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theni , with all interest and kindness , » Remember nothing is or can beright which is diametrically opposed to the common sense view of the world ; even iu little things above all , in all things moral —that which which is antagonistic to the normal

dictates of prudence , propriety , selfrespect , and self elevation , is itself a snare and a pitfall for weak wills and wavering resolutions . All society , all customs , all ways of living , all habits of thought are bad which ever lead any one

to forget that modesty , and gentleness , and purity , and simplicity , and amiability , and true-heartedness are the most comely graces of a woman . And then there are those who are

fast in their opinions and speech ; outspoken in words , somewhat free perhaps . Well , the miasma of nationalism and Scepticism , if it has infected the young men , has not so far , thank God , at all really affected our women , and therefore we should make allowance as

, it seems to me , for honest utterance and independence of thought , and liberty of discussion , so long as that comeliest attribute of woman—her reliant .

trusting , reverential spirit remains unscathed and unalloyed . At any rate I , for one , prefer the free , bold views of Minnie and Gerty to the sanctimonious theories of that old impostor , Mrs . Dufferly , or the whining rhodomontades of Mrs . Duberly . If Minnie is a little boldand Gerty a

, little reckless after all not much harm is clone ; and I have always liked ( and always shall like ) the free outspoken sentiments of honesty and sincerity , even if a little "' exaltes" to the cold sycophancy of polished heartlessness , and the worldl y

indifference of dilapidated E picureanism . And then when I remember that , after all , these very girls so decried , so wellabused , so hastily condemned , are those ever prompt to help in every good work around us ; that they fill our churches ,

work in our schools , labour in our districts , and toil often in our sisterhoods , hospitals , and refuges , why should we do them the injustice , I ask , as to say , or even to suppose , that after all this outer display of Life ' s Vanity Fair is anything wore than ou the surface ? Like all epidemics it will have its way—inn its oom-se—and then disappear into the thin

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air ! So you see that I have come back to where I began , and that the result of my treatise is that our girls are not so bad by a long way as they seem to he , and often make themselves out to be . Indeed , I fancy that they are a good deal better actually often than those good old

females who are so fond of pulling them to pieces , and , as they say , making them keep their proper places . When the old generation—of which I am one—is in its grave others will arise , no doubt , to complain , " How fast our girls

are become ! " Nay , those very laughing girls we see to-day with their clipped rats ' tails , and patches of hiy on their heads , and peg-tops , & c , will talk in heartrending accents to well got-up old beaux and shaky male friends—How dreadfull y fast their

Lotties , and Violets , and Amys , and Nellies are becoming ! So runs the world away , my masters and my mistresses , and so it will always run until the end comes , when its painted show , and idle follies , and vain conceits have vanished never to return , when the " clay dawns and the shadows , flee away . "

A Word For Our Boys.

A WORD FOR OUR BOYS .

READING in the last issue of the MASONIC MAGAZINE " Our Young Women " it appeared to me "Calebs , " in writing up our young women , rather strongly wrote clown ( perhaps unintentionally ) our young men . Nowalthough I agree with nearl

, y all " Ctelebs" says in his extremely wellwritten article , I can scarcely hold with some of his ideas of our young men ; for , he seems to me , to dwell too much on the worst and too little on the best side of their characters . We can scarcely jud

ge of a young man leading an idle life , and who has never had occasion to call out his best energies , until the actual time comes for him to put them forth—I use the the words " young man" advisedly , as , doubtless , it is seldom a man or woman

lives many years before they have occasion for showing what metal they are formed of . We may instance numberless brilliant examples in officers of our own British army , showing the change which can be made in mens lives when they are required to come