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Show Social Amenities for the School Girl AIIUCT the most trying time in a girl s life are the first few i days at o new school. Especially Es-pecially is the Crst day a dml-ctilt dml-ctilt one for a new scholar. It seems to her as though every one Pb:o present had been to that school since earliest infuney, so friendly are all with each other and on such delightfully inti- mate terms uru they with that inspiring inspir-ing group of persons known as thej faculty. Not for some while is it borne i home that there are uite as many "new" girls as "old" ones and that the stranger dors not stand out alone, a conspicuous mark for dUect criticism. A ranger in a strange hmd indeed In the f cell eg of the- hrt day of the. school year for every new girl. Just how to act, how to be perfectly natural and appear as much at home and at ease as those girls who have been some winter Itefore, this is the great desire of every new girl. The isjmfort and happiness of the new seholar depend entirely of course upon the altitude taken toward them by the girls who are not new. Age limit anil elans distinct ion are both swept away on the first day, ami tin.- only way for a year to be started in well is for each one of the old gills to realize that upon her shoulders rests the responsibility of creating a pleasant welcome end goodwill. good-will. Not the new comer but the one who is ut home and feels happily at her ease must make the advances. The larger the seined, of course, the more difficult dif-ficult the situation for the stranger and the more there is for the obi girls to do. Introductions certainly are not. to be waited for. Formality baa no part iu school life. The fact that the samu . seh'Mil has been scb-tted as the best by ( , dilt'ereut parents is introduction enough .for tin? daughters, but it is the girl who h.is been to the school before wbo should i first few days at a large school. w!iir slm must prove her powers before sl, will stand out nt all from the other hundred hun-dred or more scholars. With the teachers scholarship Is ltoiind to count most at first; with the girls friendliness and 9 not too reserved or critical mamier b sun- to win popularity. Another point for the new girl t: bear in mind is not to grumblo about hi c laxsitii ation. There probably lievei was a girl yet who was wholly sntislic-i: with her clashes on the lirst day of t school year. Hither she complains tlia the lessons will be too bard for her 01 sbe feels assured that she is worthy o! 1 being placed 111 n more advanced class. The girl who is wise will say nothint 'of this for-at least the first two week and then, if she feels she really Is cap able of more work or that the class h j which d:e has been placed is too hlsl for her, she can always be given ai examination, which will prove her petti beyond further question. In a sma! school or a private clnM the teacher wil iknow pretty cjuickly juat what a scholn 'is capablo of, but in n larger school ,with a different teacher for each scpsnh study, it will naturally take a longei I time for the possibilities of each pupii to be known. I I'.i.iasling and underestimation are both bound to be fouud out in a khort while, .and it will be infinitely better in the cnJ , for the girl who waits and nllows hn 'powers to be discovered than for her wbr I from the fu st d.iy is dissatisfied am. jwants her grade to be hanjf"d ut once giving no time to see just how eny 01 how difliciilt th. lessons will prove. Of I ten those which at first scein simples will reinire more preparatory work, an ice versa. Let the new girl remember then ou hc-t first few ilnys that of nil thmus her attitude at-titude must not be one of criticism eitliei toward her teachers, her fellow bcLoIari |