Year: 1869




old fashioned open fire place, with


its cheerful wood fire roaring up the


chimney, and its outposts of apples


and cider. But they would do little


good in these days, when nobody


would stay at home to enjoy them.


Everybody and every institution
EN- to have consplred to make
it impossible to gather the family at
home for quiet evening. There
are lectures and concerts and fairs
Ito say nothing of opera, theater
and ball-which are not yet quite of
the past. If family belonging to
10 the church and do not turn aside
to the irivolities, and but occasion
ally to the public social and intel
iectual entertainments, there are
prayer meetings and conference
meetings, there are preaching meet
ings and special meetings and re-
vival meetings. Ard then there are
reading rooms and Christian associ-
ations snd unions for Christian
work, and the lyceum and the sing
ing schools and the glee club. 1t is
easy TO say which of these institu-
tions OF civilization or Christianiza-
tions should be given up-rather the
effort of society is to invent and Or
ganize new appliances for pleasure
and profit. The church adds a
lyceum, the literary associations, II
prayer ;ueeting, or the Christian
Union = hillisrd room. We are not
sitting in Judgment ON these modi-
tications OF society, or inclined to
write ourselves old fogy by lament
ing the degeneracy OF the tines
Yetone may bepardoned for desiring
to find room in these crowded days
for so good an institution as an eve
ming st home


Christian associations and unions
and reading rooms are good so far
as they afford safe and pleasant re-
treats for strangers in the city, who
are shut out from the privileges of
the home circle, and lure the wan
dering from the temptations of vice.
But so far rs they lead our youth
from the quiet Of home and create or
Increase the craving for publicity
they are not blessings Better the
few books and well read of our faith
ers in quiet homes, than all the
C Uwded shelves Of the great libraries
and reading rooms, filled with
trashy, sensational literature of the
day, with the loss of the home st
mosphere. Our merchants and
wealthy employers are princly in
the bestowment of their names 10
build up public institutions for the
benefit of the homeless. Would
they not do more good at less ex-
pense by making their homes free to
their clerks and employees, and pro-
vide for them pleasant social eve
nings at home.--Pr0y5dence Journal.


The Coming Girl,


She will vote, will be OF some use
in the world, will'cook her own food,
will earn her living. and will not die
an old maid The coming girl will
not wear Grecian bend, dance the
Norman, ignore all possibilities of
knowing how to work, will not en-
deavor to break the hearts of un-
sophisticated young men, will spell
correctly, understand English before
she affects French, will preside with
equal grace at the piano and the
washboard, will spin more yarn for
the house than for the street. will not
despise her plain clad mother, her
poor relations, or the hand of an
honest worker; will wear bonnet,
speak good, plain, unlisping English;
will darn her own stockings, will
know how to make doughnuts. and
will not read the New York Ledger
oftener than she does her Bible.


The coming girl will walk five
miles a day, if need be, to keep her
cheeks in glow; will mind her health,
her physical development, and her
mother; will adopt a costume both
sensible and conducive to comfort
and health will not eontound hypo-
crisy with politeness: will not prac-
tice lying to please. instead or frank
ness will have the courage to cut
an unwelcome acquaintance; will not
think that duplicity IS French refine
ment; that assumed hospitality,
where hate dwells in the heart, is
better than outspoken condemnation;
will rot confound grace of movement
with silly affection; will not regard
it as the end OF her very being to
have a beau; will not smile and be q
villain still.


The coming girl will not look to
Paris but TO reason for her fashions;
will not aim 10 follow foolish
fashion because milliners and dress
makers have deereed it. Duty will
be her sim. and life living sacrifice,