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Show School Notes. - H i ,,Sovcn hundred: and ten pupils were' H enrolled in our schools last week. H On Monday tho 21st of this month '. new department was opened to accom- M niodatu pupils of tho IV grade. lone Gilchrist assumed charge of tho dopa rt- H Wo arc proud of our new ilag polo which H adorns the south 'peak of tlio central . M school house. Old Glory will take her H place thereon on tho first appropriate M occasion H Miss Louise Headquist and Miss H Joseph inu Studcbaek'er spent Thanks- H giving in Provo and Salt Lako City, re- H spcctively. H Now the busy aeason ia over parent". H should visit our schools during tho tima , H of regular school worx. Farents, a , "' short time spent in tho school will help H your children, the scfioof and the L? H teacher. ' H A small percentage of the pupils in H our school have not been absent or H tardy since school began this year. ' H Tjiis very condition becomes st once1 a H mobt potent iuiluenco for good char- H acter and training in business princi- ,: H plea for those pupils. We regret that H so ftw out of so mnnv childien can be hcv iH reiiorted. ,lt is impossible for every . . H chil(Tto uiakORUchhi-jecbrd, hawaver,ci55, . ' 'H we believe that many insufficient reas- "Lh otia keep children out of school. Ex- H cuaes audi as: We got up lato this morning." " wmit on an errand H and didn't get kooto in time to go to H school." "We wero so busy I kept H out to mind tho baby," etc. are often H received by teacherR as excuses for H absence. Pnronts are nil anxious to H hayo their childron grow up bright and H intelligent and would not willfully put , put any obstacle in the way of their becoming so, yet we woader if thoy , H fully lealizn the importance of exnetnesa and-promptitude in practice, in attend- L ing school as in performing any other duty or labor. Certainly pupils brought M up accustomed to half do any wcrk, to M furnish excuses little better than none I -.fl enn not form ptopor habits of study, not : yet of manual labor. Thio is a. profound educational principle inyolved ix the way our children attend' school. If ' education pays at all it pays to do the M work in such a way that proper results may follow. M |