then depend not so much upon the number of articles you may 

 contribute to the various departments, for the sake of the 

 prominence jou niay get, but upon the real interest you feel in 

 the life an 1 growth of the Society and the unselfish ways you 

 take of showing that interest. 



Don't grow up in the spirit of people who make remarks like 

 these : "I've done all I ever shall do for that Society. I carried 

 something two or three years, and didn't get anything, or not 

 half as much as other people whose work was no better than 

 mine." Such persons do not care much for the success of the 

 Society beyond the advantage its success will be to them. 



You, of the Children's Department, will at no very distant 

 day be serving as committees in the various departments of the 

 Fair, and you will find the duty not any easy one, but often 

 tiresome and perplexing, with not even the thought that when 

 your work is done it will please and give satisfaction. 



AVhile you work for yourself, work for the Society as well, 

 and "do your best, your very best," even if 30U do not always 

 get what you expect, and what you think you deserve. You 

 will always find the greatest pleasure and satisfaction in work- 

 ing not for j^ourself alone, but for the good of something or 

 somebody besides yourself. 



S. B. STEVENS. 



