Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1851-08-14
VOLUME ". NUnBER ~.

In your benevolence and generosity
you seem to find it 80. Many people do
not hesitate on the score Of others feelings
But there's one thing you have not cata-
lOgued | saw that myself Don't YOU
remember when | met you at Ornes, Mrs
Green came up at the same minute p
Now | know you do not like her and new
er intend to visit her Yet when she Law
ished her compliments at parting,and said
/ Do come aud see me before | go out of
town. you answered, Thank you, viii
Did IL o indeed. | did not intend
it, for L am usually very particular about
that. | always say, Thank YOU in such
cases simply. Sister taught me that
Once, when l was little girl, who urged
her to pay long country visitand to my
wonder, Mary only answered Thank you.
As soon as we were got out Of hearing,
L told her | did not think she had been
very polite, for mamma always added, l
should be pleased to- But | shouldn't
be pleased, Mary said. for it's very stu
pid indeed there [ have always been told
[ thanked her for her kindness, which was
quite sufficient
Mary is a sensible woman. have al
ways liked her frank, open nature. And
yet her frankness never gives pain. 1t
never forces disagreeable things before
you unnecessarily"
Like Mrs Green one reason [ don t
visit her She met Susie. the ether day
and exclaimed, ooh how wretchedly you
are looking. But I see now, you have
taken off your black it's a great pity it
was so becoming You viii never look so
well again She prides herself a great deal
upon her sincerity"
That is very unlike our Mary, and as
an extreme, is quite as disagrceable as
Mrs lie Grands fattery. [ believe she
used to collect all the compliments paid
to herself, and hand them over to you sec
ond hand She would tell You how sweet
ly you were looking, when as pale as a
ghost, and praise everything you woTe, if
YOU were to be arrayed in the most unbe-
coming costume that could be invented.
Suppose we take Mary for pattern, in
stead of either of these good ladies'"
But do you think, Henry, one can ev-
er be perfectly sincere 2"
You did not doubt it last evening"
Mrs. Maxwell remembered how she had
! aCEuEGtl OIitiS VI liit WI AUAitS CiAC AAetI
owned to. and was silent
! Now shall | be little practical ANNA
and you won't get sleepy or yawn, at my
/ lecture"
Harry ?"
"Well | think I usually do find you a
patient listener, and so to commence my
Observation-Disclosures drawn from your
experience in trying to be perfectly truth
ful for a whole day-society isn't perfect
you see. my dear
Very easily, I assure you"
Well. and we can't make 1t so, though
We should all like to try hand al the re
formation But then we need not make
ourselves miserable about it, or avoid that
natural. social intercourse which, after all
is one of the greatest pleasures Of exist
ence Now I've noticed in my visits to
Leighton, in the days of my wooing, how
bothered and annoyed you used to be by
the petty gossip of its inhabitants. You
have not forgotten what a talk my first
visit at your fathers made"
No. indeed. and my engagement ring
proved the topic OF conversation for two
pic-nics and a sewing circle"
at was only natural The place wa.
small, events were rare, and SO petty gos
sip arises Now here it is different
There is a crowd Of daily occurrences
cause and effect follow so quickly that We
have very little time for noticing them
Where there are five or six weddings IN {
set in one season, of course particular:
cannot be discussed so minutcly as if there
was but one. We make a great many ac
IQuaintances. some Of these pleasant ones
all amusing enough for the time being anC
we are uncousciously betrayed into {
warmth of manner that borders on insin
cerity. At home you knew every one anC
just what attention was due to them
But this cannot be here, where there ]!
such a mixing and mingling of clements
Just as | was coming to dinner, [ me
, DR. Jones. and noticing the Grape upor
his hat remembered that his uncle dice
last week ] was just about to offer ny
sympathy when | remembered that he haC
left the doctor thirty thousand dollars. t,
which some give him credit for having
looked for many years. The cd gentle
man has been i'll long time. and to tel
the truth, [ don't believe there was a sin
ccre mourner at his funeral"
Our funerals are tarees, added Mrs
Maxwell energetically.
So, dear, society in a large town o.
city has also its besetting sin. arising from
its elements most naturally; the very on
which you deplore SO much. Now if ev
erv one took the trouble TO note this, anC
guard against it constantly, it would yer,
soon disappear, Bat the few must com
mence to infuse the lesson Of sincerity,
and I don't deny that it takes great dea
of watchfulness and moral courage"
His listener sighed an assent. As sh'
had said before, she had no idea it va
such a difficult matter
Now if you please my patient Httl'
hearer, we will close the present grave dis
cussion, and you shall sing me some o
those dear old songs"
Tbaro ,.,.e much moro of fho f0yor thar