Year: 1874

A LITTLE TALK TO THE GIRLS An
BoYs.-It is very hard for boys an
girls between 10 and 20 years to believ
what older people tell them concernin
the selection of reading matter. II


book is interesting, exciting, thrilling
the young folks want to read it. The
like to feel their hair stand on end q
the hairbreadth escapes of the hero, an,
their nerves tingle to the ends of thei
fingers at his exploits, and their face
burn with passionate sympathy in hi
tribulations-andw what harm is there il
it? Let us see what harm there ma,
be. Ye know very well that child fe,
on candy and cake and sweetmeats sool
loses all healthy appetite for nutritious
food, his teeth grow black and crumbl,
away, his stomach becomes deranged
his breath offensive, and the Who'll,
physical and mental organization il
dwarfed and injured. When he grow,
older he will crave spices and tobacco
and alcohol to stimulate his abnorma
appetite and give pungency to tasteles!
though healthy food. No man who
grows up from such childhood is goins
to have the first positions of honor anc
trust and usefulness in the community
where he lives. The men who hole
those positions were fed with milk anG
bread and meat when they were younl
and not with trash.


Now, the mind like the body grow
by what it feeds upon. The girl who
fills her brain with silly, sentimental
love-sick stories grows up into a silly
sentimental, lsckadaisical woman, use
less for all the noble and substantial
work of life. The boy who feeds OF
sensational newspapers and exciting
novels has no intellectual muscle, nc
commanding will to make his way il
the world. Then, aside from the de
bilitating effect of such reading, the
mind is poisoned by impure associa
tions. These thrilling stories have
always murder or theft, or lying OF
knavery, as an integral part of theil
tissue, and boys while reading then
live in the companionship of men and
women, of boys and girls, with whom
they would be ashamed to be seen con,
versing, whom they would never think
of inviting to their houses and intro
ducing to their friends, and whose very
names they would not mention in polite
society as associates and equals. Every
book that one reads, no less than every
dinner one eats. becomes part and par.
eel of the individual, and We can nc
more read without injury an unwhole.
some book or periodical than We can
eat tainted meat and not suffer thereby.
just as there are everywhere stores full
Of candy and cake, and liquor and
tobacco and spices, so there are every.
where books, newspapers, and mags-
zines full of the veriest trash, and
abounding in everything boys and girls
should not read. And Just as the
healthful stomach, passing all these
pernicious bats, will choose sound
aliment, so the healthful mind will re-
iect the unwholesome literature current
everywhere, and select such only as is
intrinsically good.


A Word FOR BoYs.-Truth is one OF
the rarest gems. Many a youth has
been lost in society by allowing false,
hood to tarnish his character, and fool.
ishly throwing it away.


If this gem still shines in your bosom
suffer nothing to displace or diminish
its luster.


Profanity is a mark of low breeding.
Show rs a man that commands respect
an oath trembles not on his tongue.
Head the catalogue of crime. Inquire
the character of those who depart from
virtue. Without a single exception
you will find them to be profane. Think
of this, and don't let a vile word dis
grace you.


Honesty, frankness, generosity, vir.
tue-blessed traits Be these yours,
my boys. and we shall not fear. You
will claim the respect and love of all.
You are watched by your elders. Men
who are looking for clerks and appren-
tices have their eyes on you. III you
are profane, vulgar, theatre-going, they
will not choose you. If you are up
right, steady and industrious, before
long you will fud good places, kind
masters, and the prospect of useful
life before YOU


MOTHER AND CHILD. DO animals
love each other?


Certainly. The COW lays her head
over the back Of her calf as tenderly a,
a human mother folds her arms abou
her baby. And there is look of gentle
content and pride in her face, as if vel
satisfied that her own child is the very
prettiest and best in the world this
too, is very like human mother.


Suppose We take away the calf-doei
the mother suffer? Does she express
that suffering by all the means in he
power?..


We know that she does.


Ii, then, the animal creation is bound
to us by that strongest and sweetes
element of our own nature, which w
call affection, shall we not do well t.
follow the good example so long ago Sc
us by st. Francis, who used to call the
birds his "brothers and sisters" anc
who treated all animals as part of the
great brotherhood OF the earth?


INSECT WoRK-Red coral is formed
very slowly. and in deep water, so tina
it is never found in large pieces. WheI
fishers are in search Of it, they row I
boat over that part Of the sea where tn,
coral insect works, and then drop I
large wooden cross with q net at escl
end. into the water this is dragged
along, and gets tangled among th'
rough branches of the coral deep dow
in the water, and breaks off branches
of it which fall into the nets, and ar
picked out and sold to jewellers, VIII
fashion it into the many pretty orna
ments which are SO popular with tn
ladies.


A Docs GRIEF.-A writer says M
father had dog who took care of shee
and COWS in the pasture for years.


My brother went to pay q visit to hi
grandmother q few miles away, an
while there was taken sick and died
The dog went to see him every day
and would steal up stairs into his roor
and when driven out would sit and or
for him. After my brothers death, b
would revisit the place once a weeb
until some one beat him, and he cam
home scarcely able to walk, and 500
after died.