HE YOUNG.
The problem of age and youth in the family has always been a dificult one, and inevitably, in accentuated in these days, when changes more rapid and more pro- found take place in a few years than formarly took place în "a century. It was in days that were not pre-minently days of rapid change, that a sardonic elder delivered himself of the dictum, that We are none of us infallible, not even the youngest." In every age it is slowly and with difficulty that the younger geh- eration with something of surprise learns the lesson that "We are no better than our fathers.".
Parents to-day need a double measure of wisdom and sympathy if they are to deal rightly with their children (writes the Very Rev. W.S. Swayne, Dean of Man- chester, in the London Daily- Nes). There are certain tried and affirmed principles which come to us from the past which they will do well to bear in mind. There is profound wisdom, för instance, in the first word of the Fifth Commandment-Honour.* Children who have not been taught to honour their parents will soon cease to love them. Re- verence and love are near akin to dhe another. It is unhappily true that "children who are on terms of insolent familarity with their parents, soon grow weary of them, and wish them out of of the way." If it be true that
the greatest reverence is due to children, it is also true that there is a reverence due to age and parenthood which should be raught.
Parents also will do well to remember that children who are brought up in affuent homes. seldom do as well in life as those brought up in homes where the necessity of economy and effort have always been obvious. The large part played in the world by sons of the manse" and by children from cultured-but-poor homes, especially in Scotland, is probably an example of this. It is not wise in any class of society to encourage children to think that they have a natural righ to whatever they may desire.
If there are lesson's trom the past which are still valid, there are new conditions which wise parents will recognise "and take into account. The daughters, especially of well-to-do homes, are to-day a continual perplexity
to their mothers. They are no longer content with the ordinary round of somewhat vapid social duties and amüsements. They resent the idea that they must, sit at home, and wait to be married. They are eager to be up and doing, and to be of some real service in their generat- ion, and their mother watches their efforts with somewhat the same painful perplexity with which a hen watches her duck- lings, which she has hatched out, taking to a pond. Mothers will do well to recognise that their daughters' ambitions are generous and legitimate, and are the natur- at consequence of a larger and freer education.
Religiously-minded
parents
have their own perplexities, and are often pained by the apparent lack of religions instincts on the part of their children. They do not always remember that the higher part of our nature devlops most slowly; the body reaches perfection first, the intellect con- tinues to develop long after the body has reached its greatest perfection, and in many of us spiritual development is yet more slow, and there is great dsager in trying to force or quicken & growth which must proceed in accordance with its own laws. Moreover, the young men and women of to-day have been born into a world which is slowly finding its way to a new religious synthesis, and a new basis for belief. They are naturally more sensitive to the new conditions than their parents, and often seem to their elders to be destitute of religious sanse, when they STO only painfully finding their way to a religious outlook on life which shall satisfy at once therr conscience and their un- derstandi
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THE PEACE QUESTION.
Paris, June 17. President Wilson was de guest on Thursday evening at a dinner given by President Poincare at Elysee, being the first official celebration of the signing of peace. All the delegates of the Allied nations were present M. Poincare in proposing the toast of President Wilson said France would never forget the collaberation of America on the battlefields and the elaboration of humanity's new charter. Henceforth friendship between America and France would be of a more intimate and sacred character. President... Wilson, replying, said the wrong done by Germany waging the war was a great wrong but it warned the world that they should band themselves together in order that such a wrong should never be perpetrated again.' It was a warni ing to all other nations that would do like things. They would be vanquished and shained.
Peace and victory celebrations are to take place through- oat France on July 14 Official preparations are being made on a vast scale.
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Berlin, June 24.
The Government has issued a proclamation to tas German people stating "The first requirement is the full- ment of Treaty obligations, the second work and the thiru faithfulness to duty. The only way out of the darkness of this Treaty is the preservation of the Empire and nation by unity and work"
Berlin, Jane 25."
In rowdy midnight demonstrations arising from the acceptance of the Peace Treaty the mob assaulted and. robbed" pedestrians and maltreated so.diers. There was repeated ring from the roofs. Soldiers cleared the Alexander Platz. Bands of robbers plundered shops near Stettin rail station and attacked armving travellers. They held up tramcars and deprived passengers of their pocket books, and took off rings from the women's fingers. Later 4,000 workmen in the Gruenewald railway workshops struck. Troops are protecting the railstations,
Paris, June 25. Marshal Petain and several French Generals will attend
a ceremony at Versailles. It is suggested that one French soldier should be present among the plenipotentiaries of the Allied nations."
Versailles, June, 28.
It is believed that the new German Prace délegation will consist of Herren Mueller, Gisberts and Leinert.
Paris, June 28.
The ceremony at Versailles will be simple. No specch and no incident of any importance is expected, in spite of the fact that the Chinese delegates have made known their intention to sign only with reserves concerning the cession of Kiauchan to Japan Signature of the Treaty will by no means lift the blockade or free German prisoners now in Allied hands. These matters can only be considered when: the Treaty has been ratified by the German Parliament and the Allies-
The Supreme Council has decided that the Austrian debt must be shared by the nations which formed Part of the Empire, therefore Italy is to pay a share of this debt
To-day in Paris there is a big holiday Cafes will remain open till one m'the morning
It is probable that the Treaty of Alliance pledging the United States to come to the aid of France should. Germany make another provoked attack may be signed by President Wilson to day. If it i
Mr. Lansing, will dig Ister:- The Tresty will remain in force- until, France.
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THE RUSSIAN FIGHTING.
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