Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-28
Copyright by James El,erson.,
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and so go flying through the air to
home again. And we can hardly
wonder at it.
10 pc turned out of the parental nest at
an early age to pick up education at board
ing school, surrounded by strange faces and
eoVerhed by unfamiliar and unwelcome rules
IS neavy trial to sensitive nature. Happy
are tne girls whose people live in large ed,
ca1onai centres. and who never need expert
ehce nome-sickness. because they can find
a mna. Is needed in the way of learning in the
next street.
annie is not one of that lucky number
After every holiday. when she returns te
scnooi, she weeps all the wav in the trair
! Lenei. TOO, not only does the same, but LETT
h.u Ii .ears now for days-last term it was a
: iun iortnight-after her arrival Winnie weeps
When sne gets letter from home and when
one gSes letter that isn't from home, for
wo.,os nu O.ner reason. than because it isn't she
homn agaih. And when you speak about
a. a. tney were .grown-up people listening to
the familiar strains of "Auid Lang Syne.S :
oome girls are more prone than others to
sor,o nUmie-sickness, much in the same way that
sVhe are more liable than their neighbors to
attacks OF measles and scarlet fever.
glrl OF resolute temper can hardly even
iean1e Wnat 1t means. When she leaves
ho4ie ho1 there are tears in her eyes maybe,
i"so Iue sue brushes them away and calls in phi
losopny to hight against what she looks on as
Her grief never lasts beyond the first few
@piles-not @ that she does not love home. but
J,,rad wnat can't be cured must be en-
uurea, e and 1t is her nature always to make
the best of things. ""'' " NiaAe
one is not without feeling. but she has
learned early one of the most important les
word Ior . our comfortable passage through the
Delng overset by triHes -
Not a few girls, however, are naturally dis
posed TO gloom, and when clouds come along.
TSs, 11ey pay pay attention only to the dark side.
l. hey are sometimes so in love with depres-
sion that to cheer them up looks like robbinq
them of their joy. 'i'>e io'0i'e
II a girl OF this sort goes to school, she is
sure 70 90 SO with a heart Overlooking with
grlghi' ;th an ana 1t IS hard to feel much sympathy
whatever her name is-"why are you look
ing, SO glum?" she can give no reasonable
reply. oie
Some tears would move stone to pity,
put hers are not of that Sort
a girl. however. one has deem feeling for
Is the tlmid and retiring character, afraid of
strangers, and SO shy, perhaps as to be
startled by the sound of her own voice, who
goes to school like a girl driven into banish-
ment. Her hankering after the home with
which she is familiar, and the friends with
whom she is intimate, mounts to the height
OF passion, and to be in exile and to have
eAchangeu, IL may be, perfect liberty for con-
tions Niea' aiiii'
Z She has not, yet had the experience which
shows that, whether we like it or not sepa-
ration Is an incident which we must all learn
through the world, we find that life IS made
up OF partmgs, and that we must steel our
hearts to face what is inevitable.
fortunately, the tears of youth do not. as
rule, last long, and in the first STAGES Of
existence the heart has great capacity for
getting over depressing events.
For day or two girl may resemble the
heavy that the chair broke down % under S her r.
but she quickly becomes volatile enough for
anything And, cnriously enough She who
mas suffered from the greatest depressions Of
melancholy is often seen to rise afterward to
the greatest elevations of cheerfuIness SIS and
A good cry once in awhile is not an en-