Connecticut western news., 1910-10-20
Social Amenities,
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the members of the school body closer attention must be given to acquiring popularity as we'll as good reports.
 There is only one method of keeping up to standard, be it applied to char acter or to scholarship. and that is never to be discouraged as failure, Because the mark was poor one day is no req. son for ceasing to try for the rest of the month. We always may be what we might have been" IS an excellent motto to remember. No matter what has gone before, it can always be made up for by little extra hard work. Poor work the first part of the month, followed by excellent marks the last two weeks, will give oreditable showing, but how very bad the report that shows the lessons to have been so difficult at first that the girl ceased even to try
 The first part of the school year is par ticularly difficult and trying if one is new scholar, and the situation is es- 1 pecially confusing for a girl who goes I of some importance, to a large school, where she has to prove her worth before she will amount to anything at all Dur. ing the first few days 1t will be but a blurred impression of new faces, new les. sons and new methods of work, and she can only hope that by studying us best she can and by doing all in her power to return every advance with equal friendli- ness she can earn some place for her. self in the regard of those with whom she comes in contact Just ut first this will be all she can do, but latter it will be possible to discriminate. She will soon see that she is going to te liked better by some girls than by others, and she will find some of the lessons far easier to ob- tain good marks in than others.
 Although few realize it this is really a crucial stage in the new year. It is so pleasant to work hard at the lessons that
 are easy, even prehaps neglecting the others for the sake of the perfect marks
 on this one study. Just so with the girls
 that one likes at once-they make life so
 delightful that it is not worth while to
 bother about any one else. But these
 are just the wrong paths to popularity
 and success.
 To be really successful it is necessary to be proficient in all that is undertaken
 In school the very studies which are most . difficult and seem most impossible to do well in should be given strictest atten- , tion until, after few weeks of hard work, their rudinents have been mas.
 tered. their difficulties overcome and am
 other subject can be approached with the
 same spirit. There may be no brilliant marks at all for the first few weeks or , even months by this method, but the re suits at the end of the years work will , show that the plan is a good one.
 In working for popularity among one s , schoolmates just the same principle 7 should be applied. The girl who has shown no attempt to be friendly-per. , haps has even gone to the other extreme should be the very one chosen for cam. paign against unfriendliness. How much 1uOIc Ol h hAhhlph VI OS hhSa " 0h0 , who was at first indifferent than by her
 who was attracted from the first To
 win one by one the affection of , every girl in the schoolis not an impos- sible task, but if there is any whom one ? feels an enemy she should be the first F to be approached. There must have , been reason for her dislike. and the 5 sooner the cause is discovered and killed the better for the happiness of both com !, cerned.
 With the motto of success ringing in her ears, We always may be what we : might have been, and the two words ? failure" and "can't" struck out of her |. vocabulary girl can start her new year 3 equipped for victory in whatever direo. [ tion her inclination may call