music, or the art of pho-tography, or the growing of flowers, or skiing on the snow, or the other things you have mentioned. A girl's civilization can consist only in lofty character, broad understand-ing, and the inner qualities of the person."

Yes, you may raise this objection, and all the truth is in what you say. But what we intended in this article was to call attention to the fact that lofty character, broad understanding, and the other qualities must needs be reflected in a person's con-duct, in her works, and in the manner in which she spends

her time. Civilization is not a fanciful, verbal condition, but a condition of living, which we recognize by the outward signs it casts upon society.

Accordingly, then, the girl who takes up the pursuits we have set out above is more civilized than the one whose body the warmth of the sun and the waves of the sea never play upon, whose soul the blossoms of the meadow never delight, who takes no exercise in the arms of nature, has no taste for the arts, and opens no windows of her mind and heart upon the lights of science and knowledge.