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THE BUBAL WEW-YOBKEB. 
true representatives of these two classes of 
whom you have heard. 
I have never known an instance in which 
either was the least bit insincere. I can go to 
either with perfect assurance of obtaining an 
earnest, honest opinion. Yet I know of no 
two good people so totally unlike in the ex¬ 
pression of those opinions. One is, I might 
almost say, the personification of gentleness, 
yet just as firm and decided in her truth and 
candor as my other friend, who will tell me 
in the fewest words possible, it seems, exactly 
what she thinks. I could mention a number 
of instances in which these two persons have 
been asked what we call “ embarrassing ques¬ 
tions,” or placed in trying,delicate positions; 
the answer or the action was invariably genu¬ 
ine truth itself. It seems a very easy thing to 
be true and honest, but is it? Judging from 
the vast majority of people, who, if not dis¬ 
honest are insincere, it would appear not. 
It is a fact to be deplored. It should not be 
so. In my little experience I have not found 
it a hard matter to teach children, as a rule, 
to be truthful. I say as a rule, for heredity 
is a force—a power that sometimes cannot be 
overcome. 
Take children of all cla«ses and conditions, 
from the highest to the lowest, from the rich¬ 
est to the poorest, get a hold on them, trust 
them, let them feel that they are relied upon, 
and properly directed, it will not be long be¬ 
fore positive lies give place to certain truth. 
It is a notable fact that children of wealthy^ 
“ society people ” are more apt to equivocate 
and are more difficult to break of the habit, 
than the children of poverty, or of the mid¬ 
dle class. Is it to be wondered at when there 
mammas deliberately send a servant to the 
door to say: “ Not at home? ” Those same 
children, perhaps, would think it dreadful to 
tell a lie. The would-be politeness of their 
parents seems to them entirely proper, and 
they are often taught just such untruthful 
things, as being mere necessary convention¬ 
alities. 
If it be true then, that children are natur¬ 
ally honest, it follows that insincerity( equiv¬ 
ocation, dishonesty, untruthfulness, call it 
what you will) is developed in mature years. 
The prophet Jeremiah says: “The heart is 
deceitful above, etc., who can know it?” Is 
not the whole matter summed up in these few 
words of Shakespeare? 
“ To thine ownself bo true; and it mu«t fol¬ 
low as the night the dav, thou canst not 
then be false to any man.” 
“ Whatsoever things are just.” We may 
be true, we may be honest, but it is much 
more difficult to be just. We all believe, or 
want to believe, that Gcd is a just God. 
Where do we find another embodiment of 
justice? 
We know many who want to be just, but 
are they? 
We know that we want|to be just, but are 
we? 
Who is to decide? 
In that,as in many other things, we can only 
do “according to our light.” 
ABOUT DINING. 
T HERE is one place where I visit that I 
always leave with regret mingled with 
a keen serse of anticipation—regret that I 
must go.aud anticipation of the next time I’m 
to spend ’neath that cottage roof. My friends 
are not wealthy.though in good circumstanc¬ 
es, yet one comes away with the feeling that 
everything in that house is perfect. The sense 
of “home” pervades the whole place There, 
little “dinners” or “teas” are always a suc¬ 
cess,and I’ve found out some of the things that 
make them so, and will tell them to you. 
First of all, see that the table linen (it need 
not be the finest damask) is spotless and fresh; 
that the china, glass, silver and cutlery are 
bright and untarnished. Arrange the dishes 
gracefully: do not place them at equal distanc¬ 
es from the ends or sides of the table—nor in 
exactly right-angular positions, but put them 
where they will look most inviting. A pretty 
table scarf embroidered in some vine-like pat¬ 
tern thrown across the table diagonally from 
one corner to another, adds wonderfully to 
the brightening of the board. Always 
have Howtrs if possible somowhere on the 
table. Those of you living in the country 
can always have these during the summer 
time, at any rate. A great bunch of clovers 
and grasses makes a lovely decoration; or a 
vase of dark maiden hair fern, smelling of 
the woods, will bring a sense of coolness that 
is delightful. 
Have enough dishes, but a profusion of 
them is as bad as a scarcity. 
Care should be exercised in selecting your 
guests. They should, if possible, be all sensi¬ 
ble, social, and unaffected, else they will not 
contribute greatly to the pleasantness of the 
entertainment, and it will be likely to appear 
formal and stilted. Cfiro sUould also be ex¬ 
ercised in placing the guests at the table. 
The great point is to pair amiable, pleasant 
and agreeable people.. Arguments should not 
be tolerated at the table, as they destroy the 
appetite and spoil the digestion to say noth¬ 
ing about ruffling the temper. Never invite 
anyone to dine simply because he is rich; 
never invite people who have not the instinct 
of gentlemen and gentlewomen—they may 
have such instinct even though occupying 
humble positions. 
Do not hasten through the meal as though 
you were at a rail-road depot and had just 
“10 minutes for refreshments.” Good talkers 
are a great acquisition at a dinner, but so also 
are good listeners. I shall not ta’k about 
the different courses, as I know that very 
many farmers and their wives, who read thts, 
cannot so arrange matters as to permit having 
their dinners so served, but the other hints I 
have given can be followed by them as well 
as by any one eUe. 
