The Girls That Are Growing Old

Haryer's Buir haa a word of comfort for tho girla who aro beginning to " po off," aa our English oousins liuve it. We gay oar frieud is p:iseo. Is sho past her intolhgenco, hor good nature, her powor oi' eutettainment, hor wit, hw usefuLnose ally 'i On tho contrary she has usu ally but ju:;t attained tho greater part of thom. She tiaa but iust uttainod experience enough to onable lier to compruhond a,nd join in converaation ubove the mediocrity of gossip and titter and compliment ; hor gayety is not moro gisjgling, but Ijlere is in it omething of tho iiush of ucounteiing intellects ; sliü has discretion énough to bo silent ; and knowledgo peale on occasion ; no longor raw, or shy, or painfully solf-conscious, her manaers hr.vo a chuvm of case that irivf.s oaaa to uil around hor : iL aha haa mafUTO, nnd j-ou aro sparod, for instanco, iili:vr horror of 11 school girl's music ; if sho has not the rosy loveliness of her youth, she hi;s a knowledgo of tho arts of tho toilet that makes her dress perfect and herself an attractivo object ; in fact, she has only just become capable of enjoying and giving onjoyment in society ; "and so for iVoui tha young idiots who cali her pasco having any right to cast slars in hor regard, it is sho who woüld 1)0 hérself "the arbiter of society, and h:ivo authority to pronounco whether or not thoy ;ire in any sonse fit to enter its oharmed circlus. Indeed, it may well escite all tho wonder that it does among Europeana, that the young hero are alLowed to absorb all the enjbymehis ofcnïi sociiil lift) - the young who have nothing but their youth or their beauty to give, whose minds and mannora ure alinost totally untrainod and insulHciont ; who are, indeed, objocts of jiloasure to the oye, and v.h.'ivin they yield other pleaauTQ or protit, do so rather in a subsidiary way than in the main. "Vo do not wisu to andervalüö the ciernen'', of innocenco and fresh11CS3 whieh tho young bring, or aro supposód so bring, with thcni ; but we hold that the virtuo of yoars, with their knowl(idge of tho world wo live in - thoir wisdom, thoir grace and their oharity - aro of at lenst equSl value, and deservesequal recognition in tho places whero uien and womon nu'cL togaihr ; ajwJ Vi" protest against thecurvin of tho " contutnolious lip" over the claims to courtosy and considoration of the womaa beyond her giilhood. M .tf&k. - fc fc - - - ■