Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-15

Some OF noble purpose.
Some with small regard 10 rule;
Crowds OF happy young folks
Westward. on their way to school.
The Salt Lake High school this
week. has been the busy scene OF our
young students making ready for the
years battle, and Il has been "Hark to
the trump and the drum. and the null
titudes hum, and they come, Ehey
come" in rs fullest sense. Some look
ing forward TO triumphant laurels
claimed by dint Of hard study, some
10 the glorious action " athletics, he
roes All, distinguishing themselves in
football, especially: some with beating
breasts at the approaching strife. and
some, the strange ones from different
states, and from the country, with anx-
Lefty. fear and loneliness written all over
them. as though moving on TO their
sure doom. vast array gathering
there. and marching ON to registration.
Ambitious pupils. nervous, lretful,
were walking up and down the halls
IN a great stale Of agitation. wanting
10 take everything IN the course. while
hand to hand. and foot 10 foot" we're
pupils plotting, planning. scheming 20
take just as few studies as possible.
There also, were the girls and boys, TO
whom our highest respect goes out,
wiling and ready 10 make sacrifices for
the sake OF keeping at school, asking
for any kind Of work to pay for board.
ana books, clothes and shoes. Such pu-
pills as we already know, win out, as
rule, with more lsurels than those
whose fathers are mill ionaires. But this
is no reason why these struggling ones
should not fnd helping hands stretched
out 10 them at every step and turn OF
their arduous way. Cannot more OF
our business men, more OF cur better
10 do wives and mothers. nut forth
greater effort this year In providing
work and homes for these ambitious
boys and girls. who are earnestly seek
ing to combine work with study? Will
ing to make any sacrifice In their eager
thirst for education, Is II possible that
any should seek and be denied? II In
certainly for the highest good IN tho
end-such students. such characters, are
We are hungering for.
One ambitious boy had worked from
the Let Of June. IN order 10 provide
himself with clothes and books FOR the
High school his year He had asked
for at least one weeks vacation. iust
before the term opened, bat instead
had been obliged 30 stay on and helm
the man who took his place. and So
viii work on I'LL Saturday night, with
but one days rest before beginning
school Monday morning. This boy Is
one Of the kind mo duty can oyertask
him, no need his will outrun."
One girls mother died. during vacs-
ton. leaving a little new babe. This
girl is allowed TO attend High school
this winter, with the promise that she
care for and mother the baby. the en-
tire time out OF regular school hours
Her study time Will be when the baby
sleeps
There were pupils lacking IN appre-
citation, full OF deception. and who had
even been guilty OF truancy, no matter
The sacrifice Of parents 20 keen them In |
school. minging their voices with ,hn
more deserving throng. one or two |
Instances OF deception seem almost in |
credible. Here Is one: a girl LEFT
home every morning for six months |
asst year. her parents thinking she |
went 10 school: but IN an this time |
she had not once been near the High |
school She kept up sort % sham |
study, and even went so far as 10 20 |
With her mother To buy her graduating /
lress. allowing that proud and happy /
mother 10 make a. Imagine the awak- |
ming Of those parents. when they
earned the reason oi there being no
liploma FOR their glrlt
Another kept up the same dcception
or three months before being found
,ut, and her punishment was indeed
'evere-she was made 10 so back 10
chool
II was good 20 note the Interest the
mothers and fathers were taking In the
egistering Of their children. Fathers
we're getting on from work Just long
nough 10 see this happy bit Of business
properly attended TO, mothers leaving
heir work and small children 10 Wit
less the enrolment Of the older ones
or their winters work. Ambitious
'arenis walked the halls. trying TO
rowd their girls and boys. with work
90 great for their health and mental
billy. And there too. we're the par
nts ready 90 make any sacrifice. IN |
rider 10 keep tho children I'm school.
cady 70 deny themselves the common
ecessiiIes. I'm order % provide shoes
nd books out ~ their small stipend.
One man had lost HIS wlfe. bat for
he sake Of his four boys. was making
brave effort 10 keep the home going J
5 ~ old while they attended school. !
he boys are doing the homework.
ven the cooking. the father helping
II he can when home from work.
There were the girls In their peck
boo waists and short sleeves. glanc-
tx at boys With bargy trousers. who
ere ysinly trying 60 look the college
ian: and there was the girl IN plain
lue Bingham. and tho boy with coat
10 small. with earnest. anxious faces
-ith thought for nothing but their
pming studies one country boy sure
Z appealed 10 all who saw him. he
al never been to school In town In
Is life. and he moved shyly about
IN his county diploma. seemingly
fraid Of the merest glance OF the
~ boy.
on the whole. the pupils were look
Il fresh and rosy and rested and
lille the strain Of the week told up
I them 20 considerable extent. IN tina,
ley were nervous. anxious frightened
I'd worried. yet they made far diff
rent appearance from the pale and
udy.worn pupils Of the spring.
Once upon a time, little rirl made
, her mind 10 run away from home,
she felt she could no longer stand
e cruel and inhuman treatment 81 a
iardian. So. tying up few
othos into a tiny bundle. she sat M.
the side 81 her little bed. till the
use was quite siill and slumbering
"a then climbed out q her window.
"A started. alas she knew not where,
tier walking about = mile a dog nan
!; a, her, and made night horrible Z