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us so strong, noble, true as some people have been. We sometimes look 

 back tli rough our tears, and see what a large place a certain character we 

 have known has filled in the lives of all who knew him. A hard-work- 

 ing country doctor may have been, as we look up his record after death, a 

 Sir Philip Sidney, an Admirable Crichton, a Carlo Borromeo. We remem- 

 ber his mirth, his cheerfulness, his courtesy, his wit, his industry, faith- 

 fulness, and unselfishness. We remember how he came into the sick-room 

 at early morning, bringing flowers with the dew on them for his suffer in-- 

 patient, and we follo\v him through the years of his beneficent but unre- 

 corded life, saying, " This wa> ?cr" 



So of many a woman unknown to fame, we remember how bravely she 

 met calamity and shame, brought to her by the man who had sworn to 

 love and to protect. We remember how cheerfully she worked for him 

 and for her children, never losing her faith in human nature, how she was 

 capable of seeing others succeed without envy, how pure her heart, how 

 equable her temper. We remember how she made home happy, and how 

 pretty and agreeable she was, although her mornings were given to music 

 lessons and her afternoons to drudgery. No one would have suspected, as 

 gathered her lambs about her evening wood fire, that she had been 

 keeping the wolf from the door. This was character. 



I we remember the man who all through his life lived under an un- 

 picion to shield a brother or a son. We think of the old man to 

 wlmm came domestic trials of the hardest, yet who never lost his faith. 

 \Ve think of the brilliant woman of society, who stuffs her wounds with 

 and never lets the world see that she bleeds inwardly. She lias 

 Llowed her troubles. She can work for that worthless, that drunken 

 . No one will know that she does it. It is necessary for the other 

 members of her family that she keep up that home in its supposed splen- 

 dour. It is only another sleepless year to her ! What does it matt 

 This is charcu 



as men and women remember that home is tin- anchor of the 

 ill they ! duin- their duty t<> themselves, to their count i\. 



\Ve have n-.t 1 -en able to lay down any definite and unalterable rules. 



!' ri sin ir, of retiring, of taking meals, of dressing, r 

 pnny, and of allowing either gaiety or sobriety to rule the house, this 

 be l'-t't to the sense, taste, and discretion of every householder. 

 tost all p M to the advantages of early ri-ingand 



put and economy and general good manners. It may seem \ 



inonpla, :i allnd-- t" them. It is t< that higher instinct which 



