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condemn the woman , who too often saeniiees even against her truer heart and better jnj"ment the happiness of a whole life—] , ev own " beau ideal" of what she most considers pleasantness and peace , because she is overborne hy the sordid aims of

frieuds , or influenced by the overbearing presence of strong-minded parents . On the other hand I do not want to take a too morbid view of things in any respect . Very often the friends who so kindlinterfereand " stern parients " of

y , many a little domestic drama , or comedy or screeching farce , are right altogether , and the young people are utterly and entirely wrong ! If Laura had married her dear , dear Euperfwhat a " fiasco " she would have

, made of it . He aud she had not a single taste in common , and nothing ever could have made them in any sense fitting companions for each other . If Harry had been united to his darling Blanchewhat a mess he would have made

, of it . They would have quarrelled like cat and dog in a fortnight , and ere long have found their way wibheut doubt into the Divorce Court .

It is difficult to preach to the young and inexperienced , or to impress them either wilh the folly of loving , or the injudiciousness of matrimony . They don ' t believe you , and they won ' t . They have got , somehow or other , truly or falsely never minda golden dream of their own

, , and they cannot and will not thank you who wake them up out of it . Still as youug people will fall in love , as Jimmy and Dora , as Tommy and Sophy , will make geese of themselves , every now and then , friends are compelled to

intervene and point out to them , that they nave made a blunder and taken a "faux pas . " So I believe that on the principle of compensation aud equilibrium , things after all are pretty much on the square , and certainl

y are all for the best here . We none of us cau forecast the future , Mid instead of sitting down and repining "ke children who have broken their toys , 'when we are ourselves disappointed and cannot get all that we want , let us with a heart for every fate , " firmly believe that after all is said and done , a wise Providence , Wiser than we are by a very long way ,

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still overhauls and controls and unravels the twisted skeins of that confused warp which measures out the span of mortals .

Social Problems And Their Peaceful Solution.

SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR PEACEFUL SOLUTION .

BY BRO . REV . W . TEBBS . VI . —OUR FOOD-SUPPLY . " He giveth food to all flesh . . . But . . . the slothful man roasteth

Not That which he took in hunting . " "SOME eat to live , some live to eat , " is trite and true— truer still , alas , that some do neither ! Why ? We will not stay to discuss the reason

of those melancholy cases of absolute starvation that ever and again come under our notice , some of which arise from the apathy of the neglected pauper ' s surroundings , and yet more from the starved one ' s self-respect or indomitable pride ; nor will

we stay to grieve over the terrible fact that we have elsewhere noticed , that this miserable poverty is in too many cases brought about by the bread-winner ' s intemperate habits ; but , having already seen that certainly one cause of this fearful

curse is the want of a sufficiency of wholesome and palatable food , we will pass at once to the consideration of how this may be , at all events to some extent , mitigated by discussing , and let us hope finding a reply and thence a remedy forone of the

, most important social questions of the day , '' how it is that with such vast resources at her command , England ' s people are so badly fed ?" The first reason is that they stand so thick upon the groundand that so much

, of it as is still left uncovered by the manufacturer ' s brick and mortar factories , will not produce sufficient food for the support of the manufacturer ' s flesh and blood

machinery . The sscond reason is that through every class of society , iu the use of every necessary of life , equally as in that of life itself , there is enormous , although preventable waste . The third reason is that although there