keeping pace with her, and dogging her footsteps in whatever direction she tries to go. After a certain fashion everyone is sensitive, for we are all proud, and filled with easily wounded self-love. But there is an over-sensitiveness that is almost a disease, and that we should fight against with every power we possess.

The over-sensitive girl is always looking for slights and snubs. She will not visit without special invitation, for fear her visit might be ill-timed. She finds great difficulty in talking before strangers, and never appears at her best outside the immediate home circle. This over-sensitiveness is often the effect of some bodily weakness, or even of some bodily defect. To become strong physically, and to be as pretty and well cared for as possible should help the sensitive girl to overcome her weakness of character, and it should be conquered as soon as possible, for it is a weakness that has poisoned many a young girl's life, following her even through her womanhood with its

insufferable, nagging presence. If you suffer from over-sensitiveness, make a brave effort to overcome it. If you do not succeed it will keep step with you even as it has done with so many others, standing like a silent enemy before some of the most delightful experiences of life, forbidding you to enter and enjoy. Over-sensitiveness is a cruel burden for a child to bear, but it can be conquered by time, patience, and the constant exertion of moral force and self-control. Add to these mental attributes the daily practice of unselfish and practical work for others, and you will surely succeed.

Now the importance of mental health is vital for this reason: all the experiences of life reach us through the mind. To keep the mind clear, bright, and open, is the only way to see the events of our daily existence in proper proportion, one to another, and to learn clearly and concisely the lessons. they were sent to teach. The attributes of unhealth that I have just mentioned discolor and poison this medium through which

we see life and come in touch with it. To enjoy the quality of perceptivity-to see clearly-the mind must be healthy.

Therefore, if instead of over-sensitiveness, morbidness, and suspicion, you place in your mind confidence, cheerfulness, and trust, you gather forces strong for happiness under your control, through which you will affect everyone with whom you come in touch.

You cannot live to yourself alone. Even the youngest child holds in her hands the happiness of others, and her personality will affect and contribute to their development. Therefore, to meet life with serenity, trust, confidence and joy is to bring to it your best gifts, and to fit yourself to be a valiant soul fighting always for truth and the best that is in you. This is health of mind. To keep free from contamination that sacred inner life, in which you are, with the help of the events of your daily life, preparing and fitting yourself to meet eternity

IV

CHARACTER-BUILDING

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There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind, but above mind and above body stands character."

-THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

"I at least have told you that the happiness of your life, and its power and its part and rank in earth or heaven depend on the way you pass your days now.”

-RUSKIN.