One Of The Pathetic Incidents

"Wby : it thal in most hO'usehoOds the ditomei" table beeoïnes a drunimíng gr-cxrod for the Wholesale plaints oí members ? ProbaKy becanse ubis is tibe oinly msal o( ulue diay when the emitiré iamlly meet togetiber, and eacü ome feeOs it a üuty to airl a lew personal grievamees in order i seek consojatioQ frwm tbe others. Out of diefense to dilgestioo, il lor ao otiher reason, üdlnnei'-ta'Ke conversatiioui eh'Oul'd be of tihö spiciest, but tli'iis íact is lost silgltit oí ini thO general diesi're O'í everybody, ítotQ papa dicnvai to the youngstere, to serTe up nly -tibase topics wliich. nave ma'rred ratiher thaia madle the day's uappv ■mess. Hordijy h.as the man o)f the house finiábed hiis carving dmtles befare he faUs into ain animated íkiancial discussiian witüi, üíis wife. Househoiú expeínses are reliashed, biüls grumbled oTer, and tibe cost of iwing: I Itiíted wlth, tediious regulartty. Motlher, in her turn, eagerlty pooirs tnto aiiy Jisteniiig ear her domestic avcl'.s. Tbe day's errors bellow staü's aro emito,öiïtly reciovded. She shghB over Bi'iJge't's butter waste, declares tíliíat t lie butcher's imllifíereiiice to luer order is b?coaniing toboüeratole, amd so on. Thiein tliie small boy (paar lilttle j ge íor íannily flaw-piic.kilag) eomesl in íor hils sluaire of criiticism. His íailures a)b scbíool are relentlessly raked up, and a'.l sorfcs of pumLs'toneiHs tlïrealteued uness there Jjs epeedy reform. If "Bhere are guests present tliSis tojk of tibe inmer circle te, tor coairtesy's sake, gtven a ess personal flavo r, but only t'heii. "G-ood ebeer i amd pieaity of it" is not tibe motto oí I