Show everyday resolutions for all health and safety set your health standards itan darda high and improve your habits dally modern modem life hie demands strength and ana energy a sound mind in a sound body worthy home membership magnify your home as the center of a life that Is happy useful and unselfish home la is the be son soil in which the spirit grows mastery of the tools and spirit of learning know how bow to observe t to study to think to plan to judge and to act the world Is run by thinkers and doers vocational and economic Econ omle effectiveness find your talents and train iraln them spend wisely less than you earn eam faithful citizenship do something dally to mate make your school your community your state your country and your world happier cleaner quieter more beautiful better governed each lor for all and all lor for each wise als 0 use of 0 leisure let your dally daily play be a source of joy and strength a balance wheel for your work cultivate growing things fresh air sunshine and simplicity ethical character search for the highest values and build your life according to the best patterns read bead often the lives of great men and women character is king NATIONAL educational JOURNAL office ot of superintendent possibly it news to the readers ot of these columns that the state tendency of public instruction Is a political office in the election of november there was a candidate on the republican ticket and one on the democratic the republican candidate dr C N X jensen was reelected re elected fortunately he Is an efficient and scholarly leader this Is a mere matter of good luck utah may not be so lucky in the next election in a survey of the education in utah made by the national department of interior under the direction of john J commissioner of education a recommendation Is made that the method of choosing the state superintendent be changed that the be taken out of politics this commission recommends that the state board of education appoint the state superintendent there la Is developing in the united states a new and enlarged conception of education and with this new development a new importance attaches to the states chief educational of officer ticer the type ot of educational leadership called tor for requires ability to administer problems of modem school administration and organization generally special educational problems such as industrial and vocational education school sanitation educational legislation interrelation of the elementary and high schools etc the supe superintendents r office Is not a clerical a statistical tt one which can well be political rather than professional in character the commission therefore thinks that the state superintendent under the new regime should be removed as tar far as possible from the influence and interference which arise through party or other political forces in the state what do you think about it 4 40 4 daxl gladys a dys F fietcher getce h e r D dorothy 0 r ot hy do don n G grace r a c e paxton A an and d betty t t y S sheen h e e n all e connected 0 nn e et e d with the record office distinguished themselves last week by furnishing the major portion of the junior program all the numbers were musical two quartets two piano duets two saxophone solos the girls have proved that writers can also be musicians 4 0 40 0 nyda wallace reports society novel again nyda wallace has written the best book review this time she reported rays vanity fair a society novel her review follows the title appeals to my interest because a it I 1 Is so unusual I 1 wondered how bow it could be applied in a story I 1 wanted to know whether the title alluded to a fair or to vanity and vain people it Is connected with the story the majority of the characters are vain vanity vanity fair seems to be a play in which the characters are the actors the author is the manager and the reader Is the audience the me story Is unfolded as in a play and the author during the progress of the story alludes to it as this vanity fair of ours vanity fair Is portrayed as a vain place full of pretensions the majority of the events are in england and the rest in france and bel jeglum glum respectively it fits into life of the past the people wore wigs three cornered hats various colored waistcoats waist coats neck clothes hessian boots and wooden shoes the people used coaches with footmen to trav travel I 1 in and swords to fight with it was in the days when rum wine claret and beer were used to drink by everyone and water was merely to wash in it happened durl during ng the french revolution when napoleon bonaparte was wag emperor of prance france the characters are improbable to a certain extent they are too wholly without virtues people as a general rule have more virtues than the characters in vanity fair have in this sense they are improbable but in regards to spontaneous expressions of love hatred sorrow and despair they act ac t as people do today they do not express themselves mechanically chani cally in actions and speech they use their talents to advantage in order I 1 to better themselves financially and socially as most people strive to do today at the opening of the story a girl of ft A well to do family la Is re turing home from boarding school bringing an orphan friend with her after six years absence she is re turing a young lady ready to be married off by her parents it Is a commonplace opening as girls are doing practically the thes same thing every day As th the story estory proceeds however it becomes improbable the following events happen to complicate the plot rebecca sharp endeavors to win joseph sedley george osborne fell falls in love with amelia sedley rebecca rebec c a sharp Is engaged as governess for the crawlers Craw leys at queens crawley rebecca marries rawdon crawley the sod sed leys lays are plunged into bankruptcy george osborne marries amelia against her bar fathers athora wishes osborne st sr disinherits osborne Oe borne jr osborne jr is killed in the french revolution amelia la Is widowed and returns to her home both amelia and rebecca have two sons cons rebecca and rawdon crawley are welcomed back to queens crawley rebecca reinstates herself and rawdon in III the new barnet crawlers Craw leys favor y matters were brought to a climax when lady jane and sir pitt patt crawley continued on rage pg rive five school reports continued