Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-04
To Girls.


ence as 4 woman is great for good or evil.
Upon woman devolves the duty of training
up the future men of the nation. 1t is the
mother who molds the character; under
her gentle influence the youthful mind re-
ccives its first impressions. In society she
is queen, and all men are her subjects.
| Therefore she must be careful in her de-
pertinent, BY word or even a looh, She
can encourage or etfectually check all at
tempts at familiarity. If women, and 6S-
pccially girls, would do this it they
would show their displeasure at What
they know is wrong-it would not be re-
peated in their presence. Though the
aggressor might feign anger, in his heart
he would feel more true respect tor one
who had thus reprcted him than if che
passed his fault unrcbuked. And, again,
don't make yourself cheap - within the
reach of all. Few young ihef want any
thing to do with cheap young lady. For
a wife, none but fool or a rascal will ap-
proach such Il woman. Cheap jewelry no.
body will touch if he can get any better:
Cheap girls are nothing but the tefuse,
and the young men know it, and they will
look in every direction for lifelong friend
and companion before they will give Il
glance at the pinchbccll stuff that tinkles
at every turn to f;iScinate any eyes that
will look. You think it is quite the ''cor-
rect thing" to tall; loudly and coarsely. be
boisterous and hoydcnish in all public
places; to make yourself so bold and for
ward and commonplace everywhere, that
people wonder if you ever had a mother
or Il home, or anything to do. SO be it.
You vii. probably be taken for what you
are worth, and one of these years, it you.
do not make worse than a shipwreck Of
yourself, you will begin to wonder where
the charms are that once yoi. thought
yourself possessed of. and what evil spirit
could have so betooled you.
What II Boy Thought About 1t.
"Well, Jim" said one schoolboy to an
other, as they met at the noon recess, "how
do you like the new house, Like moth
ing contemptuously replied the other.
.Ther's seven boys in tie block all big
germ me. and no one c;ltr boss: the tele-
graph pole before the door is full of splin-
ters, ard it's worth Il fellows life, let alone
the legs of his trousers, to try and climb
up It; the "rccti's store round the corner
has got Il big dog. and wire ncttings over
tie appIes anu Things, anu aUo%elnerlls
regular old cave of gloom, like what Beech
er talks about. tell you it amt a circllln-
stance to the house we left, if it has got the
modern improvements, and the rent is
cheaper. aud there's mUte room. That
house, Jimmy. WAS like what l think
heavcn'll be like. Sprin9time you could
sail for blocks and blocks in the cutters on
sections of the sidewalk, and every winter
there were skating rinks upon skating
Kinks on all the lots round. Not boy on
the street more n seven years old, and eV-
cry one OF them would pay ME marble
or the first bite of his apple, every day in
the week. ter me Hot to knock off his hat,
or shoot him with pea-shooter where his
clothes were tight. And as for groceries,
the Dutchman round the corner was too
blind to see you hook anything, and, if he
did, he was too fat I'd run far: 1tell you it
was little heaven on evrth. People might
have some regard for their children when
they move.''-Boston Transcript