Providing For Daughters

ïho wave of liappincss and comfort for single luiddle aged women would bc made rauch easier if a different inethod were pursued by paients toward tlieir daughters while they are still young. Half the terrors of a single life to a woman He in the fact that she will never have a home of her owo, but must remain a dependent on fathers and brotliers ; the one too many in the liousehold ; the beocficiary on sufferance in the family, though she actually works twice as mueh as the actual members. A father naturally sets his boy on his feet at coming of' age ; but as naturally keeps his daughter dependent on himself. It is as pleasant, perhaps, to hira to give her her gowus ;ind pin raoney at 30 as when at tLree. He doe-i nut reflect that she bas the longing, equally natural to every man and woman, to take her own placo in the world : to be a rooted plaot, not a parasite. The difflculty is easily solved. If the father is wealthy, let him settle absolutely upon his daughter when she is of marrying age the amount he would have given her as a dower, instead of doling out the interest n constant gift ; f he is a poor man, I et him give her sonie trade or occupation by which sho can earn her own money. T!iU oourae would obviate the mercenary noomijtj' uf marriage, which rises night and day before the penniless, dupendont