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destroy it as it were before-hand. We learn 
by experience how not to do it. 
WHETHER IT RAYS. 
D II) you notice what Miss Dana says 
about doing one thing at a time ? She 
is right; it doesn’t pay to do more than our 
streugth can bear, especially when it is un¬ 
necessary. A great deal of harm is done by 
ambitious girls who are bent on utilizing 
every moment in some way. The idea of try¬ 
ing to study, for example, when the body is 
completely tired out! Certainly it does not 
pay. Change of occupations certainly rests 
one, but, all the same, one cannot really study 
profitably when one is tired out. 
Fancy-work is one of our greatest re¬ 
laxations; certainly the needle is one of the 
greatest blessings we women possess. But, all 
the same,a good deal of it does not really pay. 
Take, for example, much of the crocheted 
edging one sees. It is terribly trying to the 
eyes especially by lamp-light—yet many 
girls spend their evenings entirely in this 
work. It does not really cost much, if any, 
less than bought trimming;—taking into ac¬ 
count the wear and tear on one’s eyes it costs 
more. Of course, there is the pleasure of 
making, but, after all, does it pay? 
Perpetual practice on the piano when a girl 
has no actual taste for music—does that pay? 
I don’t think it does. There ought to be 
music in every household, if possible, but, all 
the same, there is a great deal of valuable time 
wasted in music by girls whose taste lies in 
other directions, merely because it is the cus¬ 
tom. As tar as social qualities go, a girl who 
can talk pleasantly and sympathetically will 
always attract far more than one whose culti¬ 
vation is musical, and nothing else. 
PATTY CARTON. 
SMOKING IN PRIVATE. 
S MOKING in public is bad enough, but 
it is a question whether or not it results 
in as much personal injury and inconvenience 
to those who dislike smoking as the habit of 
smoking at home. In public we can get away 
from those who are obnoxious to us, but in 
private it is sometimes almost impossible. 
I sometimes think chronic smokers take a 
fiendish sort of delight in tormenting those 
who do not smoke. How often when visiting 
at the house of our friends is our whole even¬ 
ing’s enjoyment spoiled by the after-dinner 
cigar! If we adjourn to the piazza or take a 
stroll about the grounds the master of the 
house insists upon the omnipresent cigar. If 
we go riding the host drives, sits upon the 
front seat and the tobacco smoke is wafted 
back into our faces. If a private rowing or 
sailing party is proposed, the so called gentle¬ 
men must load up with cigars or cigarettes. 
Ou every side—every where--we come in close 
contact with the poisonous vapor. 
Who can tell how many headaches have 
been caused, how many delicate lives sacri¬ 
ficed by this deadly nicotine? How horrible 
the fate of a delicate and sensitive woman who 
is tied for life to a habitual smoker. Few 
men are drunk on liquors or beer all the time, 
while many men are dull aud stupid, narco¬ 
tized all the time. Respect for a man’s fam¬ 
ily ought to induce him to abandon the dis¬ 
gusting habit even if he cared nothing for the 
comfort or welfare of the public. 
In the matter of smoking there is a linger¬ 
ing relic of the homage « hich men formerly 
paid to women. Almost any man, who 
makes any professions of being a gentleman, 
w 11 ask ladies if smoking is objectionable to 
them before lighting a pipe or cigar in their 
presence. W ho ever beard of one man asking 
another if ho objected to smoking? It is, 
however, a fact that some men suffer greatly 
from inhaling tobacco smoke; as a rule, they 
suffer in silence for fear of hurting the feel¬ 
ings of the smoker or of being called a crank. 
To sum the matter up, I would make a new 
aud imperative rule of etiquette, that no man 
should smoke in the presence of other men 
who are not smoking , or in the presence of 
ladies or children. j. h. g. 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
rpHE REV. F. D. KELSEY concludes a 
JL pleasing sketch of a Chinaman who 
was helped by a lady and who returned her 
kindness by making her a handsome and 
costly present by saying that we must carry 
to the needy Christ’s gospel of the loaves aud 
fishes—the gospel of bread aud cordwood aud 
coats—until men realize that religion is more 
than a formulary, creed or ritual. 
Flaval says that when God intends to fill 
a soul, he first makes it empty; when he in¬ 
tends to enrich a soul, he first^piakesj Jt.jpopr; 
when he intends to exalt a soul,he first makes 
it humble; when he intends to save a soul, he 
first makes it sensible of its own miseries, 
wan ts and nothingn ess. 
Talmage says that if you want to have a 
stalwart Christian character plant it right 
out-of-doors in the great field of Christian 
usefulness, and though the hot sun of trial 
may try to consume it, it will thrive until it 
becomes a great tree, in which the fowls of 
heaven may have their habitation. 
Sir Henry Taylor says a secret may be 
sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of 
its being a secret. It is not many years since 
a State secret of the greatest importance was 
printed without being divulged, merely by 
sending it to the press like any other matter, 
and trusting to the mechanical habits of the 
persons employed for their printing the docu¬ 
ment without knowing wbat subject it re¬ 
lated to. 
Good nature disarms enmity, allays irrita¬ 
tion, stops eveu the garrulity of fault-finding. 
It more than half overcomes envy. A really 
good-natured man is the most troublesome 
morsel that the malign passions ever attempt¬ 
ed to feed upon. He is the natural superior 
of irritable persons . 
Robertson says that what the world calls 
virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. 
The foundation of all human excellence must 
be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer’s 
cross, and in the power of his resurrection.... 
Uncle Esek says in the Century “I have 
hearn of men wno knew more than they could 
tell, but I never have met one. If a man has 
a genuine idea, he can make himself under¬ 
stood.”. 
“ Faith won’t enable a man to lift a ton all 
at once, but it will, ten pounds at a time.”... 
“ You may travel a good ways on whisky, 
and travel fast while you are going, but you 
can’t get back when you want to.”. 
Longfellow says “ Ah, how wonderful 
is the advent of the spring! the great annual 
miracle of the blossomiug of Aaron’s rod, re¬ 
peated on myriads and myriads of branches! 
the gentle progression and growth of herbs, 
flowers, trees, gentle, and yet irrepressible, 
which no force can stay, do violence restrain, 
like love that wins its way and cannot be 
withstood by any human power because it¬ 
self is divine power.”. 
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