A prettily arranged table gives one an ap¬ 
petite. Always have a salad at dinner. There 
are many kinds that are easily supplied, but 
lettuce is a stand-by. Lettuce served with 
water-cresses is a dainty and toothsome finish 
to a dinner. Garnish your meats with some¬ 
thing green—water-cresses or parsley will do 
nicely. 
To do these little things, I know, may seem 
useless to a poor, tired housewife and mother 
who has to get up in the morning at five 
o’clock (perhaps before , so that the men may 
have breakfast in time to go to the fields, or 
do the milking, or go to market, but if she 
cannot follow my suggestions every day in 
the week, let her try to have her Sunday din¬ 
ner so bright and cheery that it will be some¬ 
thing to look back on during the week, and 
something to look forward to also. Care 
about dining does more to refine the bovs 
than all the lecturing one can give. Then, 
too, if the children are brought up with care 
in regard to their table manners they are 
never afraid of making blunders when they 
go to see their “ city cousins,” and will not be 
dreaded by said city cousins as that much 
laughed-at terror—the “ country cousin.” 
DOHA HARVEY VROOMAN. 
ON TIME. 
T AST summer I spent a part of my vaca- 
J tion at a little city not far from home, 
and when the time for my departure dr«=w 
npar, I asked the man of the house at what 
time the train would leave. “At precisely 
5:30. It never leaves at 5:20, or 5:31, but 
alxoays at 5:30. If you are there one minute 
before, you will be in time; if you are there 
one minute after, you will find the cars gone 
—if that is not an Hibernianism to find what 
is not there.” Now, it seems to me that peo¬ 
ple employed in other business should know 
as much as those connected with the railway; 
at least, they should be as careful to be on 
time. But what a woful neglect of punctu¬ 
ality do we meet every day of our lives! Peo¬ 
ple are shockingly off time ; but whether it 
results from carelessness, thoughtlessness or 
indifference, the sins, both of omission and 
commission, are there and should be corrected 
and at once, the sooner the better, for the 
more a person allows himself to be off time, 
the harder he will find it to be on time when 
it is a necessity. 
I know, for I have found it to be so mvself. 
As we live at a distance of about five minutes' 
walk from the academy, very often I would 
not start for school until five minutes before 
it opened, and just as often as not l would be 
a minute or so late—only a minute, but just 
enough behind time to give me a tardy mark, 
and the way those tardy marks counted up 
when the records came in was something 
frightful. At any rate they frightened me, 
and I resolved to make one grand effort to 
have a record that said “on time” the next 
month. And I did, and for all the months 
thereafter. Common sense—poor abused 
term !—should teach people to keep their ap¬ 
pointments and to keep them on time. 
Borne people do not seem to consider that 
others’ time may be valuable if theirs is not, 
and that much inconvenience and trouble 
may occur because of their failure to keep an 
appointment promptly on time. People ask 
us to meet them at a certain place and at a 
certain hour and we do so. Perhaps half or 
three-quarters of an hour after the time 
agreed upon,they may make their appearance. 
Do these laggards even stop to think that the 
time may have passed very slowly to us; that 
we might be better employed than waiting, 
waiting, waiting! 
Friends promise to visit us, and say they 
will come on a certain train. JVe go to the 
station to meet them; the cars arrive, but 
they do not, aud it is with a feeliug of disao- 
pointment that we return home. And ordi¬ 
narily, there is no exouse forjtheir,non*ap* 
pearance but their own' carelessness; they 
missed the train by being a few minutes too 
late. Well, they should have borne in mind 
the fact that “time, tide and railway cars 
wait for no man.” 
Money is due which is promised to be paid 
on a certain date; but the date passes and the 
money comes not. Do these delinquents ever 
think of the dishonorable nature of this trans¬ 
action? Do they realize how much may be 
depending on the receipt of the promised 
sum? Of course, there are occasions when it 
becomes impossible to fulfill a money promise, 
and in such cases, a full and perfectly truth¬ 
ful explanation should bo given, and if such 
explanation be wanting, the delinquent may 
be safely written down—a scamp. 
A person can gain a splendid business repu¬ 
tation by being always on time. Business 
people require and need punctuality, and 
when they find that their employes are lack¬ 
ing in promptness, that they do not value 
their employers’ time] and their own 'situa¬ 
tions enough to make a proper effort to re¬ 
tain them, they are dismissed and others are 
found to fill their places, and the popular 
verdict will be “ served them right ” 
I believe success will crown our efforts, if we 
will only be on time. “Delays are danger¬ 
ous ” in four cases out of five. If we traced 
the careers of our successful business men, I 
think we would find the most successful to be 
those who have been always punctual, always 
on hand when there was any chance of bet¬ 
tering their position, always on the lookout 
for their employers’ benefit, regarding the 
hours for which they were paid for their ser¬ 
vices as their employers’, not their own, and 
consequently, always on time. 
Do you ask, “Are you always on time?” 
Oh, I’m not a ram. avis ; and, besides, don’t 
you know some things are a great deal easier 
to preach than to practice? 
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