Detraction

Tt. is a good rule not to believe anything uufavorable to the character of a person upou mere hearsay ; and to turn a í(íaf ear lo al' gossip. Many a good ::hracter is often temporanly injured by ietraotion, asit passes t'rum the mouth of 3U8 goesip to another. A still greater misebief is often done by those who have reoeived the hospitality of a fami ■ [y, and witnessed the failings of some ane or more of lts members, whieb. cf themsulvea may be quito hartnleas, but Ddirig ex iggerar.ed, are represented ata -vrious outrage of conduct. This class of visitois is more dangerous than highway robbers, for vvhilethe lsltsronly tal e your moriey, the foriutr robs jou of your good name, whiuh acoording to Shakespeare and other good authorities, is far worse. . It is seldom advisable for any one to undertake to contradict scandal ; for most good eharacters.are atile to outlive it., or to bear it without harm ; but it should be a part of a sound education, certainly of a polite one, to consider the ruod character of every one, aud parlioularly the home eharacter, as somt'thing Bacred. A really worthy person can feel notbing but pain at the want of virtue or goounessin any one, and will be much more ready te conceal tho faults of others than to make them public. In fact society needs far inore Christian gentlemen and ladies - those who are ever ready to observe the golden rule.