Fireside Correspondence School
By W. E. Howell
The most favorable season for vigorous mental work is winter. The evenings are long, the nerves are in tone, the faculties are wide-awake. Those students did wisely who enrolled at our autumn opening, October 3; but the good part of it is that it is not yet too late to enroll; for winter is just fairly beginning, and our book of registry is — We are still enrolling students. Our new students are starting out very encouragingly. Some are making more than the standard requirement of one lesson a week. A few will soon have one fourth of their course done, and will doubtless be half through before some others get started. It is only fair to say, too, that some who are in the lead are among the very busiest of our students. There are many young people and laborers over the country, who “haven’t the time” to take a study by correspondence; but if we wait for more time, the probabilities are that it will never come, and we shall lose many of the sweets of life because we never could find time to partake of them. Is there a better season of the year to break away from the habit of making a scapegoat of time? If we do not make the decision now, we may have to content ourselves next summer with the lament, “The winter is past, the opportunity is gone, and I am a year behind where I might have been if my good intentions had not been thwarted.” Ask for our latest calendar; it may be a help to you. Address us at Takoma Park, D. C. W. E. HOWELL,
Principal.