The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-03-12
VARIETY.

Keep your temper in disputes. The cool hammer
fashions the red-hot iron into any shape needed
1t is not we'll to be much dspleased with harmless
delusions that tend to make us happy.
Learn not to judge too rash1y of any one, either in
respect of good or evil, for both are dangerous
Plato.
There is certain species if pride which contra
diets the ordinary symptoms of the feeling, and ap-
pears most elevated when it would be reasonable to
expect it should be most depressed
WORTH RE0IE0IBERING.-Th great secret of avoiding
disappointments is not to expect too much. Despair
follows immoderate hope things fall hardest the
ground that have been nearest to the sky.
1t is singular fact that dues and suicides are un-
known among the Turks. They believe in predest-
nation and rgiy opposed to the idea of hasten
ing death by arsenic or gunpowder. The conduct of
the Turks in this respect may be therefore held up
q model for polite imitation.
ADIEU.-This is an expression of farewell, faml-
ary used by all classes of people but its derivation,
which is beautiful one is perhaps not generally
known 1t comes from the French word Dieu-to
God-mplying, [ depart from you, but leave you to
the protection of Heaven.
NEvER.-Never tip your beaver to a fine lady, and
pass a poor widow without seeming to see her.
- Never pass aged man woman, without making
reverental obeisance, unless your house is fire.
Never break your neck to bow at all to q g sweet
sixteen . with founced Dress who is ashamed of
her old fashioned mother to struttng collegiate
who is Mortified at his grandmother's bad grammar.
the stable, while you frighten your wife out of the
idea of keeping a for the twins, by constantly
talking of 's hard times
Never converse with a lady, with cigar in your
mouth, smoke in anybody company without apol-
ogizing for the same
Never remind people of personal deformity, Of
the relatives who have disgraced them.
Never leave letter unanswered, and use the stamp
which enclosed to you to ssreply with, ,, on let
ter to your own sweetheart.
Mover ride in a fine carriage and keep score o.
servants, while your widowed sister trudges foot
and tolls for her daily bread.
Never wear a finer coat than the merchant you owe
for it, or the tailor whom you have not paid for the
making.
Never turn deaf ear to woman in distress, be
cause you cannot how you would be the gamer by
her bettered condition.
Never wound wantonly the sensitive nature of the
constitutional invalid by rude jests and sarcasms
send blush to the temples of modest merit.
Never Jest with a single woman about the anxiety
of all women to be married tell your wife you
married her because you pitied her lonely condition
Never go to bed at ten, leaving your wife up TIL
two with sick baby; and look pitchtorks at her a
the breakfast-able because that meal Is half an noun
too late.
Never hear ungracious structures upon the conduc
of a woman with quiet smile, instead OF saying IL
thunder tones, g 1t is false, sir.
Never fall back from bargain after the articles
agreement are drawn up, and only need your sigma
ture to make them perfect
Never insult the modest by ribaldry, the grave By
leYty nor the pious by contempt of sacred things.