'AND once again life opens wide the door
Through which shall pass ambition, youth and hope,
Into that harsher world, but little tried,
Where eager faith its tasks would meet and cope,
The tasks that stagger oft when youth seems far
From that fond hope that fastened to the star.
How fine a thing it is-this hope of youth,
Which bears the faithful heart that gives it room
Above all trivial things of time and place
On pinions to a sure success—not doom;
That sees no failures in the coming years
Whose eager feet press on-they know no fears.
The June time brings these fruitful days of life,
Repeating for each one the promise o'er,
Of rich fulfillment-harvests in the years,
The fields of time, in which our visions soar;
With roses to bloom and thorns but few,
May every worthy dream of youth come true.
And may no idle dreams usurp the mind,
No selfish visions stretch adown the years,
No loitering by waysides, seeming joy
To end in grief and penitential tears;
But on life's journey all along the way
Look Heavenward and for its guidance pray.
Sing: "Vacation Time," from New Common-School Song Book.
Birthdays: Peter Paul Rubens, a famous Flemish painter, born at Siegen, Germany, June 29, 1577; died at Antwerp, Belgium, May 30, 1640.
John Quincy Adams Ward, an American sculptor, born in Urbana, Ohio, June 29, 1830; died in New York City, May 1, 1910.
Celia Thaxter, an American writer, born in Portsmouth, N. H., June 29, 1836; died August 27, 1894.
John Bach MacMaster, an American historian, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 29, 1852.
30 VACATION
"Vacation is the time for fun!"
All girls and boys are saying
When schools and books grow wearisome,
And hearts are ripe for playing.
VACATION-TIME
ALL the world is set to rhyme
Now it is vacation-time,
And a swelling flood of joy
Brims the heart of every boy.
No more rote and no more rule,
No more staying after school
When the dreamy brain forgets
Tiresome tasks the master sets;
Nothing but to play and play
Through an endless holiday.
Morn or afternoon, may all
Swing the bat and catch the ball;
Nimble-footed, race and run
Through the meadows in the sun,
Chasing winged scraps of light,
Butterflies in darting flight;
Or where willows lean and look
Down at others in the brook,
Frolic loud the stream within,
Every arm a splashing fin.
Where the thorny thickets bar,
There the sweetest berries are;
Where the shady banks make dim
Pebbly pools, shy trout swim;
Where the boughs are mossiest,
Builds the humming-bird a nest;-
There are haunts the rover seeks,
Touch of tan upon his cheeks,
And within his heart the joy
Known to no one but a boy.
All the world is set to rhyme
Now it is vacation-time.
-From "Book of Rhyme"
Sing: "Vacation's Coming" and "Vacation Song," from School Song Knapsack.
A cheerful temper, 165
A glad New Year, 104
A great nation is made, 17
A gush of bird song, 180
A man of words, 143
A sense of an earnest will, 227
A soft answer, 176
A thing is worth, 131
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Arbor Day in Arkansas, 91
Arbor Day in California 157
Arbor Day in Connecticut, 193
Arbor Day in Florida, 106
Arbor Day in Georgia,81
Arbor Day in Illinois, 186
Arbor Day in Indiana, 55
Arbor Day in Kentucky, 176
Arbor Day in Louisiana, 132
Arbor Day in Maine, 197
Arbor Day in Maryland, 176
Arbor Day in Massachusetts, 193
Arbor Day in Michigan, 193
Arbor Day in Minnesota, 193
Arbor Day in Mississippi, 88
Arbor Day in Missouri, 176
Arbor Day in Montana, 201
Arbor Day in Nebraska, 189
Arbor Day in New Jersey, 189
Arbor Day in New Mexico, 161
Arbor Day in New York, 197
Arbor Day in North Dakota, 197
Arbor Day in Ohio, 183
Arbor Day in Oklahoma, 158
Arbor Day in Rhode Island, 205
Arbor Day in South Carolina, 75
Arbor Day in Texas, 147
Arbor Day in Utah, 183
Arbor Day in Vermont, 193
Arbor Day in West Virginia, 75
Ariosto, Ludovico, 15
Armond, Lizzie D., 167
Arnold, Benedict, 104, 105
Arnold, Matthew, 96
Arthur, Chester A., 34
Association, 220
Audubon, John James, 197, 198
Auld Lang Syne 33, 120
Austin, Alfred, 216
Away with Meloncholy, 49
Ax Grinding, Franklin, 179
Bacon, Francis, 118, 119, 157
Bad Company, 128
Bailey, P. J., 208
Balzac, Honore de, 207
Bancroft, George, 32, 33
Bangs, John Kendrick, 214
Barbara Frietchie, Whittier, 107, 224
Barefoot Boy, The, Whittier, 107
Barrie, James Matthew, 202
Bartholdi, Frederio A., 175
Barton, Clara, 52, 97, 206
Barye, Antoine Louis, 25
Battle Hymn of the Republic, 216
Battle of Bunker Hill, 228
Battle of New Orleans, 108
Battle Prayer, The, 190
Be a Man! 199
Be Careful What You Sow, 17
Be just and fear not, 71
Be kind and gentle, 122
Be noble! and the nobleness, 113
Be still, sad heart! 90
Beauregard, Pierre G. T., 166
Beautiful faces are those, 49
Beautiful Things, 49
Bob White, 188
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 44, 199
Bonar, Horatius, 51, 211
Bonheur, Rosa, 165
Book, The, Forman, 126
Books, 154, 228
Books are men, 154
Books are yours, 178
Boone, Daniel, 134
Booth, Edwin Thomas, 68
Booth, John Wilkes, 69
Boughton, George H., 117
Boy Who Became Famous, A, 121
Boy Who Recommended Himself,
Boy Who Said "I Must," Marden,
22
Boy Who Wanted to Learn, The, 185
Boyhood of John Greenleaf Whit-
Boyhood of Washington, The, 146
Boys flying kites, 48
Bradford, William, 202
Bradstreet, Anne, 20
Brahms, Johannes, 200
Breton, Jules A., 196
Brewster, Sir David, 89
Brine, Mary D., 237
Brooks, Elbridge S., 183
Brooks, Phillips, 89, 90
Brown, Abbie Farwell, 154
Brown, Isabel Yeomans, 125
Brown, John, 202, 205
Browne, Charles F., 190
Brownies, The, 58
Browning, Elizabeth
156
Browning, Robert, 199
Bryan, William J., 162
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