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SELF-DISCOVERY
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of character as the way in which we do our work; the
spirit, the quality, we put into it. A poor job shows
a poor ideal, a low ambition. A finely wrought piece
of work is an indication of a superior mentality.
Many young men and women, as well as older ones,
cease to grow or advance because they become satisfied
w’ith their record. There is no one so humble, nor so
high, but he can improve. The plodder who has an
ideal, who tries to do everything he undertakes better
than it has ever been done before,who is everlastingly
trying to improve, gets far ahead of the one who is
always waiting for a big opportunity, for a chance to
do what he considers something worth while.
It is simply amazing what a single year of this con
stant improvement policy will accomplish. It is just
a little more improvement here and a little better work
there that really accomplishes the things truly worth
doing.
If you make yourself thoroughly competent in any
useful line, no matter what your condition or circum
stances, no matter what your race or color, you will be
in demand. But excellence, superiority, costs some
thing. You must be on the job every minute, trying
constantly to improve.
Of course it is easier to slide along the line of least
resistance, to be superficial, sloppy, slovenly in your
work, than to pay the price of excellence in a daily
struggle for improvement. It rests entirely, young
men and young women, on you whether you will be
first or second or third class in your line. You can
all improve on yesterday’s work if you will. Only
your best on every occasion can elevate your lives and
give enduring satisfaction.
LIBRARY NOTES
finement and monotony of the school-room and won
dering whether so much education is worth so much
time and trouble. It will pay you to read it.
The Charm of Fine Manners” by Helen Ekin
Starrett. In writing this book Mrs. Starrett has
drawn from her many years of experience with young
girls at her school and elsewhere and has presented
her various subjects in a manner truly delightful and
which appeals to every right-minded girl. It covers
everything that ordinarily is such a vexation in a
young girl’s development: Behavior and manners,
self-culture, aims in life, personal habits, society and
conversation, associates and friends, etiquette for
school girls, and that finest feminine art, the making
of a home. It is lively reading. Girls enjoy every
page of it.
DOMESTIC ART NOTES
The sewing classes have been small the last ten
weeks.
The 20-pound hot point iron recently installed is
very useful and we wish to thank Mr. Hall.
The 7th and 8th grade girls in the sewing room
are very busy finishing up their exhibit work.
Mrs. Canfield, our Domestic Art teacher, was in
Portland for the week-end shopping and visiting.
We, the Freshman and Sophomore girls, regret leav
ing the Domestic Art Department as this is our last
detail here till next year.
One hundred and fifteen plaited serge skirts are be
ing made for McBride girls by the vocational classes.
We hope to have them finished for commencement.
The 7th and 8th grade girls have completed the re
quired number of lingerie articles in the course of
study and each have made either a gingham dress or
a bungalow apron.
Antoinette LaCounte, Mamie Thomas and Anna
Fagerstrom were in charge of the sewing classes dur
ing Mrs. Canfield’s absence at Portland, Friday and
Saturday of last week.
Pi evocational Sewing Room
We have just completed 126 gingham dresses and
bloomers for Co. E.
Mrs. Kirk’s girls are working hard to complete
their demonstration exhibits.
Josephine Weaver has made about two dozen rugs
on the loom. She has been faithful and we will miss
her when the detail changes.
Book circulation for March; girls, 323; boys, 400.
New Books
“ Boy Life of Theodore Roosevelt” by Hermann
Hagedorn. This is not only the story of an ambitious
boy who made good—a story filled with inspiration
for all boys who read it—but a fifty-year chapter of
United States history made personal and interesting
GENERAL ITEMS
by Col. Roosevelt’s connection with it. Its pages are
The vocational carpenters are preparing exhibits
teeming with narratives.
for commencement.
“ Your Biggest Job—School or Business” by Henry
Hauling cord wood has occupied the truck crew
Louis Smith. Here is a finely practical and inspira during the past few days.
tional little volume that expresses in humanly appealing
The painting of the new oven of the school bakery
language the fact that education is the basis for success is one of the latest of Chemawa’s many “ new wrin
toward which our youth should strive. The book kles” to be reported.
Spring plowing and planting is the order of the day
contains thirteen chapters, each a vivid, concrete,
Chemawa. Vegetable and flower gardens are com
straightforward talk to boys, who, allured and temp at
ing in for a vast amount of attention now. The birds
ted by many diversions, the getting tired of the con- are singing and all is lovely.