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persons who think of others first and of tliemselves last. Here are 

 some questions for you to think alxuit, some things that you should 

 ask yourself once in a while until you can be satisfied with the answers 

 you make. 



Have you today given up something you wanted to do very much that 

 you might do something you knew you ought to do? 



Have you done some one thing to help Mother? Some one thing to 

 help Father? Things they did not ask you to do nor expect you to do? 



At night did you take the very warmest place by the fireside? Did 

 you take the most comfortable chair? Did you take the best red apple? 

 Or did you see that these desirable things were left for some one else? 



What did you do in school to make the day easier for your teacher? 



Did you lend to one of your school mates the book that you are for- 

 tunate enough to own and that he can not buy? Did you ask some 

 timid scholar in the school to play with you although you felt the game 

 would be more interesting without him ? Have you helped others to get 

 their school work althougli you wanted to be the only one in the class 

 A\ho was clever enough to give a good recitation? Did you try to control 

 laughter when you knew it was going to hurt some one else? 



A boy or girl can be a real hve youngster full of fun and mischief, 

 full of vigor, full of wit, but none of these things count for manliness 

 and womanliness if they make us thoughtless and selfish towards others. 

 This is the truth. Every boy and every girl who cares to be strong and 

 great and worthy of love should consider well the attitude to parents, 

 to teachers, to boys and girls about them. Those who take their fun at 

 the expense of others develop qualities that will defeat them in every 

 walk of life. You can not hurt others without hurting yourself. 



NOTES 

 In asking for books for Christmas I wish you would mention two that 

 meant very much to me when I w as a little girl long years ago : one, 

 the Bimhi Stories by Ouida, published by Ginn & Co. ; the other, Little 

 Classics Childhood, edited by Rossiter Johnson. There is still another 

 book that I wish you might own, entitled From Milton to Tennyson. In 

 this book you will find the story of Horatius at the Bridge. Every boy 

 and girl should know of Horatius and should learn some of the lines of 

 this poem. You will find some Latin words in the beginning of the 

 poem and may be a bit discouraged in reading it, but ask some older 

 person to read it first and listen way to the end. You will then want 

 to read it yourself again and again I am sure. 



