Poor Men's Wives

The trouble is, none of our youug wumen are willing to become poor men's wives professedly, even though they may bo so in reality. The girl who marries upon a t housand dollars a year looks forward to a Ufe Bpent in second-iate boarding houses, f rom wnich she wlll squeeze out a certain cheap domesticity and some expensive pleasures. The children which heaven may send are not thought of nor provided for. It is a question whether the young" wif o can make herself a dress or prepare herself a wholesome meal of victuala. She inarries for freedorn, to liave a good time, spends money which she neither earns nor helps to earn - for heaven knows what - but certainly not to make a comfortable if humble home for her hii3band. In this respect we consider the British girl has an immenso advantage over the American. From the highest to the lowest circlesof society in Britian, girls are trained to make good and useful wives. Inasmuch as laclies preside over the department of their housoliolds, and see that everything is kept clean and the food is well cooked, so also in the lower classes, moth;rs teach their daughters to do the same for tlietnselves, without sulïering any loss of dignity in the doing of it. Mauy of our American girls wil! be surprised to learn that Princes3 Louise frequently makes her own pastry - and I raakes it well, too.