Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1877 — Words to Young People. [ARTICLE]

Words to Young People.

Little girls, do you ever think about tbe meaning of words ? This word now, courtesy, has something about it, which girls add women ought to care fcr very much indeed. You know that hundreds of years ago, in Europe, and in many heathen Countries nov, women are not much better thin slaves. In Cpina, for instance, when company comes to x house, the parents present the boys very proudly, but they send the girls out of sight as far possible. They don’t want anybody to

know that they have littie daughters in thek home. Gradually, in the Middle Ages, woman came up from a state of barbarism, and the clergy and poets together helped her to win fler proper place. The lady of the castle kept the key* ami presided at all the feasts, wore beautiful robes of, stuff called samite and and gave medicine to the sick. She idarned aargery. too, and when ths soldiers and knights came home from battle, wounded and faint, she knew how to set the broken bones and biud up the bruised part. So everybody treated her politely, and the eon of mtpmers which then came to be popular in place of the old roughness And rudeness took the general nau>e of courtesy. The Bible bids us to be tovrtwui. Do you want to know the highest and loveliest style of courtesy, which you can practice at home, at school, and in the street? It is all wrapped up in one golden phrase, “ In honor preftfrihg one afidther.” Suppose you try to live with these words for your motto, say, for a whole week to come.— Sunday StMol Times.