Concerning Young Ladies

In Cinoinnatí wc learnthatthe young ladies are valuable because they paint on china ; in J ouisville beeauso they paiut somelhing else- porhapa the lily; in Boston becauso they think they onderstand Emerson and know how to bake beans and porkinmolasscs; in St. Louis beejuise they have groat and responsible knowledge of the classics; in Chicago because they wear immense shoes; in New York because they know how to dress; in Washington beeausothey can't speak English; in New Orleana boc:mso thoy liave black oyes and red lip, and in other j)laces the girls are set forth on account of various other things. Thcrc never did, and never will, exist anything permanently noble and excellent in a charaeter whicli is :i stranger to thoexercisea of resolute selfdenlal.