Virtue Its Own Reward

"I have been young and now am ld, " said one of the charming ïniddle-aged women of the period, whose looks belie the baptismal register, and who rather enjoy arrogating to theraselvos tlio wisi dom and experience of age, says th I New York Tribune. "And I hav reached that period of life," she con tinued, "when I can look back and se results and note how seldom those who are born with silver spoons in thei mouths, as the saying is, have the sil ver fork when they are grown up When I look back and remember who were the jeunesse doree of my youth- the men whose lives and positiont above all others seemed particular enviable and desrrable- and Uien look about me and see how few of those who were called men of pleasure in thos days have attained an honorable aiwl useful middle age, I feel that I an preach a sermón to my boys and thfiir friends with object lessons that ougtet to make it very impressive. Sonie are poor, having spent health and substance, like the prodiga! son, in riotous living. Even those wio have apparently not suffered in purse or health are a set of discontented, blasé, weary worldlings, who go over the :;ame treamill of fashionable existence year by year without pleasure or profit. An; other thing I have noticed from my vantarro ground of a lifelong experience is tbat, if only as a purely worldly maxim, houesty is certainly the best policy. Many a brilliant man I hav-e seen who has destroyed his prospects by the crooked ways in which he sought to better himself financially, politioally, and even socially, -whereas if he walked honorably before all men he would have gained the world's good opinin, and in many instances the very things he coveted. And finally there are the j ycung married couples of my youth. In nine cases out of ten those of my friendg wlio married poor young men, and who gave up the luxuries of their homes to prove veritafcle ielpmeets to the men of their choice, are now almost without exception prosperous, and in many cases, wealthy,while those men and girls who married for money are, as a rule, greatly in want of it. 'Be good and you will be happy' is the old maxim, and certainly it seems truc from a raaterialistic as well as from a reügious point of view."