Many another fellow, as shrewd and more reckless, has flung out passionately at what he construed into an insult, and made it the ostensible excuse for resorting to places where the motto that "anything will do for the boys," is unknown in practice.
An English woman once commented to me upon the difference between our manner of lodging and treating our sons and that which obtains in her native land.

"We behave to our boys as if they were princes of the blood," she said, in her soft, sweet voice.

"American girls are young princesses at home and in society, and grace the position rarely well.
But--excuse me for speaking frankly--their brothers are sometimes lodged like grooms." She was so far from wrong that I could not be displeased at the blunt criticism.

The just mean between the stations thus specified is equality, and the firm maintenance of the same by the parents.

Manners and environment are apt to harmonize.