Adrian High School - Sickle Yearbook (Adrian, MI)

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or unselfish usually have enough for much foolishness? A person who never has time for work but always is willing to play when someone invites him will never be successful. A well known man who has been very successful in his line of work was once asked how he had accomplished so much in his life. His reply was, When I was a boy my father taught me when I had any work to do, to go and do it. He had followed his father's advice. Would it not be very good advice for us to follow? We might not feel quite ready to do tl1e work but are we inclined to be any more nearly ready later? Usually not. Instead, we have had all the worry about doing it and a harder task at last, and then we have still stronger fettered ou ourselves the chains of inactivity and failure. If a man would be successful, if he would be a credit to himself and a help to others, let him earnestly carry out this motto, DO IT NOW. M. P. R DID YOU ever think how many types of girls there are in our high school? There is the steady girl, the copyist, those with aches and pains, and the clique girl. There are sweet girls, kind and OU' High helpful girls, appreciative girls, the injured girl, tl1e School Gifls- disagreeable girl, she who is independent, and the all- around girl. You may always depend on the steady girl. She is sure to have her lessons no matter if she did have a little headache the night before. She hands her work in on time, no asking for more time will you hear from her, unless it is very necessary. She is to be counted on. How we dislike the girl who copies all the time! VVe feel as though we should like to get out of the way as soon as we see her coming. The first thing we hear from her is, Have you the forty-fifth problem? or, Let me see how you wrote those German sentences. And more than likely it was the hardest problem in the day's lesson, on which we had spent an hour, or it may have been the very sentence on which we had racked our brains in order to get the right construction. If the copyist could only realize that she is hurting her own abilities and weakening her mental powers, besides being a bore, we might live in peace. Very closely related to the disagreeable copyist is the girl with the aches and pains. She always feels bad, has the headache, toothache, the toe- ache or some other kind of ache until she is brimming full and running over with aches and pains. Her excuse for not having her lesson is, Well, I had a headache last night. And she expects every one to sympathize with her and coddle and pet her until she feels a little better. She enjoys poor health.

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Yon're lucky! I was copying my book-review. Business before pleasure, you know. Well, I intended to copy mine last night, but I had company and conldn't. The foregoing conversation between two high school pupils is only one example of the too common habit of leaving everything which has to be done until the last minute. In fact, the habit has become so common that we hardly notice it. It is too true that, as Addison said, We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. In most cases this pernicious habit begins to show itself very early in a child's life. When his parents give him some work to do, he often replies, In a minute. But the minute! A man once told this story of his childhood. He had often heard the expression, In a minute, and had noticed also that a long time usually followed before the thing was done. So he gained the impression that a minute was longer than an hour. After he started to school it was very difficult for l1is teacher to make him believe that there were sixty minutes in an hour. In school this same habit is seen. An essay, some kind of written work, or even the daily lesson is put off with the thought, Time enough later. So he leaves this lesson and that duty until he has such a mountain of work that he can neither see over it nor tunnel through it. The natural conse- quence is, that when a busy time comes, he says with a discouraged air, Such lessons as those teachers do give us!', And why is it? Certainly not because the work is too hard, but rather because he has neglected his work at the time when it could have been done easily and carefully. Ijater in life the same habit is in evidence, and, as a result, poor work- ers in any kind of business are made -housekeepers who leave their work until, when they see it has to be done, they do all in one day and then com- plain because they have to work so hard, merchants who never order new stock until the demand has gone by. After observing people in these three phases of life, one will readily perceive that the first is the cause of the second, the second of the third. The reason for this is, I think, that the habit formed in the home is carried into the school life and afterward into the life-work-that a child who puts otf work at home will put off the more important duties later in life. What is the result of such a life? Can a person who has developed the habit Of procrastination be happy when he never has any work finished when it should be? It seems as if he must always be thinking about what he ought to do and yet be dreading the time when it must be done. His excuse is, haven't time. Perhaps he hasn't at the last moment, but did you ever notice that the people who never have time to do anything useful

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Our high school isn't troubled much with the clique girls, still there are those who feel it beneath their station and dignity to condescend to speak, talk With, or even do such a thing as to walk down the street with one whom they consider beneath them in social standing or in any other respect. But as a rule these girls are not liked by the majority, neither are they of much importance to the school. The independent girl isn't the one that gets along the best as a rule. She should not feel it incumbent to talk back to a teacher who is keep- ing the order of the class, nor should she feel it necessary to state her opin- ion on every subject that comes up. The teacher can get along very well without her and the pupils will not mourn her loss. All the teachers are down on me, says the injured girlg They seem to pick on me for every thing I say or do. I just study awfully hard, but what good does it do, they're always finding fault. They are always calling me downg I can't turn around but that they're watching me, and I think it's too mean for anything. The boys and girls slight me. No one likes me. Poor girl ! You do have a hard time! Did it ever occur to you to ask yourself if you are likeable? Aren't you rather conceited to think that people are spending all their time and thought to be disagreeable to you? The popular girls are not the sensitive plants. The all-round girl has only our praises. She is sweet, helpful, appre- ciative, kind, very intelligent all in one. It does us all good to have her around. She makes us feel bright and cheerful, She is the same sweet girl at all times. She isn't provoked at every little unavoidable thing, but takes it as a matter of course that such things will happen. She may not be the most brilliant girl in her class, but her lessons are prepared and she does good work. She has some time to be social. You will find her ready and capable in many lines. There are, perhaps, other types of high school girls, but the ones we have mentioned are most noticeable. However, we are glad to say that for the most part our high school girls are good and praiseworthy, so we can say, Long live old Adrian High School! Long live the Adrian High School Girls! G. G. R As WE slowly make our progress through the grades some of us may have the intention of making tl1e eighth grade the end of our school career, but we suddenly change our minds when we see that F-Thom most of our classmates are going to enter the high High School school. In the high school, more especially in the to College. first and second years, we still retain something of the idea that we had in the grades, and feel confident that the senior year will be the last one in our school life.