A Handful Of Laconics

To be a good listener is to as great an art as to be a good talker. The girl who is the confidante of her father makes, in nine cases out of ten, the best kind of a wife. A pretty girl, with notliing but her fairness to offer, invariably attracts men. But she seldom holds them. It is singular and yet a fact that the virtues we are most loath to believe possessed by others are those we are incapable of ourselves. It is a habit with some people wheu they wish their virtues to look the whitest, always to use tlie faults of others as a background. The lover, women complain, does not always survive in the husband. But is it not equally true that the sweetheart does not always survive in the wife ? -