| Show 1 Schoolgirls at at Commencement Season BY MARGARET E SANGSTER You ought to have good times limes at commencements girls You have had plenty of hard hord study and really siren work dur ng the school year anti and when commencement comes it is a good deal more to you than just an op opportunity opportunity to receive your i lomas The diplomas are testimonials of your merit and they have value ndue for that reacon A girl carrying ing home di diploma diploma ploma with its signatures of teachers and examiners has a right to be and happy If she care enough about this Utis certificate of progress to have bave it framed anti aud hung in her own room it will always be a souvenir of the bri bright ht est eat period of h her r life Inless it It is framed It may be lost to view YO You may have jolly and genial days later on but never an r wili he be more thor thoroughly delightful than those ou I have ne passed in the schoolroom in your our early teens The diploma is a mil miLestone stone that marks days Clustering around commencement are an ana area a number of functions each and all of which are extremely pleasant to girls who have kept pace together day by byda da day week b by week for ten months or of orthe the twelve In some schools there is a ceremony ony of or lug at commencement nt and as e each cn class brings its spade and trowel se selects selects a s sot Ot for Its vine or tree and sings its song of joy older people look looking looking ing on have a vision of the future Ten or twenty years ears hence where shall shaH this merry company be and what changes will have taken place In this cheery circle of ga gay young girls Who knows One timing thing is certain the girls girla who plant the ivy will never forget their school and now anti and then Ulen they will return to it to renew the old as associations y Very e likel likely in da days s to come girls like you will bring casts and pictures to adorn the walls or of the recitation rooms and assembly rooms that have meant so much In time the be beginning beginning ginning of their cae careers rs Class day with its informality and fun is one of the most a agreeable ceable f tea tures of the commencement season Ir In Order to have Ilave It suc successful those who take part In exercises should hould be e carefully chosen In a irit or of good humored banter the girls pho Nho write the class history and the class pro prophecy prophecy must hit bit off points in the char character aeter acter or of their friends No one In time the class is exempt from the merry nerr com cent ment not itt in the least malicious but alwa always s t describes each girl in tUrn Ever Even the teachers and are no exempt from the gay ay raillery of cla class s day A teacher who is passed on over r in solemn silence is probably on of n e color colorless loss less persons who do little harm in the world and also little good I Last St year a girl n neighbor of mine gave ve me a Dee peep beforehand into th the cl class s and h had been l from the clover v r brains of the das dats commIttEe I did rot not won wonder tier der that when these facetious ro itt Wet were e given in the presence nce or of orthe the doss the laughter was immoderate ate N Never Yer is laughter so anti and so free n never VEr are jt ts so wen well as im 11 class clas day in a school where the girls 01 ore In Intimately an and understand nd r aU all one n others little ways was vanities lit little littie tie tle tricks of gc gesture ture little oddities or of manner have their ri te ni niche he hein in the class history But class are at attempt attempted tempted tempt d there rp re often flashes of si silence i lence in the middle of toe the mirth No matter how high runs the tid tide of fun nobody can f forget that after corn com merc there will wil he be anti and goodbyes that girs wio have shared the same seat Eat may go on one tu to the east and nd one to the wc west t and that the every everyday companionship will he be at atan atan an end Some time during comm if practicable her should oe be a feast Let the table be decorated wIth in t the he class colors anti l when the ian s have be been n discussed d With the hearty appetite that belongs belons by right to ever every schoolgirl let the t tress tres do h her r part She must net leave leavean an thir to the Some days das previous to the fe t the must make a list of sentiments te to the time and place and or orrange range with certain girls so that they wilL be ready to respond A break In I the speeches ma may be pleasantly made madely ty ly the of class s1 S and i there are one or two musical gins w i 1 ican can play the violin or mandolin PI or orthe the banjo let them contribute some som to the Ule You win will find it a good tood plan Ln when ner you OU nave a f function Q of any kind ahead of you to provide rov care for every dett JJ should he be left to accident When days are on r rn and n start yer preparations n fr ton new whether hether It be a vac tion journey or a little keeping n a visit to or f country cousIns or some special lal work that will m fit you ou for or a bi higher h r institution tion of karning do not let go Y 1 r hot Ibid or of the old ft fJ lends Tb Those who h hiie live in the same town ton will naturally meet often Ts Those who 00 reside in spart p rt will III find less and as this is a great pity And anda a sort of waste it i is well to neD keep t th fire of friendship alight by means or of correspondence often to one another and bit the small bits of news th that t mean nothing to the gr great t world but much to girls Who ho Me have been good corn com comrades rades BelIeve me girls on the road of life you ou and I will find few things more worth orth while hile th than n comradeship If your our school chool does not teach yoU tow to live Jive lovingly and unselfishly with ith others does not make your courteous and and ready to lend a hand band it has not been the best of schools Geography history and mathematics are very ery wen well In their way but none of us us can get along without philosophy and poetry th the other names for which are patience and politeness Says Mother Goose The king was In the parlor counting out his money The queen wa as in the kitchen eating bread and honey Underneath the homely sta stanza there is a stratum of truth Perhaps it ma manot may not be your lot o 0 spend pend very much time in the parlor counting out golden coins with the king but your work will ill surely lie in the kitchen somehow and some somewhere hert making bread and sor spread d ing Jt It as the queen did with honey for yourselves and your deer dear ones If YOU are bright students in time the you ou will m be bright homemakers homemaker by and by adding honey to the daily bread of life Ufe Copyright b by Joseph B Bowles |
