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LETTERS FROM ASPIRING GIRLS
This is a group of some of the brightest girls in
Georgia or the South. The editor has decided to
let this picture appear as a glimpse into the oppor
tunity that other girls are longing for.
Almost every girl whose face appears in this
group, one time wrote a letter like some of these
appearing this week. Through the generosity of
people who love to do good with their money they
were enabled to enter college where, putting on
pretty uniforms, they took their places by the side
of many girls of wealthy parents and in personal
bearing and class standing they have been queens
among the best. Some of these girls have graduat
ed and are now teaching—some helping their young
er brothers and sisters to go to school, and all are
trying to show their practical gratitude for help
rendered, by opening the way for other girls like
themselves.
Some of this group are right in the midst of their
college course, working during the summer to pay
part of their expenses, and many others as bright
and worthy as these, are longing to be numbered
with them. These letters are given with the hope
that among the readers of The Golden Age many
who believe in practical philanthropy will write to
learn more of these brave girls with a view to in
vesting in them.
Money thus invested will be returned to the col
lege by the beneficiaries after they finish school, so
that it becomes a perpetual and ever widening in
fluence for good.
This paper is helping many students at different
institutions over the South, by offering scholarships
for vacation work on exceptionally liberal terms;
but the editor does this special work at Monroe
College, Forsyth, Georgia, because of his former
connection with the institution for several years,
and tlie work thus begun can be more easily carried
on. This special work is undenominational in its
application—girls of all denominations or no de
nominations being assisted according to financial
limitations and the proof of worthiness and capacity
for usefulness.
A FARMER’S DAUGHTER.
Dear Mr. Upshaw:—l am a farmer’s daughter,
seventeen years of age, and am very anxious for an
education—though my father is not able to educate
me.
I have satisfactorily completed the common school
course of Morgan county and have received my di
ploma as proof of this.
I understand you have several plans for girls
earning scholarships in Monroe Female College,
thereby educating themselves.
Will you please submit these plans to me, and
advise me in this matter?
TEACHING A SUMMER SCHOOL.
Mr. AV. I). Upshaw:—Dear Brother Willie: I am
a little Monroe girl and I come asking a favor of
you. lam very anxious to go back to Monroe col
lege this fall, and knowing that you helped many
girls, who are not able to pay their own expenses,
1 come asking you to let me become one of the
number.
I attended school at Monroe last term but have
not the means to go back next year. I am teach
ing a little summer school now and I thought per
haps I could make enough to buy my books and in
cidentals. The term lasts two months and you know
I could make very little in that short time and with
a small salary too.
If you will be so kind as to take me on the ‘Goan
fund,” 1 assure you that it will be greatly appre
ciated and I will do all in my power to pay it all
back. I want to fit myself for an able teacher and
I know that Monroe college is the place to prepare
myself. I felt very much discouraged but I will
keep trying.
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THE ASHES OF HOPE.
Dear Mr. Upshaw:—No doubt you will be sur
prised to get a letter from me asking you for help.
I hesitated for some time before doing so, for I
know you are very busy and have so many girls de
pending on you for help, but I have tried every
other source I know and have failed so far and know
ing you have made so many other hearts glad by
making it possible for them to attend Monroe Col
lege, I thought you might have room in your heart
for just one more. I had the good fortune to at
tend Monroe last term and am very anxious to re
turn another year, but it seems impossible, since
our great misfortune of a few months ago. My
father’s kouse and everything we had, together
with my sister’s school library, was destroyed by
fire, hence it falls to my lot to give up my work at
Monroe, unless you can give me a little help. lam
perfectly willing to repay the money just as soon as
I can make it. If you can help me and wish to
know anything about my record at Monroe, please
write President Jackson. Will you please let me
hear from you at once as I am anxiously awaiting
your reply.
WILLING TO WORK.
Dear Mr. Upshaw:—Here is another girl that
wishes to become 4 ‘one of your girls.” tam a sis
ter of , whom you helped last year.
I would like to be special in music. I have taken
three years and dearly love it, and have always had
a very strong desire to finish in music, but my hopes
had almost vanished until I thought of asking you
to help me. Now, Mr. Upshaw, I am willing to do
anything in college to help me pay my way. I’m
perfectly willing to do anything that is convenient
for me to do. My highest ambition has always been
to finish in music, and I certainly would be the
proudest of all girls and most grateful to you if T
could attain this. If you wish any recommenda
tions you can apply to the same persons as you did
for my sister. She is very busy writing for sub
scribers, and has been busy all the week. She says
that she is determined to get them. When she gets
hers, I am going to try to get some.
GEOMETRY AND DREAMS.
My Dear Mr. Upshaw:—l have always heard that
we ought not to receive a blessing without showing
our gratitude.
Well, I am a grateful school girl, and let me tell
you how and why.
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A GROUP OF MONROE COLLEGE GIRLS.
A short time before our final examinations, yon
visited the High school at . Your address
to the students that morning I can never forget.
The motto of your life, “Let nothing discourage
you—never give up,’’ which you had the boys am!
girls repeat several times, kept ringing in my ears
and heart after you had gone, and I tell you frankly
and gladly that that motto helped me through my
Geometry examination. * * * I confess that I
have always had ambition—ambition to be some
thing and do something in the world, and your mes
sage that day, emphasized by the example of your
own achievements under difficulties, tempers and
quickens my purpose to climb the mountains before
me and prepare myself to be a more useful woman
than I might ever have been if I had not heard you.
Again I thank you for that visit to our school.
Second Letter.
My Dear Mr. Upshaw:—Wonder if you would
care if I should address you as “Dear Earnest Wil
lie”? You know the boys and girls think of you
in that way. I can never, never tell you what your
inspiring letter meant to me. it opens a door which
I had thought was forever closed and puts a star
in the sky of my girlhood dreams.
The thought of my getting to go off Io college and
complete my education seems just too good to he
tine, it almost overwhelms me with the “weight
of joy.”
And yet, do you know, good friend, that a little
cloud appears?
They need me at home so much. T am needed—
yes, I am needed to help make a living. My father
has worked hard to get me this far. Mother who
always keeps cheerful, is willing to make any sacri
fice. Our little home is humble but it is the sweet
est place on earth, and I am longing to know and do
my duty to all—parents, brothers and sisters who
make that luime such a blessed spot to me.
You will hear from me again, but even if I can
not go I thank you over and over again for the
cheering offer you have made and the new inspira
lion you have brought my heart and life.
Off To Northfield.
The Editor, with a company of friends, leaves
this week for Northfield, joining there Dr. Brough
ton and other friends who went last week. A story
of the trip will be given to the readers of The
Golden Age, helping them to glimpse, if no more,
just about the most beautiful and inspiring spot
this side of Heaven,
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