Connecticut Froebel Normal School - Yearbook (Bridgeport, CT)

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Connecfiicut Froebcl Normal 17 2 tn A issgiugu A' fd , E. . r ' 'ls' 1.. 7 f I Isl' F! THE PIG ON HOUSE N N every child, the yearning for knowledge of the life of nature awakens Aj early, and you, Mother, should cherish this longing and give him that for which he craves-an intimacy with nature. Teach him those things that belong to his age and give him to understand the soul of life and nature. He wants to find the plain and abiding truth, to discover the profound unity lying deeply beneath the personal or partieularg to recognize the pure truths that are behind the fleeting and unstable passing details, and you, Mother dear, should be the means through which he learns these true things of life and nature so that he will grow up in a pure and holy state of mind, venerating and respecting the life that God has given us and the forms and usages in and to which that life is put. ' In giving him the lessons of life at the right time, Mother, you foster the strong, clear inclinations of soul and upraise the spiritual sense of God's deep unwavering fitness and the straight continuity of all things through life and death. These things must be given him in the right way though, dear, and at the right timeg for if they are given in a wrong manner, the mind does not take hold and carry them uprightly and true and untarnishedg and if they are given either too early or too late, the child is not ready to fully comprehend and therefore t.hese truths given him are but weak, deformed thoughts, or he has already formed his own ideas, and yours, given him, will become coarsened in their reception, lacking the free expausiveness of the purely spiritual type.

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Your Book Now Elsie Clark had talent in art, But about her folk-dancing, there is little to say. Although Miss Coggswell did all on her part To impress upon Elsie, -how gracefully she danced in her younger days Ruth Drew, was out for fun, Even tho her lessons, she had not done. lVe are told she charmed the masculine sex, Now we wonder, who'll be her next? Lillian Drew, in manner was charming, :Xltho her interest in school was never alarming. She, like her sister, a good time did enjoy, Especially, if in the party, there were some darling boys. Kathleen Ryan was a maiden mild, About the quietest in our class. On all her studies she spent much toil, But i11 music was not surpassed. Ruth Young is the last to be mentioned, Last, but not least we can say, For she bothered no one and did her work, ln her own individual way. XVhatever our destiny in life may be, May we with pleasant memories recall, Our days spent at C. F. N. to he The happiest days of all. -Elizabeth M. Couighliin.

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18 Year Book There are stages in the life of your child that need especially careful super- vision and watching on your part, and knowledge on the part of your child. Know, Mother dear, that these stages are all intertwined and connecting and each bears upon the other so that the continuity of life and nature is never broken nor disturbed. The earthly destiny of man is to make his own life a, whole, and to understand the wholeness of all life. This explains the unity of the life God has given to the world and the sense of duty for all to retain. Have you noticed, Mother, the careful and select placing of all things out of doors? Everything that God has placed is in perfect order, everything where it should be and nothing to mar it, unless thru some misdeed of man's. So too, must our homes be-in perfect orderg and we should go thru life striving with all that is in us, to make ours and those with whom we come in contact, a more perfect, pure, untainted life of peaceful happiness with God and man,- to fill our place in this great world,--to find that place where G-od meant us to be, and to do our best in fulfilling the duties and work which he has destined for us. -Flavimzi E. B1'en.mm-, '22. TRUE REST Rest is not quitting The busy careerg Rest is the Iitting Of self to one's sphere. 'Tis the hrook's motion, Clear without strife, Flitting to ocean, After this life. 'Tis loving and serving The highest and best: 'Tis onward, uuswerving, And this is true rest. -Goethe.