environment.
The duty of each teacher to consult daily a card catalogue
of duties, beginning with Apperception and
Adenoids and going on to Vaccination, Ventilation,
and the various vivacious variations on the
three R's.
The obligation resting upon the well-to-do citizen not
to leave for his country place, but to remain in the
city in order to give the force of his example, in
his own ward, to a safe and sane Fourth of July.
The obligation resting upon every citizen to write to
his Congressman.
The obligation to speak to one's neighbor who may
think he is living a moral life, and who yet
has never written to his Congressman.
The obligation to attend hearings at the State House.
The obligation to protest against the habit of employees
at the State House of professing ignorance
of the location of the committee-room where
the hearings are to be held; also to protest against
the habit of postponing the hearings after one has
at great personal inconvenience come to the State
House in order to protest.
The duty of doing your Christmas shopping early
enough in July to allow the shop-girls to enjoy
their summer vacation.
The duty of knowing what you are talking about, and
of talking about all the things you ought to know
about.
The obligation of feeling that it is a joy and a privilege