, 1892-12-17

O'Clock. or if the evening has been very de-
6obtfnl" we would even cancede them an
other half hour or so. They can then retire to
their beds at a reasonable lopfr, like reasona-
BILE people, and rise IN the morning ut Tor
their DAYS duties and with none but pie SAM
recollections Of the previous evening. lney
wiki then be able to go to thelr tennis on Tor
their walk in the afternoon, instead OF loun9-
inc on the sofa, reading one Of those novels
n which we .before referred, and which are
generally so trashy that no sensible man can
pet through a single page Of them, But what
nonsense are we talking? Does not everybody
know that novels (most Of them are not man-
ufactured for sensible men! We might just
AZ we'll have remarked, that no sensible man
can get his foot into a satin slipper. But we
are decreasing !, was not novel reading but
dancing that we were speaking Of. II dancing
as an exercise for young ladies can be recon-
mended in England, much more can It be re-
commended in this warm latitude, where the
glare and heat of the day prevent much QUIZ
door exercise and we think that p%rdctlsed IN
the moderate way we have above described
nothing but good can come OF 1t. Al the same
time we should be very sorry to see our young
ladies neglect outdoor exercises. We are glad
to know that tennis is in favour, especially ~
West End it seems at present, and as the
mornings and evenings at least are cool
enough to allow Of outdoor exercise, this
should be encouraged at such times, not only
in the form Of ennis playing but IN walks
along the country roads and through the heid
We gee no reason either why some OF our
young ladies should not take to botany or
entomology and stroll over the country near
their respective places of abode With lens or
butterfly net in hand, thus providing them
selves with attractions for taking outdoor 9x-
e1cise and means Of mental Improvement az
the same time. We fear, however, yes we
fear, that if any Santa Cruz young lady were
Keen doing such things she would be PIo-
nounced BY her companions to be-.wel 70
use polite language, let us say eccentric but
if we were privileged TO be the mouse N the
corner of the drawing room where her dolng8
were discussed, we suspect that we should
hear her described in palmer, though equally
fgurative, English as "cracked."
For why. indeed, should a young lady try
to catch a butterfly when in flct she herself is
the butte fly to be caught? This Is a question
that may be asked, but it is not ours please
consider that we have seen II somewhere or
have heard it asked in a dream. We would
never libel the sex by asking any such ques-
ton ourselves. Our question would rather be:
Why should anyone presume toteg'rd a young
lady as a butterfly when IN reallty'she is some
thlng INFINITELY nlgner lIutn' W"Ofo'
oompels us to say that some young adde's, not
in Santa Cruz, Of course, but'in other parts Of
the world. do behave very much as il they
mistook themselves for butterflies. For Il Is
only a mistake, thank God, after all for be-
tween the young lady butterfly and the real
butterfly there is this essential difference,
that the real butterfly has attained it's highest
development, it has passed through all the
stages shat it has to pas through, and will
now spend the rest of its days as a butterfly
end will die as a butterfly, while the case IS
entirely different with the young lady butter
fly. If, after a long and aolniring c~ontempla-
rion of the gracefulness of her form, the
brightness of her eyes and the pretty colours
If her wings, she awakes to see how much
higher a being she is than a butterfly, she
may continue to develope and may change
into a good and noble.woman, with a keen
sense of the duties that lie before her in the
world, high hopes and fears and lofty resolves,
a being to be counted samong the greatest
blessings that God E has conferred on this
world.
But here we feel that we have come in our
rambllngs upon sacred ground, SO we will re-
tire and wend our way home again, leaving
our remarks behind, some as chaff and some,
if indeed any may be found worthy of the
comparison, as useful seed, to find q home
somewhere, it may be, and grow.