THE FIRST DAYS IN THE NEW SCHOOL
THE first week of school life is apt to be quite discouraging, and we
can not too emphatically warn the young girl not to do anything rash
under the influence of home-sickness.
It is in this initial period that many girls, feeling utterly alone and
friendless, write those letters to boys back home which are later so
difficult to pass off with a laugh. It is during this first attack of
homesickness also that many girls, in their loneliness, recklessly
accept the friendship of other strange girls, only to find out later
that their new acquaintance's mother was a Miss Gundlefinger of Council
Bluffs, or that she lives on the south side of Chicago. We advise: Go
slow at first.
