her the prayers that she never forgets and helped her feel a
deep sympathy for all who suffer and have need. A fine young uncle who
has used his wealth to comfort the old and save the sick, told her many
a tale that stirred her soul, and her admiration for the young man of
millions who worked as hard every day as any man in his office but never
for himself, helped in forming her own ideals. And so she reads and
studies, dreams and plans the good she will do some day, meanwhile
helping in every way open to her and standing firmly for the things she
knows are right, resisting with granite-like determination the onslaught
of the waves of self-indulgence and the tides of wild extravagance and
display.
The girl of high ideals is everywhere. Every school can claim her.
Despite teasing, sneers and laughter, she remains true to her ideals.
She is not a book-worm but she studies, she is not prudish but she is
high minded and pure, she has fun but it is wholesome and clean and
kind.
She is found in every shop, every department store is aware of her
presence. Honest, attentive, true, interested in her work, following
amidst many insidious temptations her own high ideals.
Every college knows her. She resists the petty sins of college life. She
banishes jealousy and self-assertion. Snobbishness she will not
tolerate. She seeks no honors save those fairly won. Keen, alert, pure
and true, capable of sacrifice and hard tasks, sympathetic with all
need, a lover of true sport and real fun she represents the college girl
of high ideals.
Every factory has her among its operatives. A good worker doing honest
work, refusing to allow the stain of coarse jests to touch her, or the
temptations which come with low wages and great fatigue to enter her
life. Again and again she has revealed her ideals in moments of disaster
and death. It is hard to find words to express one's admiration for the
factory girl as she holds to her high ideals.
Many a kitchen knows her. Neat, clean, honest, capable, happy in her
work, resisting all the temptations that come through loneliness and
deadly routine, she clings to her ideals with courage.
Every set in society knows her; turning her back upon temptations to
excess, vanity, pride, scorning all forms of gossip, neither listening
to, nor repeating the words that "they" say, she keeps her mind and
heart fixed upon the undimmed ideals she has set for herself.
Many a schoolroom and office know her,
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