admire With a large number of women, young and old, frivolity and vanity are so evident, we sometimes lose sight of the sterling virtues. I believe the blame is largely due to the wrong treatment children receive at the hands of their elders. What careless remarks are daily uttered in their presence! A little girl's good looks and bright sayings are constantly commented upon in her hearing. A few years of such treatment, and the beautiful exterior is almost ruined by self-consciousness, egotism, and obstinacy. One can not be with her an hour without feeling discomfort caused by her selfishness. There is no better way to teach a child the kindness, tenderness, and seriousness that belong to unselfishness, than to allow her a part in the care of younger children and animals. I once read of a mother so careful lest her child should be cruel that she would not allow a fly to be killed before her, but drove it out of doors instead. What shall we think of the mother who thoughtlessly consigns living spiders or caterpillars to the fire? A judicious friend remarked to me, as we were discussing the subject of household pets, "That cat has often been a trouble, but it has paid for all that trouble a hundred-fold by the gentleness and patience my little daughter has learned to exercise in its care and education." Still another gave me a page from her experience. "I very rarely leave a hired nurse alone with my little children. I hire done my sewing and whatever else I can of my household work. It seems best that the older boys and girls shall divide with me the care and instruction of the younger ones. The arrangement is mutually beneficial." It is needless to say that that home was as delightful a place for a visitor as for the members of the family belonging there.

There is nothing in this world so expensive as sin; so there is no education so practical as that which prevents sin. The

external life must ever be an outgrowth from the heart. My child is taught of God, but I am her counselor, her guide, her truest friend; and whatever I say and do, I would impress upon her young mind this truth, "The King's daughter must be all glorious within."

Kate Brearley Ford

THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE AND.

OF COUNTRY.

BY

THOMAS HILL, D. D., L.L. D.

HE influence of climate and of country, upon the human race, is a wide subject; opening into many subdivisions, and suggesting many allied topics of speculation. That the influence of climate is real, and worthy of consideration, is manifest when we look at the extreme cases. Taking temperature alone into account, we perceive that large portions of the Arctic regions are absolutely uninhabitable. We cannot conceive it even possible, that there

are human beings established south of Cape Horn; and the Esquimaux, at the north, are confined to the sea-coast, unable to penetrate into the interior; since their whole living must be derived from