Slurs On Women

At a recent dinner in New York $t which no lailies were present, a man, in respomling to the toast "woman," dwelt almost solely on the frailty oí the sex, claiming that the best araong them werc little better than the worst, the chief difference being in their snrroundings. At the conclusión ef his speech a gentleman present rose to his feet and said: "I trust the srentloman, in the tion of his remarks, refera to bis own mother and sisters, not to ours." The effect of this ruost just and timelv rebnke was overwhelming; the maligner of women was oovered with confusión and shame. This incident serves an excellent purpose in prefacing a few words on this subject. Of all the evils prevaleut anionginen, we know of none more blighting in its moral eft'ects than the tendency to speak slightingly of the virtueof women. Nor is there anything in which young men are so thoroughly mistaken asinthelow estímate they form of the integrity of women - nöt of their own niothcrs and sisters, thank God, but of others, who they target are somebody else's mothers and sisters. Plain words shftuld bo spoken on this point, for the evil is a general one, and deep-rooted. If young men are sometimes thrown into the society of thoughtli's- or bad women, they have no more right to measure all 'other women by what they sée of tliese than they would have to estímate the character of honest and respectable citizens by the develop.neiils of crime in our pólice courts. Lel young men remeiuber that their chief happiinesa in life depends upon their fait li in woman. No worldly wisdom, no misnnthropic philosophy, no generaliaatioa eau eover or waken this fundamental truth. It stands like the d of God hiraself for it is nothing tan this - and should put an everlasting t-eal apon tlie Ups that are wont to speak slightingly of women.