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TAKING ADVICE
Or. First and Second Husband.
ny OLIVER OF TIC.

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10, CHAPTER LIS it going to rain to
day, John 2 asked Mrs. Brace of her hus-- !
band, one Sunday morning. ~ r
The sky was cloudy, and the wind was
from the southwest; but it was dog days
and 'all signs fail in dry time
sI.don't know; my DEAR replied Mr..
Brace, with smile. 1t looks something
like it. ''..'-. ~
Il wish you would tell me- added the
wife. ss,
4 would Caroline, if knew
'If tits going to rain, don't want to
wear my best bonnet to church,
We may have ram, and we may not;
there is not much dependence to be placed
upon the weather at this season of year.
replied Mr.. Brace, quietly, as he fixed his
eyes upon the Banner which he had been
reading.
You never will tell me anything John
Il will tell you anything / know, my
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.WiIl it rain q @ -tsae6
i don't know
What do you think 2
1t is impossible to form an opinion
The safest way will be for you to wear
your old bonnet
1T looks like 4 fright.
That is the best advice can give you,
my DEAR
why can't you say right out whether
you think it will rain or not9'
Opinions lightly formed and without
sufficient data, are good for nothing Caro-
line. The weather is so changeable that
I it is utterly impossible to predict with
any certainty what it will be-
Just like you" replied Mrs. Brace, pet
tishly, as she went to the door and glanced
atthe sky
tn my opinion. it is not going to rain,
and shall wear my best bonnet continu-
ed the lady, and she proceeded to prepare
herself for church.
BY the time she was ready, the clouds
had been partially waited away, and the
sun came out.
'Pleasant--just as thought it would
be- said Mrs. Brace, as she took her hus-
band arm and walked up the street.
Mrs. Brace was one OF that large class
OF individuals-nc ladies' only, but men
and women-who do not think for them
selves. Practically. she accounted her
own judgment as nothing; that of her ad-
yisers as all sufficient. td3
She could do nothing without taking ad-
vice upon the matter. Even the most triv-
ial and insignificant affair required con-
sultation. If she was going to have a
new dress or a new bonnet, Mr.. Brace,
who was totally Indifferent upon these mat
ters, and had not particle of taste in
dressing LADY, was bored for his opin-
ion. II $ ssa III
She wanted to know whether she should
have blue or green dress but Brace,
who had never devoted any attention to
such things, did not Of course know wha,
would become her. He had never con-
suited the authorities upon the blending OF
colors and complexion. and their adaptation
to the form and size Of the individual who
was to wear them, had not even read the
Home Journal on this subject, and as q
matter of course was entirely incompetent
TO give an opinion. The extent of his
skill was that he could tell when lady
was well dressed but he could not go into
an elaborate criticism of the matter, or an
aiyze the whole appearance SO as to define
The part and syntheticallyto to reblend them
in harmonious unit. rs
And more than this, he was eonsciou:
/ of his infrmity-l would call i, so
some ladies think and talk OF dress three,
forths of the time-and he obstinately re.
fused to give advice upon subject, wher
he was wholly incompetent to do So
/ Mrs. Brace did not like this peculiarly
lin his disposition. She vented advice
whether the advisers were competent o.
not to give it. Her arguments We're tha
Mrs. So-and-so-said so-Mrs. This
q Observation-Disclosures had said so, and there
fore il must be so. age $3.50
| When the morning service was over
the sky was again overcast. and the wine
had changed more to the southwark. Sh,
took her husbands arm. and they hasten
ed towards home bat they had not accom-
plished a quarter par: Of the distance be
fore it began 10 rain with great violence
.andiwhsa thsY reached home, sfrs- Brace
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