Show the belle belie of the ball room as a wife wil emerson remarks somewhere that one of the advantages of growing in old is that things adjust themselves the tiie phrase isa is a happy one as it conveys that after struggling through this valo vale of teals forty or fifty years men and women are resigned to their position that their you youthful ahful aspirations have burnt and ilc dickered lic hered and at last died out they thon then come to believe that they are not fated to be millionaires and they have discovered that they are not geniuses and they settle down into the conviction vic tion that as their thein pilgrimage mago is drawing to a close it is an unnecessary labor to trouble themselves any further about matters which hitherto engrossed so much of their mental ecru scrutiny tilly and worried extensively to wit their accommodations and other temporary arrangements hut above all their feilo folio fellow w travelers but to the young entering upon the arena 0 of f the bat battle battie ti c of ilfe life there is something touching and whimsical in the varied and potent influences which these responsibilities of humanity assume and on no point are they more remarkable than ill in the selection of those who are to journey with them through the coming years the troubles af f childhood and the rainbows that decked tho the sky of that season of brightness havo have passed away and other othen feeling feelings have taken their place one of of tile the most engros engrossing sim is we remark that of matr mair marri mairi marriage lage age for the young 0 of loth b both sexes contemplate this asa as a necessary result of thair new now independence but society as it is now constituted enlarges the many difficulties which have ever appeared to encompass this desir deserea eri erl haven wo mans intuitions in these emergencies serve her better than mans it is therefore with a view to our own sex that we specially write when I 1 was twenty one said a witty woman 1 I had most decided opinions on all conceivable subjects but I 1 have lived to wish there might bo be a law passed that people under twenty five years of ae age 0 should not bo be allowed to express s an opinion because they will surely regret it 11 we have come across the following remarks by a lady oil on the fitness of her sex who aro are belles of tho the ball room to fill tile the position of wives supposing she is over twenty five and conse arrived at those years of dis re tion tiou when she can form a proper opinion we oner them for consideration she contemplates the belle as a feminine article that will not adjust itself to matrimony and coelers in search of a wife vloe must therefore look to crowning lis his its aspirations for a fellow traveler in in some other field which now a really ally aily is the more moco to be envied the man who has adjusted himself contentedly tent edly after his struggle or the mail man who is entering upon the campaign our lady commentator thus speaks for herself we ladies had bad a discussion the other evening and of course it was abou about t marr marriage lae I 1 contended that of all places a ball room was the worst to seek k a wife in only take an in unbiased view or A modern ball room where one sex dresses in sober colors and in such a purely conventional way that the ecat ceat waistcoat and pantaloons of any one man would serve perfectly well for every other of his size while the other sex displays all the colors of the rainbow and every one of the r richer leber toilets an amount of study expense and time that only the initiated can possibly comprehend now itow what does the wise observer understand by such a spectacle simply that one sex is tricked out for sale while the other being buyers carry their attractions in their purses or lin ein in their bank accounts the question of modesty or immodesty is idle enough so also is is that of or morality for whatever is is the tho general custom will always be moral in the eyes of the majo mijo majority rity the veiled lady who would expose her whole person sooner than her face is as modest and in oriental eyes infinitely more so than the wester western n belle even though she expose no charms but those of her face X clearly then these juno arms arins and busts must enter into the competition for the greatest catch of tile the season but are these busts and arms all a man looks for in a wife Is lie he apt to tb find what will make his home a happy one in a woman who thinks only of fascinato fas fascinating cinat liim 1115 with busts and arms I 1 need nee not answer the question 11 exchange |