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Show TWE FASHIONABLE BOARDING SCHOOLS-BEWARE OF THEM, Don't Bend your ch Idren to boarding board-ing schools, city and therefore fashien-nble fashien-nble boarding schools, especially. They are only hot beds of vice. Many a young girl ean trace her downward course in the social scale to these fountain heads of corruption. Among other thiuga lhat they learn, not elowa in the catalogues that papa or mamma see, is to smoke cigarettes and even cigars; they learn how to smuggle correspondence in and out f theso establishments, and become experts ex-perts in deceit and cunning. Though the mndauio who runs the academy may be hydra-head in her vigilance, Bhe cannot expect to be successful in preventing these things, and whtn some fair girl ia discovered derelict iu theso matters, it is glossed over; nothing iB said on either side, for madam can't afford to lose a pupil who is as good as a thousand a year to her uncertain and variable incoma. Once in a wkilo thero is a torrible uproar in ono of these academies; there is an elopement elope-ment or a mysterious disappearance. The "innocent" has skipped the school and her teachers. Madame outwardly is lurious, for she loves a paying pupil, but although outwardly she may rave aud fret and fume, it is Only for effect, for Bhe knows very well that tho mother of that erring and ere long repentant child, and the stern high luucd father will keep quiet, if nut lur her pake, at least for the honor of their tamily. Honor in-deetl. in-deetl. Oh, this devil's chain is a grand affair. No, mothers aud fathers, your public schools, though bad enough, are fcr better than your fashionable fash-ionable boarding schools. N. Y. Letter, Let-ter, Cheyenne Leader. |