For School-girls

If I were a girl again, and could go to school, I would be very careful, at leas I tliink I would be careful, not to lose anytime. Yours is work and it is ver}1 important that this sbouli be, beoause the habits of care aud dili genceyou are fbrming in your class rooms willhelp youthrough your wbolt üves. It is really less wbat you study than the way you study it wbich is the main tbing to be considerad now. A girl at school cannot, of course always be provided with every appliancc for her work, hut, as a rule, she ought to have her own books, her own pads, pencils, inkearaser, crayons, drawingpaper, penknife, and whatever else she needs to in order to do ber work, so that she is under no necessity to borrow f rom her friends. What would you thinkof a carpenter who carne to your liouse without tools, and had to ask tho loan of some? or a doctor who forgot bis prescription-book or bis medicines, and :iad to lose time and paius until be could send around to an acquaintance and procure others, while his patiënt was waiting to be relieved? Have your ;ools, girls, and keep them in order, and, if you must sometimes lend, exact a speedy return, politely and gently, but innly. for we must sometimes insist on ur rigbts, and then justas firmly resolve ïot to borrow unless the circumstances are exceptional. Have your own tools. School-books should be laid aside as vou leave them for otber and more advanced books, neither given away nor arted with out of the family, thougli you may allow : vounger sister orbrother to use them, if you choose. By-andy you may be glad to have yourschooljooks to refer to, and you will find that they are as useful as much larger volumes, and easier to keep at hand; they lave been prepared by learned and thoughtful experts, and have the advantage of being carefully condensed. After your school-life is over you will very much enjoy the possession of a sbelf full of text-books, ouce your daily companions. - Harpers Round Table.