the master key that can open all. Emerson said:

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Give a boy dress and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes wherever he goes. He has not the trouble to earn nor to own them; they solicit him to enter and possess."

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Everybody avoids a repulsive personality. An offensive manner jars upon refined taste. "Virtue itself offends when coupled with a forbidding manner." More men succeed in life by their kindliness of manner than by their talents. manners, like the sunshine, are welcome everywhere. The world needs much of this sunshine, and it has great rewards for those who supply its wants. Good manners are the rails on which you can ride into the Union Depot of Success. If your passing provokes a hiss you have laid the rails wrong; if it wins applause you are on the right rails and the depot is not far distant.

A few gentlemen are born, far more are made. Old William of Wykeham said, "Manners maketh man," but it were nearer the truth to say,

Man makes his manners," and his manners make his success or account for the lack of it.

Teach your boy to be strictly honest in all his dealings with his brothers and sisters. Cheating in childish games and disregard of the property rights of others should not go unrebuked by parents. If a boy disregards the rights of his brothers and sisters he will grow up to disregard the rights of men.

Caution your boy to be scrupulously honest in little things. It may be a small thing to insist that he cannot honestly use the postage stamps of his employer for his private correspondence. The amount involved is trivial, but the principle is all-important.

Should a father read this page, let me say to him that he has duties, too. Happy is the father who is happy in his boy, and happy is the boy who is happy in his father. Some fathers are not wise. They reserve all their social charms for strangers, are dull at home, forbid their children to go into the nicely furnished rooms, make home as irksome as possible, forget

that they were once young, deny their children every amusement and pleasure. Many of the sons of most pious parents turn out badly because they are surfeited with severe religion, not the religion of Christ, who was Himself reproved by the prototypes of such severe folks. However busy you are, find a few moments at least every day to romp with your boy. The father who is too dignified to carry his boy pick-back, or, like Luther, to sing and dance with his children, or, like Chalmers, to trundle the hoop, lacks not only one of the finest elements of greatness, but fails in one of his plainest duties to his children. One of the inalienable rights of your children is happiness at your hands. Remember that the children belong as much to you as to your wife, and it is only just that the little time you are in the house you should relieve her of those cares that are her daily portion.

Don't turn your boy out to spend the night

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know not where. Don't allow him to go out at night to see the sights or to find pleasure in the amusements of the city unless you go with

him until he is grown to man's estate and his habits are formed. If you want to make your boy's destruction sure, give him unwatched liberty after dark.

There are many things of which ignorance is bliss and wisdom folly-things which a man cannot learn without being damaged all his life. "As an eel, if he were to wriggle across your carpet, would leave a slime which no brush could take off, so there are many things which no person can know and ever recover from the knowledge of."

THE HOME AND THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF

WOMEN.

OMAN is not the inferior of man. There

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is no fair question of superiority or inferiority; it is foolish to raise it. In their own way, each is both inferior and superior; the inferiority is no cause of shame, the superiority no reason for glorying. They are unlike, each incomplete without the other, and it is in their unlikeness that their power over each other lies, and against every attempt to destroy or diminish that unlikeness the instinct of either sex will forever impose an insurmountable barrier, making every manly man recoil from a masculine woman, with a repulsion equaled only by that which a sensible woman feels for an effeminate man.

Ruskin well sums up the controversy over the question of the equality of the sexes, thus: "We