The Power Of Little Things

Daintiness in trifles Í8 very attractive. A gift that is wrapped in good paper and tied with a pretty ribbon, for instance, looks twice as tempting as the sanie present carelessly given. Every one knows how a table may be made refined or otherwise by the mere setting of the china, glass and cutlery and how the touch of the mistress' hand will convert the clumsy disposition of an inexiperienced servant into an arrangement of beauty and order. The same room with the same furniture may iook as widely different as the desert of Sahara and the garden of Eden, according to the taste shown by its occupant. This power of little things cannot be overestimated, and it is not only in things inanimate, but in words and deeds, that this most desirable quality of taste may be manifested. A kind action niay be made graceful, a generous gift may be bestowed tactfully, by force of what might be deemed a trifle, but which 8ometimes is of the greatest importance. On the other hand, a careless, negleetf ui manner will almost rob a kindness of the pleasure it was intended to bestow and render it absolutely distasteful to the