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Show Kducute the Girla. "Educate the girls," says on exchange, "and the hoys will soon 1)0 there." They will, Indeed, if the girls are tolerably good looking. And they won't wait until tho course of instruction is fully completed cither. I have known a young man to get more than half through his courting bo-fore bo-fore he thought to ask his girl whether she hud any education or not. So it won't do to depend too much on such maxims as the above; they ore apt to mislead. Should the father of an attractive daughter defer her education, thiuking that tho boys would keep away in consequeuce, he would find that ho had mado a mistake They will como just as readily as they would were shea whole female seminar? of learning. learn-ing. Then, on the other hand, if you push tho education of a homely, disugreeahlo girl with the utmost diligence, will the lioys "he there?" Not much they won't. They will go around the corner uud sit up with the pretty girl who never saw the inside of a school house iu her life. This is perhaps wrong, but it is the way the world goes with tho young and thoughtless. When Adam was courtinu the fair Eve, did he inquire in-quire what seminary sho graduated from,' l)id ho exnmino her in arithmetic, English grammar, logic; geography aud tho use of the globes? Of course ho didn't, lie didn't care a cent whether sho knew beans or not. Sho wasn't educated, and yet Adam was there, Ell. Education is a very good thing for girls to have, but you eau't bank on it altogether in winning husbands. Texas Sittings. |