longfellow says, pithily:
 'eTrust no future, howe'er pleasant
 Let the dead past bury its deadi Act, act in the living present,
 Heart within and God o'erhead