pitfalls and the dangers that lurk about them, and to lead them where a mother's care can bless them and her influence nourish them, fewer young men would be lost and the "boy problem” would not be half so serious. It is not as it should be when a young lady is more interested in some other girl's brother than she is in her own. The ideal young woman is considerate of her mother. Of course some girls are not. Some mothers, too, are silly about their daughters. But the right sort of a girl will not be spoiled, even by her mother. She will not be content to pound the piano all day and gad about all the evening while her mother wears herself out in the drudgery of the home. There is quite as much culture in washing dishes, and cooking a good meal, and tidying up the house as there is in running the fingers up and down the keyboard of a Steinway or torturing people with the wonderful variations of a high-pitched, squeaky voice, especially when in doing the former you can give a patient and long-suffering mother a chance to take a much-needed rest. The young woman who shows high consideration and She fits herself for a useful life ins continually posing for a marriage She is one who appreciates her pow influence. No one has more power than woman, if she will only use i proper way. This young woman wi tolerate a young man that is not h socially, mentally, and morally. S not marry a man to reform him. precarious business when any young turns herself into a reformatory and takes the hazardous task of reclai young man by the marriage proc she is unable to reform him befor riage, she can not do so afterwa do not know of any young men tha girls to reform them. And besi woman can associate with or marry beneath her and hope to lift him up level-she will descend to his. At a temperance meeting one e where were present a great many 95 and daughters, among the questions considered was the young man problem. "How to save the young men," was their cry. Very few young men were there. Their absence was freely commented upon and lamented. "Where are they, and why are they not here?" mothers and daughters queried. When the meeting was over, their questions were quickly answered. The young men were just outside the door, waiting for the meeting to break up, and they actually escorted these same young ladies, daughters of those same mothers, to their homes. The dove, with its cooing, will not dull the vulture's talons nor change its nature. The bird, with its singing, will not stop the serpent's sting, nor kill the poison. The rose, with its fragrance, will not quench the furnace fire nor heal its burn. Above all, the ideal young woman is godly, and is not ashamed of it. She will not allow the holy fires that burn in her soul to be quenched. She will not sacrifice her faith nor surrender her religion for any reason whatsoever. A modest, wellbehaved, sweet-tempered, devoted, highminded, Christian young woman is the THE IDEAL YOUNG WOMAN queen of all queens and can reign supreme in a world where hearts are the most valuable asset, and where men will pay a homage that is divine. She thinks more of cultivating a fine disposition than she does of cultivating her voice. Her life is pure; its atmosphere is wholesome; it is laden with the rich aroma of an unselfish soul. She is on her way to a kingdom and a throne. Indeed, she is there already. When she falls from that high estate it shocks us. That is where she belongs, and we are contented only when she is there. Nothing less seems right. harmony with her own tune with the Infinite. That is ideal. She is then in nature, and in That is natural. Fairer than the fairest flowers that bloom, Life as stainless as the stars above, Soul that stretches upward-soul of love; |