from page one send a welcoming letter to rebecca and rawdon the ending Is as happy as could be expected for this type ot of book the main characters are satisfied two of the main characters die but nobody mourns tor for them the ending Is not satisfactory because it just leaves off where more Is expected to be told tod of the exploits and happenings leaves the characters in s a certain position and does not tell what happens after I 1 think something should have been told about rawdon and rebecca crawley when they return to queens crawley it should have told whether rebecca attained her lifelong life long iong ambition of being introduced introduce of into court society or not and how they evaded their basty increasing creditors it should have told something of what happened to the sons ot of amelia and rebecca end and whether captain dobbin married the lady that was trying to win him that would have been doubly interesting because he was in love with amelia the ending Is sudden because it leaves off right when I 1 expected more to be told it leaves off just when rawdon and rebecca are getting ready to go to queens crawley that one particular point which was not related w was as to decide the whole outcome of rebeccas and Raw dons lives the main characters are the whole family of crawlers Craw leys rebecca Re becce sharp amelia sedley joseph sedley osborne sr george osborne jr captain dobbin and mr and mrs sedley they act as real people in the expression of themselves they do not act aci mechi cally they de decleve cieve love hate cheat fight and strive for wealth arid and social positions as people do in real life I 1 dont like any of the characters very well captain dobbin Is about the most likeable one with the least faults A although he Is a rough awkard looking fellow he is kind hearted he takes rebuffs b U effs from his friends in silence and helps them all he can the two I 1 like least died so rebecca crawley Is about the most disagreeable character that lived she was such a mean scheming little creature she flatters ers cajoles and deceives people in order to gain her desires she care what happens to other people through b her r actions as long as she gains h her r 0 own I 1 ambitions she puts on a mask of kindness love and cleverness in order to gain wealth and a social position while deep down in her heart she actually hates everyone but herself she is kind and agreeable to those only whom she can use 1180 as a means for achieving her selfish desires narration predominates because the author narrates the story of the characters T the e following quotations attracted roe me most the me world Is a lookingglass looking glass and rives gives back to every men man the reflection ol of ibis his own face frown at it and it will li in l i turn look upon you laugh fit at it or w with it h it and it Is a jolly kind companion and so let all perso x zake lake their choice mother Is tho the name nam e tor for god in the lips and hearts of little children and b hero 1 re was one who was wor shipping a stone they marked him as he on onward w p prest r st fabj with fainting inting ta heart and we weary ard 1 limb 1 kind voices bade him turn and rest and gentle faces welcomed him the dawn Is up the guest Is gone the cottage hearth Is blazing still heaven pity all poor wanderers lone I 1 hark to the wind upon the will bill there ate are many lessons and morals illustrated lust rated tn in vanity fair it teaches us the dlf difference ference between a sordid love and true love love that awakens at the call of riches and social positions and love that comes straight from the heart under any conditions whatever are portrayed one loves because through professing love that one may attain wealth it teaches us that this love is basely wrong and that we would always be living a life tor for which our own soul would condemn us it teaches that we should not cot pretend t to 0 be that which we are not there are many different so called social classes and we should endeavor to be received into the class that is true and good not one that Is constructed of people trying to put a front of elegance and be something which consists of falseness and pretension it teaches us to love people for themselves and not as the means of obtaining selfish desires we wa should not let our affections rush out to meet and welcome money and kind sentiments awaken spontaneously towards the posses possessors S ors of it we should not cast away our friends who have helped us because we may attain a higher position tha than n they and then cast them away for new friends whom we may meet in any higher position those friends who love us when we are their equal are lar far better than those who would desert us as soon as we lose our wealth it teaches that wealth and social positions do not constitute all bap happiness in life that these are mere shells of happiness and that those who cannot obtain thess these are lust just as happy as those that obtain theirs through tameness tas fas eness I 1 liked the book because it teaches so many lessons that are grave errors even today I 1 like the way y in which the author portrays the story as a play every once in a while throughout the book the author philosophizes on life and the characters c these philosophies are very interesting and teaches many lessons he sketches characters and defines the faults and lessons he pictures the life of 01 the aristocrats and shows that they are false and baser than the common people he r shows hows how they practice deceit in order to earn a living the book makes one wonder about the life of the author because he writes of characters that are v and about the deceit falseness pretension and wrong that Is in the world it seem as though he has had many bitter experiences that enable him to define the wrongs of the human character so accurately I 1 like the way that the story includes the personality of the he author ile he uses the word ool odious lous throughout through out the whole book and applies it t to everything detestable although that is s not a grave error yet it becomes very monotonous and vexing I 1 dont like the way he ends this volume so suddenly ile he makes likes the tha characters too virt ueless yet his wonderful philosophy lessons and definitions of the human character as so valuable to us that they make up tor for those few errors SHEEN 30 |