ices they are led to express their best selves. It is
important that they should learn to approach strangers with polite
confidence and courage when offering assistance.

I gave my seat once to a woman in a street car and at first I felt a
little resentful because not by look or word did she express gratitude.
As I glanced at the woman, however, I saw that she really desired to
thank me but was embarrassed. She did not know how to do so. How few are
taught the languages!

If the Boy Scouts and the Campfire Girls do nothing else than to learn
to express their willingness to serve they have made a wonderful gain
for active, useful and successful lives.

Of course, the primary aim is the good deed, but are not the kind tone,
word and polite bow fully as necessary? Are they not the entering wedge
and do they not appeal to the higher nature in the same way that the
thought of being of service inspires the boy or girl?

While doing is the great thing, yet it is necessary to say in union with
doing. There is really no antagonism between expression in kind looks,
tones or words, and acts. They are inseparably connected.

These same principles apply also to the Campfire Girls. They must not
only be trained to do things but trained to realize their own
personalities and to draw out the best in others. Then the actions will
begin to be more expressive of the real personality of the boy or the
girl and the seeing, doing and becoming will form an organic unity.
Someone has said that the great law of education is, first, to know;
second, to do; third, to become. The doing implies not only action, but
expression. Certainly we do not become what we know till we do or
express through word, tone and action.

The most successful men in the world have certain principles to guide
their every-day life. If we could only smile instead of frown, when
people criticize or condemn us, how much more successful would be our
lives!

Every day we can discover something interesting in our fellow-men.

We can learn to listen.

We should work when we work and play when we play. We should not play in
a half-hearted way worrying about our work; and when we work we should
do so with all our might.

We ought to have regular periods of rest; we ought to avoid unpleasant
topics in conversation. Everyone should have a vocation as well as an
avocation.

May we not summarize all these suggestions into a few statements which
will enable us to co-ordi