thoughtfulness and judgment of maturer people, we certainly
have a right to expect that they will endeavor to acquire a habit of
thoughtfulness in regard to the convenience and interests of others. It
is this want of thoughtfulness that often betrays young people into
doing very improper and injurious things. Parents and teachers are
constantly troubled by finding that their children and pupils do things
which they never thought of forbidding them to do. That which all good
and faithful teachers strive to do is to develop in their pupils such a
sense of propriety and thoughtfulness and such a high moral sense as
will make them _a law for right unto themselves_. They want to cultivate
and to see them cultivating in themselves a strong practical
common-sense and a wise sense of propriety. Without such common-sense
and innate sense of propriety, the longest set of rules would be
useless. For instance, if your teachers were to set about making a set
of rules do you suppose any one of them would have thought of making
such rules as: "Young ladies are not permitted to go to the roof of the
house and sit with their feet dangling over the railings of the
balcony;" or "Young ladies must not go into people's pastures and catch
their ponies to go riding;" or "When young ladies are out riding in a
buggy it is not allowable for one of the young ladies to ride on the
horse which the others are driving."

A hundred rules might be gotten up forbidding the doing of a hundred
things, the only evil of which is that they are outlandish and
unbecoming; not modest, or ill-mannered, and behind which there is no
evil intent--only thoughtlessness. The same endowment of common sense
ought to teach young people to do those things which will promote their
health, and not to do those things which would injure it. The greatest
blessing to a young person, especially to a young woman, is good
health; but unless she will take care of it herself, it is an almost
hopeless task to attempt to take care of it for her. You may have heard
the somewhat slangy expression sometimes made about stupid and conceited
young men, that they "don't know enough to come in when it rains." It
is, however, an almost just complaint of many a pretty and otherwise
sensible young woman that she apparently doesn't know enough to put on
overshoes when it rains, or to change thin clothing for thick when it
grows cold. There is needed among young girls everywhere such a
development