Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-09-06
BY MARGARET E. sANcsrER

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Promotion days. whether thew or.
cur In mfdwinter or in late spring. are
red letter days Everybody is pleased
when we are promoted, ourselves most
OF all. 1t is impossible to avoid a
feeling Of satisfaction and delight
when at the end of some weeks or
months we discover that we have not
been working in vain, and that we
have actually gone one round higher
up on the ladder. A SCHOOLGIRL is
just as much pleased when she leaves
Division B for Division A or advances
a grade, and has as good a right to
be pleased about it as the lieutenant
when he becomes captain, the cap
tain when he gains the rank Of major.
and the major when people salute him
as colonel, and so on.
Promotion is sign to everyone in
our world that we are favorites of
fortune, and good soldiers as we'll. In
the battles Of life 1t is a right and
proper thing to strive for promotion.
Occasionally when girl has done her
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duty and fulfilled every task through
out term, she fails of promotion.
The powers that be, looking over her
work, decide that it will be for her
advantage in the end to wait awhile
and not too early push forward into
region where difficulties beyond her
strength must be encountered Their
decision is sure to be disappoint-
ment to the girl, particularly if she
belong to the set of girls who are nat
urally conscientious and diligent She
will feel mortified that her compan-
ions are to be ahead Of her and that
she must remain in line with younger
girls or with those who have been
below her. She feels as if everyone
were staring at her, and as if dull
ness were written upon her forehead.
There goes Ethel" she fancies peo-
pie saying. "Poor girl, she was not
promoted" If she have foolish
mother she may be persuaded to let
her daughter leave the school and
start afresh in another, always a very
unwise thing to do, if the only rea-
son for the change be that the pupil
must stay where she is long enough
to lay broad and deep foundations.
Foolish mothers, let me say, and
foolish fathers, too, are very much to
blame for the way they interfere with
teachers who, as rule, know pretty
well what attainments students have
made and what they can make.
A year is long stretch of time
when girl is in her early teens. 1t
will not look so very long in years
to come. Twelve months fit by very
rapidly. l have known pupil who
did not make promotion in a certain
year to overtake her friends by and
by and surpass them even to the skip
ping class. She had gained the
ability to progress very rapidly in the
end, because she had been extremely
thorough with the work that answered
to the corner stone of the building in
her education.
When we are promoted we accept
new responsibilities with our honors.
More is expected from us to-day than
was exacted yesterday. We are to set
good examples to those who look up
to us, and there isn't anything much
harder in this world than to be obliged
to set a good example. Think of it,
girls! YOU are not to be irritable or
fault-indirg to be unpunctual or care
less, to be sketchy instead of thor
ough, or untidy instead of neat. Those
who belong to the upper classes are
to be patterns for lower classes to imi-
tate. In some schools there is sys-
tenn of self-government prevalent
through the school, and the girls Of
the senior and sub-senior departments
are its arbiters and managers, and