Knocked About In The World

It is (i good thing for a youug man to e "krtocked about in the worki," though lis soft-hearted parents ïnay not tliink bo. All youths, or, it not all, certftinly niñeta n-lwentieths of the sum total, enter ife with a Burplusage of sulf-conceit. The sooner they are rolieved of it the better. if, in moasuring thomsolves with wiser and older men than they are, they discover tluit it is unwarranted, and get rid of it graoofully, of their own accord, well aud good ; if not, it is desirable, for their own gakes, that it be kuocked out of :hein. A boy that is sent to a large school soon limls his lovel. IIÍ3 will niay have beun jjarmnount ut hume ; but school boys are democratie in their ideas, umi, il arrogant, are suro to be thrashed into a recoguition of the golden rulo. Tho world is a great public school, and itsoon teachei ■ new pupil bis proper pluce. 11 he has tho attributes that bolong to a Leader, he wiil be installed in the position of a leader ; if not, whatever bis opinión of his abilities may be, ho will bn pelled to f all iu witli the rank and lile. It' iiot ctestined to gieatucss, the nexi bost thing to wliich uan uspire is re spectabihty ; but no man can either be truly trieat or reapectable who is vain, pounous und ovirboaring. By the time the iiovico has found bis legitímate social position, be the same high or low, the probabilitj is that the disagreeable traits of liis character will be sottened down or worn away. Most likely ti_e procesa of abrasirn will be rough ; but when it is all over, and ho bepms to seo hiiusclf as others seo him. and not u-flt'fted in the mirror of selfconceit, he may be thankful that ho has run the guuntlut, and arrived; though by a rough voad, at self-knowledge. Upen the whole, whatever loving mothers may thiiik to the contrary, itis a good thing for voutb9 to be knockod about in the worïdit makee mm thonx.