Oxford Democrat

CONTACT WITH THE WORLD.-It is by coming in contact with people that we improve: we must see life as it really is. We cannot concur in the opinion that young children ought to see only that which is pure and good. They must meet the world as it is, and meet it when young. They must have the opportunity to compare. Comparison is a great power in the formation of character. A young lady that has seen nothing of real life and only knows what she has heard and read, is greatly astonished when she meets the distinguished men and women of any country. They are not equal to her standard. Young people may be made better by contact with that which is not so good. Instead of falling themselves, they should try to make the bad good. To be thrown in early life among all classes and conditions of people ought to be esteemed an advantage rather than a misfortune. The people from whom we can obtain the most sensible, the truest and wisest views of life are found among those who struggle for an existence. No one can truly understand life unless he has suffered. A truly wise mother might justly be distressed if her child never knew grief. [Mrs. Banks.