Show I i Evening Chit-Chat Chit BY RUTH EUTH CAMERON I ti RIVE HIVE doors your our daughters out o 01 f Tha That's t my advice t D all mothers of young girls In 1 hight school I t think the way In whIch t end many study and grind A toll over a nd toll j j oer r leSIons sp In n high s. Is ah absolutely ly absurd It ii not BO so bad In coll college ge for the period Of rapid fl growth w an and rt gt is But p 1 enters sn collet school chool a Kir girl mother to In spend pend l to t allow her ilow ra a high afternoon and maybe a a. large part o of Q r. r uH h. h her eV even In K yM over tr her books li fe mile little short of crime Perhaps y you o u r daughter wants t to bring home a fine report rt re- re report port t card Then t tell tel her t that If she can n nt do It without undue ef effort et- et k fort you ou will be glad but that If she cannot can can- not nor you prefer rosy I u cheeks to As ant and andI I bright eyes ees to honors e g Of course cours there are arc plenty of ambi- ambi fro d girls w who do donot i not In the I least ast need neet ors y ii to be restrained and some ome brilliant who can win the honors honors hon hon- ors without paying too highly for them but out I am not speaking of such cases In an academy near where I 1 live the ejr girl w who won th the valedictory and the girl who won the salutatory last spring both broke down before the term was ended and were unable to deliver their commencement parts Isn't that a R tremendous object lesion son The president of Mt It Holyoke college saR 11 that man many girls come to her saying i ie we We e dont don't understand how bow it Is Is but we can cant can't t sit elt up nl nights and study the l a way we used to In high school We Ve always s 's I used d to do It there Just It it she answers them You You always did It when you OU shouldn't have and now of course you ou cant And because you ou overtaxed your strength then now when you need It so 0 much you OU haven't an any If If I had a girl of 14 or 15 or 16 said aid saida a n prominent woman doctor discussing the case of a sickly little bookworm she he was trying to bring back to health Id Pd try to have t her climb trees and Jump fences and be Just as much of a tomboy as aa she possibly could A mind developed at the expense e of a weakened body becomes like ilkI a artisan ar ar- Usan condemned always to work with blunted tools Mental vigor vl however r abundant can C'an never ne accomplish all It ft might without physical vigor to support It t. t Health some great writer has said Is a crown on the head of the healthy no one sees It but the sick Take your our daughters daughter's books awa away drive her out of doors and In ever every way youcan YOUcan YOU vou can see to It that she may be ba on one on who unconsciously wears this fair rail crown and end not of those who sadly It en the head held of another 72 J wA 11 AI I |