"  The  evils  arising  from  the  excessive  liberty  permitted  to  American
youth  cannot  be  cured  by  laws.     If  we  are  ever  to  root  it  out,  it

must  begin  at  the  very  bottom.     Family  life  must  be  reformed

For  children  parental  authority  is  the  only  sure  guide.  Coleridge
well  said  that  he  who  was  not  able  to  govern  himself  must  be  gov-
erned by  others,  and  experience  has  shown  that  chilclren  of  civilized
parents  are  as  little  able  to  govern  themselves  as  the  children  of  sav-
ages  The  liberty,  or  rather  the  license  of  our  youth  will

have  to  be  curtailed.  As  our  society  is  becoming  complex  and  arti-
ficial, like  older  societies  in  Europe,  our  children  will  have  to  approxi-
mate to  them  in  status,  and  parents  will  have  to  waken  to  a  sense
of  their  responsibilities,  and  postpone  their  ambitions  and  tbeir
pleasures  to  their  duties." — Review  of  StatemenU  made  hy  Mr.  Cbw-
stock,  Special  Agent  of  Post  Office  ^Department.
**  Though  fools  spurn  hymen's  gentle  powers.
We,  who  improve  the  golden  hours.
By  sweet  experience  know
That  marriage,  rightly  understood,
Gives  to  the  tender  and  the  good
A  paradise  below." — Cotton.
It  is  greatly  to  be  regretted  that  in  America  tlie  circum-
stances which  most  tend  to  make  or  mar  women  receive  so
little  attention.  Upon  our  daughters  are  usually  centred
all  that  generosity  and  the  sincerest  affection  can  bestow.
