it has brought new knowledge of the power
and wisdom of God, the Creator and Conservator of the Universe. The
wisdom thus born out of selfishness will inculcate in those to follow
him the folly of selfishness, and the tastelessness of its brightest
apples of gold.

BE KIND TO THE OLD BACHELOR.

When he tries to be friendly, give him a lift. His mode of life has left
him with many advantages for usefulness which married people have not
got. On committees and in preliminary work he is often the best man in
the neighborhood. At funerals, in sickness, he has been known to be
almost the very instrument of the merciful Father. Teach the young
ladies that he is harder to "catch" than they suppose, and perhaps they
will turn toward him a portion of their character which will please him
better with womankind.

TO HEAR SOME MEN TALK,

and from experience, too, you would think that a breed of creatures born
from such women as are now living would be a herd of monsters, incapable
of civilization and refinement. And yet the world will go on, and we
know, almost, that our posterity will bring about wonders in the arts
and sciences, and perhaps even in society itself,--wonders which will
even surpass the triumph of our own generation. We are on the eve of
both traveling and talking through the bare air. We are in a way to
avoid the worst of our wars. It cannot be that the women who will bear
the men who will do all these things are to be

JUDGED AS THE BACHELORS VIEW THEM.

The bachelor sees as through a glass, darkly. Being, for the time,
incapable of the passion of love, having failed to exercise it when it
came upon him, he thus rails at woman. If you are young enough, watch
the events of the next thirty years, and see how they will give the lie
to such a tirade as this, from

THE SAME BACHELOR

I quoted at the start: "Not one-half of our marriages have unbiased love
as a foundation on both sides. (The love is usually on the man's side.)
A woman marries for money, position, spite, pride, contrariness, fear of
being an old maid, or for a home which she thinks will afford her more
pleasure than the one she leaves. Love is the last thing to enter her
head, and never her heart. Men of real sound judgment in business throw
this judgment entirely aside when they come to select a wife. A man
might better remain single than marry with the chances nine out of ten
in favor of his making a mistake for life."

SEE HOW LIT