line always showing where the right use of a blessing ends, and the abuse of it begins. Let us just touch again upon some of these four advantages, and let me give you a few practical thoughts concerning them.

First, about your freedom to come and go between the hours of business, or after they are

over.

It is very nice to be able to run out and stretch your limbs, and breathe the fresh air-to make a little call upon your friends, or procure for yourself some little indulgence. The danger is, that these opportunities occur at the very time when it is scarcely safe for you to use them—at night.

If I was obliged to send my little daughter abroad without protection at night, I would choose for her path the most crowded thoroughfares. I should say, "in the quiet lonely places she is more likely to meet with insult than with a crowd," and yet how my heart would ache while she was away. I know the sights that would meet her

eyes, and the sounds that would enter her ears, and I should feel she was in danger.

I know quite well that a girl may go to and fro in the public streets, and yet be true to herself and her feminine refinement and modesty. But such cases are rare. We soon get used to sights as well as sounds. That which would shock and distress us greatly the first time we saw it, would have no effect upon us if we looked upon it every day for a month. It is so easy to go from seeing others do it, to doing it one's self. We can scarcely hope that when constantly coming in contact with those who think no harm of wild and lawless behaviour, and bold and reckless language, we shall preserve our maidenly modesty and retiring manners without damage or soil.

Let me ask you then to be very careful of making use of the public streets for the purpose of recreation at any time, especially in the evening. We cannot be too circumspect when our business leads

us there, and we can scarcely be led there too

see so much of the fashionable that it is very difficult to confine your taste to what is simple, becoming, and ladylike. If only young girls knew that whatever comeliness they may possess is disguised, not embellished, by finery! I believe it is a duty to look as tidy as we can, just as it is a duty to speak as kindly as we can, and a careless, slovenly appearance is a spoiled appearance. You are quite justified in studying the colours that best harmonise with your complexion, and the style most becoming to your figure. There should be perfect harmony throughout your whole appearance. Yes, harmony! A blending of all-nothing standing out marked and conspicuous, but the dress as a whole affecting the beholders-a complete attire. You have all, doubtless, heard the well-known description of a woman perfectly dressed-" She was so well and tastefully attired, that I cannot tell you a thing she had on."

I think it is a bad thing for our general ap

pearance that our mirrors do not

see the whole of ourselves at once.

allow us to

How can we

get an idea of the effect of the whole when we look only at parts at a time. It is not everything which suits the face which suits our height and breadth. We should remember this.

But, as we said before, you may be restricted as to dress while you are at work. I believe this is a general rule. But then, this restriction need not lead you to launch forth at other times, to load your bodies with ornaments, to put on all your little embellishments at once. Be discreet and modest. Remember dress should really screen you from notice, and not drag you into it.

"Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning, as the plaiting of hair, the wearing of gold, and the putting on of apparel.

"But let it be the hidden man of the heart, which in the sight of God is of great price."