Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-03
GIRLS SHOULD
KEEP IN TOUCH
WITH THE HOME
Those Who Live Away
Should Write and Wis
it Often.

TT OFTEN happens, much as it
| is to be deplored. that girls are
Compelled to live away from
home. Their own town or city
offers no opportunity to earn living
while neighboring city. which offers
lucrative employment cannot con-
veniently be reached every morning.
Consequently room near the
office is procured and life among
strangers begun. Old associations
and friends are missed, but none
more than the dear home folks,
father and mother, and perhaps sis
ters and brothers.
The new world they have plunged
into seems strange and oh, SO lonely!
And the new acquaintance, al
though they are kind, have thetS
own friends and their own living to
earn and are at the best rather in
different.
The zest with which a girl first
plunges into her work may provide
enough excitement to prevent hsme-
sickness, but when the novelty has
worn thin and she settles down to
her task alone and away from all
the old friends, away from the love
and cheer of the family circle, and
with no one to turn to for advice,
then is the time that she should
do all in her power to sweeten her
life and fill it with good cheer.
One of the greatest ways of &C
eomplishing this is to keep in close
touch and sympathy with the folks
at home by using the mails freely
The bes. means of keeping interest
In common with the home folks is in
correspondence.
write home often" is good ad-
vice for the little girl in strange
city. Keep in touch with the diff
ferent members, of the family. Tell
/ them what you are doing, and In the
letters sent home evince an inter-
est in the events and happenings OF
| the home town. Let them see that
you have not forgotten then one bit
and are just as anxious to know the
news of the home and home town
as though you were right there with
the folks.
Always when we are separated
from our family a sense OF lone
| illness steals over us at times. AT
place of amusement, in the midst
of difficult work, or a mind engross-
ing task, soft mantle of longing set
ties over the heart, longing for old
scenes and friends, longing fol
mothers kindly advice and the
brothers. friendly teasing.
A home letter will do much t.
lift such a mood and make one
bright and cheerful. But the key
note of the letter must be goot
cheer and love and the spirit o1
cneerfulness and kindness poured
out in the missive will reflect OF
ourselves, driving away and eradicat
ing the sense of lonliness and perhaps
i discoura cement.
The correspondence should bt
sunny ard readable. Any little in
, cident happening during the da
which You think would be of inter
, est to the home folks should b
jctted down, for you may be sur
> they are just as anxious to kno0
about your life in the strange cit
q as you are to be informed of tn
t changes and happenings among oil
!. friends, and all the intimate new
4 of the home town.
Don't write letters telling of
discouraged spirit, for you may b
sure the folks will know that 20
are lonely and are trying to kee
up a brave show of cheer and the
will respect you the more for fill
ing your letters with words Of Low
n and hope