associations, saw' some meaning in them, will regret it, and, as these stately upholders are going, going, almost sone, too, the easy, casual give and take' of less particular people will soon cease to excite remark. A more democratic society does not care so much for polish, finish, the fine, smooth surfaces from which light reflected. Well, it misses something in fastidious taste, but gains greatly in a happy lack of. any unnecessary ceremony.—This lack will not hurt it, if it always keeps the obligation of considerate politeness before its eyes. Looking at other countries, we feel that ease is easier for youth when its daily existence is more mixed with the ages below and above it; where family life, and not individual ife, is the unit. This is not too generally the case here.
Perhaps, for this reason, many. of our young people form' their dwn and their fellows'.ideas of the responsibilities of youth, and goodness knows they are so alive to them that they can't feel the force of their elders' ideas at all! How they despise the mature, bless their fresh, "foolish hearts!" Once upon a time, we brought them up by bringing' them up. Now bring them up by letting them think they are doing the same for us. Tt does not make their manrs so pretty, though, doubtless, their Iearning is about' the same But, then, the flaunting of pretty mariners went out with the starred circles of society.—"Vogue.
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