Their White Cross obligation might screw up their moral courage to utter some such pointed rebuke as Dr.Jowett's to a lot of young men in a smoking-room, "I don't want to make myself out better than you are, but is there not more dirt than wit in that story ?" or that other still more public rebuke which he administered at his own dinner-table when, the gentlemen having been left to their wine, a well-known diplomat began telling some very unsavory stories, till the still, small, high-pitched voice of the Master made itself heard, saying, "Had we not better adjourn this conversation till we join the ladies in the drawing-room ?" At least they can keep silence and a grave face; and silence and a grave face are often the best damper to coarse wit.

Why, I ask, should men when they get together be one whit coarser than women?
It is simply an evil fashion, and as an evil fashion can and will be put down as "bad form." I think also that joining the White Cross will make young men more active in trying to influence other young men and to guard and help their younger brothers, with all the other priceless work that they can, if they will, do for our womanhood among men, but which, from shyness and reserve and the dread of being looked upon as moral prigs, they are apt to let go by default.
But whether you agree with me or not with regard to your sons' joining an organization, see that they assume their rightful attitude of guardians of the purity of the home.

We women cannot know anything about the inner secrets of men's lives, or know whom to exclude and whom to admit to the society of our girls.

This ought to be the part of the brothers.

God knows we do not want to make a pariah class of men on the same lines as are meted out to women.