Lecturing Ladies

I wih young women could be taught that it does not add a cubit to the stature of a house to cali it a"residence ;" that a chnrch or even a meeting house íb as venerable im the " sacred ediflee;" that it is no more genteel to eay "retire" thnu to go to bed ; that the garmeut so fondly, slowly covered with side plaitings, bo coldly and quickly frayed out along the paving stnnes, is renlly a gown and not a "promenade costume ;" that it need not bring a blnsh to the cheek of even Mr. Podsnap's youug person to say log instead of " limb," wlien lcc is moant ; that the Bupper at an evening party is not " the entertainment ;" and fhatthcre are wellfouaded objections to the uro of " nioely " aa an aijective deseribing the state of one's health. " To clothe low creeping matter with fine lnnguage," saíd oíd Fuller, " is not uno fanoy, but flat foolery." It rather londs than raises a wren to fasten the feathers of an ostrich to her