BOSTON
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I—THE TEEN PERIOD
- CHAPTER II—THE PHYSICAL SIDE
- CHAPTER III—THE MENTAL SIDE
- CHAPTER IV—THE SPIRITUAL SIDE
- CHAPTER V—THE SOCIAL SIDE
- CHAPTER VI—HER RELATION TO THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL
- CHAPTER VII—HER RELATION TO THE CHURCH
- CHAPTER VIII—HER RELATION TO THE BIBLE
- CHAPTER IX—HER RELATION TO THE EVERYDAY
- CHAPTER X—HER TEACHER
CHAPTER I—THE TEEN PERIOD
She was a beautiful, well-developed girl of thirteen. Her bright, eager face, with its changing expression, was a fascination at all times. It seemed unusually earnest and serious that particular morning as she stood waiting the opportunity to speak to me. She had asked to wait until the others had gone, and her manner as she hesitated even then to speak made me ask, “Are you in trouble, Edith?”
“No, not exactly trouble,—I don’t know whether we ought to ask you, but all of us girls think,—well, we wish we could have a mirror in the locker-room. Couldn’t we? It’s dreadful to go into school without knowing how your hair looks or anything!”
I couldn’t help laughing. Her manner was so tragic that the mirror seemed the most important thing in the educational system just then. I said I would see what could be done about it, and felt sure that what “all the girls” wanted could be supplied. She thanked me heartily, and when she entered her own room nodded her head in answer to inquiring glances from the other girls.