alter Scott.

He who cannot smile ought not to keep a shop.--Chinese Proverb.

Common sense bows to the inevitable and makes use of it.--Wendell
Phillips.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope
your guardian genius.--Addison.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures.--Bovee.

It is generally the idle who complain they cannot find time to do that
which they fancy they wish.--Lubbock.

What ardently we wish we soon believe.--Young.

Nature never stands still, nor souls neither; they ever go up or go
down.--Julia C. R. Dorr.

Thought alone is eternal.--Owen Meredith.

Only those live who do good.--Tolstoi.

The greatest truths are the simplest.--Hare.

Many people owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous
difficulties.--Spurgeon.

Thought by thought piled, till some great truth is loosened.
--Shelley.

The child's reasoning powers are, as it were, the wings with which he
will eventually have to fly.--Landon.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be.
Custom will render it easy and agreeable.--Pythagoras.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
--Richter.

Memory is the treasure-house of the mind.--Fuller.

Habit is an internal principle which leads us to do easily, naturally,
and with growing certainty, what we do often.--Webster.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone
in your heart--this you will build your life by, this you will
become.--James Allen.

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By MARGARET E. SANGSTER

HAPPY SCHOOL DAYS

A Book for Girls

In this book, Mrs. Sangster, the popular friend of all girls, writes
to them charmingly and sympathetically of the things nearest to their
hearts. The book will delight every girl.

It ought to reach the hands of every girl.--St. Paul Pioneer Press.

The book is as fascinating as a story.--Des Moines Register and Leader.

Every girl's mother ought to make her a present of this book.
--St. Louis Times.

Youthful and adult readers alike will enjoy and commend this book.
--Chicago Record-Herald.

Chatty and with many a merry anecdote the book is as beguiling as a
romance.--San Francisco Chronicle.

A charming book pervaded with the spirit of sweet friendliness,
complete comprehension and joyous helpfu