Great Mistake Of The Rich

You havo no right, becauso_you are well off, to concludo that your children are going to bc as well off. A man died, leaving a lüige fortune. His son, a few months ago, feil dead in a Philadelphia grog-shop. His oíd comrades carne in and said, as they bent over his corpse : " What is the matter with you, Boggsey?" The surgeon standing over him said : " Hush up ! ho is dead ! " " Ah ! he is dead ! " they say. " Come boys, let us go and take a drink in memory of poor Boggsey ! " IIuvo you nothing better than money to leave your children ? If you have not, but send your daughters into the world with empty brain and unskilled hand, you are guilty of assassination, homicide, regicide, infanticide, - compared with which that of poor Hestor vaughn was innocence. Theni are womcn toiling in our cities for three and four dollars por week who were the daughters of merchant princes. These Bufiering ones now would bo glad to have the crumbs that once feil trom their fnthers' tfibles. Thatwom out, broken shoo that she wears is the lineal descendant of the twelve-dollar gaitera in which her motb.gr walked ; and that torn and faded calicó had an ancestry of magnificent brocado, that swopt Broadway clean without any expenso to the street commissioners. Though you live in an elegant residenee, and faro sumptuously' evcry day, let your daughters feel it is a disgrace to them not to know how to work. I denounce the idea, prevalent in society, that though our young wonien may embroider slippers, and crochet, and in i la' muts for lamps to stand on, without disgrace, the idea of doing anything for a livt'lihood is dishonorable. It is a shame for a young woman, bclonging to a largo family, to be inefficiënt when tho father toils bis Ufe away for her support. It is a shame for a daughter to be idle while her mothor toils at the wash-tub. It is as honorable to sweep house, mako bods, or trim hats, as it isto twist a watch-chain.