Slurs On Women

At a recent dinner in New York, at whick no ladies were present, a man, in respouding to the tost, "Woman," dwelt almost solely on the frailty of the sex, claiming that the best among them were little better than th worst - the chief difference being in their rarrounding. At ths conclusión of his speech, a gentleman present rose to hi feet and said: " I trust the gentleman, in the application of his remarks, refera to hig own mother and sisters, not to ours." The effect of this just and timelj reImke was overwhelming ; the maligner of women was covered with confusión and shame. This incident serves an excellent purpose in prefacing a few words on this subject. Of all the evils prevalent among men, we know of none more blighting in its moral effecta than the tendency to speak slightingly of the virtue of women. Nor is there anything in which young men are so thoroughly miataken as in the low estimate they form of the integrity of women - not of their own mothers and sisters, thank God, but of others, who tliey forget are soniebody else's mothers and sisters. Plain wordg should be spoken on üiis point, for the evil is a general one and deep-rooted. If young men are eometinies thrown into the aociety of thoughtless or bad wonien, they have no more right to measure all other women by what they see of these than they would hav to estímate the character of honest and respectable citizens by the development of crime in our pólice oourta. Let young meu remember that their chief happiness in this world dependa npon their faith in woman. No worldly wisdom, no misanthropio philosophy, no generalization can cover or weaken this fundamental truth. It stands like the record of God himself - for it is nothirig less than this - and should put au everlasting seal upon the lips that are wont to espeak slightingly of women.