Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-07-12
THE SCHOOLGIRL SHOULD KEEP
A BIRTHDAY BOOK.

Remember Your Friends by Letter on
Their Birthdays - A Birthday
Shower Will Bring Pleasure to a
Lonely Schoolmate-Small Acts of
Kindness Bring Much Happiness
Brothers, Mothers and Fathers
Also Like Attention on Their
Birthdays.
BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Speaking of birthdays, do you re-
member how proud you were on the
day when you slipped out of IL into
10? That was a real milestone on the
road, and you felt a good deal taller
and much more important when you
were fairly in the teens than you did
in the first dozen years of your LIE.
Then, when 16 came and three more
of the wonderful white mile-stones
had been passed, you were again in a
different world. GirlEood has many
phases and changes and is altogether
a most interesting and fascinating pc
Rod both to those who stand by n
watch it, and to those who are N the
midst of its pleasant time.
l suppose that you have a birthday
book. Every girl should have one, so
that she may keep in mind the birth
days of the dear people at home, OF
teachers, friends, chums n every
body in whom she has some measure
of interest. 1t does not so much mat
ter what the name of the particular
birthday book is, but it should have
q sentiment in prose or verse for every
day in the year., and a blank space un-
der each date, where names OF friends
may be written.
Nothing gives more pleasure to a
friend at a distance than to receive
a letter from Bessie or Marjorie on
the morning of a birthday, a letter
carrying good wishes, a message OF
cheer and an assurance OF love. IL
Wilhelmina in South Dakota on a
ranch, ten miles from a neighbor,
shall have dropped into her lap on
the morning of her fifteenth birthday
a letter from Caroline in Tennessee
containing a pressed flower, a book
mark, or merely four pages of merry
chat, her heart will glow with new
warmth the live-long day. She will
know that Caroline took trouble fol
her and that she went to the pos
office and found out precisely how
many days it would take for her let
ter to reach it's destination. Caroline
living in a village with neighbour
close by, could hardly appreciate hov
lonely Wilholmina sometimes felt, blu
she had bridged over the space be
tween by her word in season.
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Does there happen to be among you
acquaintance a girl whom everybod,
loves, or a girl who has few relative
and is far from home, or a girl VIII
is tired and dropping, or still anothe
shut in by illness and compelled to 81
still by the hour instead of goin
about as you do at her own swee
will? Any one of these girls woul
be made extremely happy if her class
mates or her friends should send her
birthday shower. Suppose you begi
to plan it two or three weeks in ad
vance of the date. You will the
choose the place where the shower !
to be given. If at the girls own homt
, her friends will meet there and TAX
her by surprise, although they will b
wise If they give a hint beforehand t
her mother or older sister as to thei
: intention. ~
Surprises may fall on a househol
at an inconvenient moment, and 1t
generally better to take the head {
} the family into confidence before pre-
: ceeding with them. The girl herse
nias be kept very properly in ignol
+, an e Of the compliment that is to /
'..fI her. Brides often have shower
cf linen or china before their weddin
days, but / see no reason why othe
people may not have showers, to-
Yours to your friend who has a brit
day may include plants, photograph
flowers in bloom, books, bon bons {
anything else that you choose
bring, and the greater the variety IL
more pleasing the occasion will be.
u A girl I knew had a birthday shov
;, err given her and years after 1t, lool
ing over a box of souvenirs, she four
/ among other little things that he
been put away, a bit of cardboard vii
: a Latin motto worked in steel beat
II and stitched carefully to a piece
u white satin ribbon. The gi-I who hs
worked it for her was by that tin
u on the other side of the globe and thu
/ had not seen or heard from one a
d other in a long time, but the mo.
with its quaint message of unchan
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