Show A school girls romance I 1 suppose normal schools aiila of the generation arc not rad icalla from of my day human nature is the same the world over and normal school girls are not exempt from pride of dress of wealth of superior beauty and high social position soine times they too plainly show contempt for those less favorably situated these reflections bring to mind a pale delicate looking girl in one of the lower classes who was always shabbily dressed many of the girls looked down upon her and in their forced intercourse greeted her coldly and almost dia courteously she was 1191 a very bright scholar and evidently main stained her position was always near the end of the class by persistent and dogged effort one day in ro sponge to the daily roll call absent was registered opposite her name and it was several days before inquiry being made as to the cause her history became known sho was fatherless and her consumptive mother pinched and planned and worked and saved to keep her at school long enough to ho graduated and obtain a teachers certificate the mothers feeble strength was insufficient to entirely provide for their maintenance but she struggled on manfully and the girl assisted her to bear lifes heavy burden they worked at and minute that could possibly be spared out of school hours was devoted to unremitting toil this cause of deriu sufficiently prepared lessons the double strain was too much for her however and a virulent fever laid her low when the kab n there was a reaction in the class the better and kindlier feelings of the girla were aroused and quickened into life and when paler and frailer than ever before the object of their sometime pity and contempt returned to school sha received a greeting that brought the tears of to her eyes it is not strange that cheered strengthened and encouraged by the love and of her classmates the thorny path of learning had more of roses in it for her she was never brilliant but by patient and persistent study she was at last enabled to graduate her ambitious plans did not end here however and upon the death of her mother about a year after she obtained a position in the public schools she began little by little to save out of her scanty salary enough to take a course in medicine she graduated with honor and on the occasion of my visit last december to a thriving new england town I 1 met her this pale patient girl now become a woman honored respected and in the possession of a lucrative practice hers is no isolated case it is true that the same combination of circumstances may not have occurred to any other pupil but a large percentage ef the graduates earned their diplomas by strict economy hard work and patient self denial on the part cither of themselves 0 r their parents philadel jyels |