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Show School Girls of Long Ago. I chanced to find an old school book which probably had never been opened since its owner, a girl student, died forty years ago. The book was filled with loose sheets of paper covered with handwriting uniform and beautiful. There were drawings of plants and their separate leaves and flowers. There were carefully written Dotes of lectures, copies of poems which were fresh then, but have now become standard stand-ard selections. Some difficult mathematical mathe-matical problems were also worked out, and the whole was the work of an earnest ear-nest student. My conclusion was, as I reverently laid aside the book, that will is stronger than circumstances. The high school girl of today, bright as she is, cannot show better work than this New England farmer's daughter, of what our girls would term "long ago." New England Farmer. |