The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-07-21

bus and other points to assist In the funeral
services. He leaves family of six childr en-,
some of whom promise to attain the dimen-
stems in which he gloried. He was univer-
sally liked for his social qualities.
Four English Girls.
| Pail Mall Gazette.
A father contributes the following history
of his four daughters:
With their mother there died out of the
family all cut-and-drled notions of what
girls might do and what they might not.
/" You can't 60 out by yourself" You
would be the only woman there ~" What
will people say ?"-" Your brothers would
not like It such words never perplexed my
uncrushed offspring. Where / was not
ashamed to go myself, was not ashamed of
seeing them 60. Neither were they fettered
by the idea that two Of them could 60 to-
gether where neither Of them could 60 alone.
Aiming at health and economy, and away
from the boredom and cramping effects of
conventional proprieties, buried my chill
dren as long as they we're children in acoun-
try solitude. There boys and girls were ed
ucated together till their school and college
days, and thence, equally independent and
equally endowed, with my blessing and
counsel, but without any sort of interference
from me, they have gone out into the world.
Diana is literary, but not, fancy, brill
liant. critiques upon sporting publica-
tions and papers on natural history I saw de-
scribed lately as "from the pen of a man
who rarely sat DESK and in whose hands
the bride and fishing-rod were more familiar
than the pen." She keeps livery in
cathedral town, and is hand. glove with
| the dean and chapter. She horses the bish-
ops carriage, and dimes at his table, which
she often supplies with trout and eels, and
Of her own catching; and she sometimes
serves up dishes Of strange ethics, which 60
down less well In the cathedral close. She
would, / rather suspect, have married q
minor canon had he not unwisely consulted
her about allowing her sister to 90 out as a
missionary.
Perenna p earnest, and l candldly confess
do not altogether understand her. She ac-
quired an unfortunate taste while staying
with my sister-in-law for always doing what
Is most disagreeable to herself, and though
she does It with alacrity and well-simulated
interest, 1t makes me uncomfortable. She
spends her time in nursing, but exhibits the
family independence, that neither the litera-
ture Of self-sacrifce nor her poke. bonnet can
extinguish, by riding daily from her country
cottage to her town hospital on tricycle.. It
Is said that she races with the medical stu
dents In the suburbs.
Angelina is in partnership with her brother
Edwin on farm in Texas. She writes to
me by last mail: "Now that we have q
house and fair prospect of an increasing In
come, Edwin talks of marrying. To equal
ize our stake shall almost be driven to
similar step. Anyway I am going home for
your birthday. lwant run with the bea-
giles and a rat-hunt with Carl, If he has any
teeth or nose left in his old head, and want
to see for myself If the conventional humbug
Of English life is all that Ella declares II is.,
Ella, by choice, lives at home, and, Of her
own accord, never goes farther than her legs,
or those Of her black pony, can carry her.
Her aunt speaks Of her shocking clothes, her
unfortunate tastes, her passion for low soci-
ETY., and her extraordinary friends. The
fact Is, as long as she is comfortable, she does
not care what she puts on, nor while she is
useful what she does; so long as she Is
amused she cares not whom she Is with, and
the moment people confdc In her their JOYS
and sorrows become more to her than her |
own. She Is more Of mechanic and less Of |
sportsman than her sisters, for she likes 10
see animals at peace and not Austered. To |
this end have known her to sleep In the
stable; stand motionless, like heron, In . |
swamp, watching the wild birds 5 and prowl |
about ont Of doors 1t all hours Of the night
She hangs the gates, mends the wheelbar- |
rows, and sets the mole-traps; and, though /
by no means "a jolly girl" tho children |
who come In contact with her have tha 6rm
belief that, under all circumstances, Ella i
always joviai." |
Pardon, sir, . fathers pride in such Girls
my sisser-in-law would say In myself and
the nnfeminins monsters who have turned |
upon the wisdom Of their mothers. Let me
cease 70 sdOrn tale and proceed briefly 70
point moral. Let girls have real freedom |
and fair play, and the "epicens creasuren
will die natural death. There will be no
wish % ape the man when women are
free to. live natural and rational lives.
There will b no attempt 70 "attract men by
An ugly masquerade" when women need not
starve 4 they do not marry. Liberty, equal
place Of conventional bondage, subjectiou,
and compulsory matrimony, if women are
not TO continue 70 be " In our hours Of ease
uncertain, coy, and hard 70 please" /,