Gold-dust For Girls

Nothiog is coarscr. more repulsivo, and -jisurer sgn of vulgarity in the grain than j'old, indelicate, forward conduct by girls .n public places, Tet I know young girls Jvho are not vulgar, not coarse, not unrei ined, who, through mere giddinesa and houghtlessness, ofi'end in this way, and iring harsh criticisms upon themselres. Flipy are regarded as far worse than they really are, and they lose wbat is girlhood's jnost attractive ehann, tho grace of mod 'Sty, by their unfortunate and hoydenish i :nanner. Ezquisite marmers, let me teil you, are jworth several other polite accomplishJments put together. When I see a sehoollirl who remembers to offer her seat to an JiJd lady or au elderly gentleman ; who j remembers to givo the newspaper to her I lathor when he comes down to breakfast and has only a fe.W minutes to read its world-sheaf of news ; who remembers that it is not kind to huiry her eldest sisJter's reading of some attractive book, nor polite to begin the book till the other has linishedit; who remembers to sluit the ■loor softly, and to find places in the Bible 1 lor aged eyes ; to be good to the little mindering one who is always eraving souiej thing from sister, and who remembers ali ays to be a lady everywhere, I am sure 1 that I have found one who will be a queen "I home. if not of society. _A graccful, gracious, tender, considérate I girl will inevitably mako a glorious woI man by and by. From the sweet, halfI npened bud there will bc evolved the rich I pwfection of the lovcly ilower. You must I ihink it troul)lesome sotnetimes to be pcI ntliar as to the way you speak to the peoI pie in your own house. "It is only brothI i-r Dan or cousin Matilda," you say ; why ■lioulil I iriodulate my voice, and sollen my tones, and be so gentle in my bearing to them ? liecausc it is the being lovejy Md courteoua and windsome every day and all day, to the brother and eousin, to the companion andfriend, to thechiid aml rvant, which will raould you into a jrentlewoman, whose mnnners will bc as miich a part of herself as the inner fibre pf liis character. To such a one it will be impossible to coinmit an act of rudeness M to teil a lie, ánd as natural to say and 'lo agreeablc thinga as to puton hergloves before going to church. [And. then, ought lo wish tu be polite and gen lie and good, Wd not merely to aeem so. - Ed. XcwsLetter.] And aow for more advice: Do not use slaag. The average school-girl has, i regret to sav, quite a vocabulary of slang, lll ready for use. Young ladies who look lke tho vory pinks of propriety, allow Ihemselves to utter phrases which are scarcely excusable in their brothers, and which shockingly offend every tradition of flegance and every canon of taste. They 'lo it for fun, and once in a while, as Üxey tliink, forgetting that they are forraing a "bit whicíi may not only becomc a líateful blot on their beauty, but which may seriously liindcr and obstruct them atsonie luture period. " By thy words thou art condemned, and by thy words thou art Jiwtified," wo are told in the book of infinite wisdom.- l[rs. M, E. Sangstw.