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Show if I SOCIAL AMENITIES FOR M ' i if H THE SCHOOL GIRL fi : f UADUATION day is nearly here and f :t ilsoou the school -girl will be quite I grown up and cm no longer be treated i ; ? is a small child excusable from every m jc fault on the plea or youth. A new dignity iy 3; vill be looked for in a graduate of school lA y r college. From now on a girl must re- g, I ' nember that her every notion will be ff ' udged from the same standards as those "jl i vhich rule and govern all older persons. It. i After nil. the long years at school were ; ut a fitting for just this lime. The dull- Jl wt and mo-Jt diUJcult lessoiiH wero given y ;t iore for the mental training than for the fy ictual cut and dried book knowledge, dc- 4 j fived from them, and just so far as a girl VI has been conscientious with her studies V -i will hIic he the better ahlo to Into her A p-jsition in the putsidu world as a woman J -I ftith high ambitions and splendid ideals. 3 Not one day of tclf-indulgenco .hould j i be allowed to pass by after commcncc- l : stent withont an effort being inude to pur jito practice in home life the rules and 'i "I itandardn of the f-chool room. At the t beginning of the wonderful last vacation -? 1 Ihere will be a tremendous temptation l' J lJ slump absolutely for a little while on the k plea of fatigue, but for tlic girl who would do well in the world there la noth- mK ing more fatal tlmu even n short Indul- W"3 igcnce in real Mjlfishness, Once one lets tf ( 'go it will be very hard to tako up .igain 5H lle old practice of doing all the duties at wkf hand, and many a girl whose school rec crd ha? Iicen most brilliant has amounted to nothing nt all afterward, for the Kim pie reason tlui soe permitted herself to rest too long after her return home to a life of pure luxury. The first thing a. girl should do after her return from boarding school or collego is to map out a plan of action for her days and then to keep to thib scheme as closely as possible. While ouo is still accuj-tomed accuj-tomed to a life of routine, It will bo ea-iy to fit ono's time to best advantage, but he longer this is put off the more dilllciilt will it become to accomplish certain dutic- regularly, and right now a girl should realize that duties nf any form whatever to be well done should bo done with system sys-tem and order. In every household, no matter how larye the family, there is a place and a definite work for each, nud the sooner a girl finas or makes for herself her sphere the happier hap-pier will she be herself ami the happier will she make those about her For the firett few days nud perhujrs for the first few Vtcka loafing will seem delightful, but nothing palla more quickly than the pleasure of havlug nothing to do, and tho most contented girls in the world are those who have their entire dny$ planned In sections, sec-tions, with, of course, hurs left for pleas-urea pleas-urea as well as for tasks. Th circumstance of oery home are naturally different. Every firl has dif ferent conditions to cope with. Where there is only one girl ut home noturully her duties are more numerous than thoxe of a daughter in n household of many sisters. sis-ters. Where there nre many servants the tnbks also arc different, hut there is Just ns wide a field of usefulness In a marble palace as in n liny cottage for the daughter daugh-ter who would he of help to others. There are also social duties and demands de-mands which a girl can now no longer afford to neglect. A long list of friends nnd even acquaintances will 'irove invaluable invalu-able in every walk of life, and now thut she has left school the daughter should lake an interest and pride in the hundred and one little points of etiquette and apparently ap-parently unimportant little social demands de-mands which the mother has leen wo busy and too tired to nttend to hersolf of late. The ovcrconscicntions girl should not feel that an hour or two a day given over to pleasant intercourse with her ehums Is time wasted, but her opposite, on the other hand, must uot spend too much time in idle gossip without even a bit of embroidery in hor hands as excuse for the lime thus forfeited. Itesolve, you college oud school graduates, gradu-ates, that in your coming free lifu "the unforgning minute" shnll indeed be Oiled with "sixty seconds' worth of distance run," Bnd the chances for you will then be a long and happy, and, best of nil, useful use-ful span of years. |