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1t was slain with jsvelin. Four robes COW
cred most savage-looking buffalo, which was
killed with an az. Five robes covered
in part, but not altogether, lordly
elephant, which, when the sword was
pointed against him, seized Minhman
by the reck and tossed him violently up
He mounted feet foremost, and finally chung
by his toes to the capital of one of the columns.
Tepada now leaped from the stage and alighted
upon the elephants shoulders. With q short
sword he goaded the beast on the head until,
shrieking, the unwieldy animal reared on his
hind feet, twtned its trunk about one Of the
great columns, and seemed trying to lift itself
from the ground and wrap its body around the
great pillar. The music clashed out barbar-
ously, Norodom flashed forth dazzling fire.
work Of some sort, the elephant disappeared,
tand Tepada lay upon the stage wrlthing in the
folds Of great Demonstration, and holding up
MinLman upon his feet. ..
WHATNOTHERS SHOULD TILL THEIR
| B.. -.. ....... GIRLS.
In Mrs. Brackets lately published volume on
"The Education Of American Girls, in the division
Of her subject upon the culture Of the body and
sexual education, the author says: Here have
to speak Of q branch Of the subject which Is not
often considered, Imean the duty of the mother,
who is in this department the proper educator, to
SPEAK earnestly, fully, and plainly to the girl Of
| the mysterious process Of reproduction. Let me
call attention to the infinite Importance in this
part Of education, Of perfect confidence and free
dom between mother and daughter, and to the
equally important fact that this confidence which
does exist a: the beginning Of l II once lost, can
never be fully restored. Ifthere Is q shade ofre-
serve on the part Of the girl It will manifest itself
just here and now. Instead Of seeking the infor-
nation which she really DESIRES at It's only proper
source at that source whence she would receive It
pure, and invested with q feeling Of reverence
and sanctity, OF which she could never divest her.
self, she seeks It elsewhere. She picks It up
piece-meal in surrepttious and clandestine ways,
| as If It were some horrible mystery which must,
from its very nature, be covered up from the
light OF day. She talks It over with her young
companions In secrecy, and the charm Of the mys-
terry keeps her thoughts unduly brooding upon the
subject.
In old times, and even now, IN some countries,
the danger was not is not, great. Foreign girls
have Q much closer supervision exercised over
them, and their life IN the nursery ia far less
nerTe-stimulating thai that Of American children.
They do not ask questions so early as the Ameri-
can girl, and when they d. they have at hand
uOI HehTly many SOURCES VI IL
this unnecessary love and confidence is unbroken,
and If the mother has been so educated herself,
that she recognizes the Importance of the moment,
and has the requisite knowledge there is no dan
ger at all. The occasion is seized, and her NO.
manly, "clear and dignfed statement destroys all
the false halo with which the youthful fancy Is
prone to surround the process OF reproduction, |
and at this time the fancy is very active with rela
tion to whatever pertains to it." do not for one
Ahak r aA,.1
education. The physical consequences Of mis- |
takes on this point are decided. BY the continual
dwelling of the imagination on this SUBJECTED /
the ina Einatton, say, for there be thought
where there is no clearness-the blood is diverted
to those organs, and hence 1.-THE brain and spinal
cord, which develop rapidly at this period, are |
not led to proper strength.
The easily nodded material is perverted to the |
newly aroused reproductive organs, and the pre- |
ternatural activity thus produced is physical dis
ease. But more than this: should be fairly &C.
cu:ed Of quitting the physical for the moral side
Of education here, If It were not that an now |
upon ground, where, more than eny other, body |
and soul, matter and spirit touch each other, and
1t is difficult, II not impossible to draw the dlvid-
ing line. The inter-action Of the two upon each |
other here becomes SO rapid and intense that one |
scarcely knows the relation Of cause and effect |
Irepeat-more than this: The patched and med |
mother does not speak, comes to her CARRIED and |
confused, the sacred seal Of modesty torn off, |
soiled with the touch Of vulgar hands, defaced |
BY the coarse jests Of polite soeioty Its sanctIty
forever missed. The temple has been invaded, |
its white floors trodden by feet from muddy al
leys, the gods thrown down Is not the temple |
as much ruined when this PROCLAMATION has been |
accomplished as II the walls had fallen? will |
not be misunderstood as doubling for one moment
the purity of soul Of the American girls ns q |
whols; but assert that the result OF which
have spoken is terribly common in our large
cities, and that 1t is much more likely to be COM
mon in America than in any other country from
the effect Of our climate, our free institutions,
and the almost universal diffusion Of printed
matter.
The remedy lies alone In the hands Of the
mother, and where girl is away from her mother,
In the hands Of her woman guardian, whoever she
may be. When our women are better educated,
there will be less prudory and more real modesty.
quote again from ResenkranZ because cannot
improve upon his words: "Modessy Is the feeling
Of the primitive harmony Of nature and spirit and
It is very decidedly active in children, however
unconstrained they are with regard TO nature.
True modesty is as far removed from coarseness
as IL is from prudery. Coarseness takes o delight
in making the relation of the sexes the subject Of
ambiguous, witty, shameless talking and jesting,
and it is just as blsmable as prudery, which ex-
ternally affects On innocence no longer existing
therein. Hereis, consequently, the point in which
physical education must pass over into moral edu-
cation, and where the purity Of the heart must
halloW the body"