The first week of school life is apt to be quite discouraging,
and we can not too emphatically warn the young girl not to do
anything rash under the influence of homesickness. It is in this
initial period that many girls, feeling utterly alone and
friendless, write those letters to boys back home which are later
so difficult to pass off with a laugh. It is during this first
attack of homesickness also that many girls, in their loneliness,
recklessly accept the friendship of other strange girls, only to
find out later that their new acquaintance’s mother was a Miss
Gundlefinger of Council Bluffs, or that she lives on the south
side of Chicago. We advise: Go slow at first.