Smyrna times., 1877-10-17
Society Fibs.

! I'Ottl AlC3 CACltllIlGu a. NlV1ClOuS Young
friend Of ours the other day, " | have just
had to tell the most shocking fJs! NY con.
science troubles me yet"
"Why, and about what did YOU tell your
tibs?' we asked, and the answer was:
ooh, l went to see my friend, Mrs.
Brown, who has Just gone to housekeeping,
and nothing would do but must go over
the whole house, and admire it, of course.
Helen kept asking all the time: Now isn't
this carpet lovely? and Did you ever see
| a more beautiful table I? or Is not that the
| easiest arm chair you ever sat IMP until I
was both tired Of agreeing with her, and
| ashamed of myself for doing it, for to tell
the truth, don't like her taste at all 1t
Is so hard to be enthusiastic to order.
Then why attempt it at ALP we in
qured
What would you have one to do? be
candid and disagreeable? veX your friends
hy speaking your mind, and expect them
to take your uncomfortable savings
amiably? You must remember that we do
not live in a Palace Of Truth now-a-davs."
"Then it would be better five did. since
one must be untruthful to be liked
" Not ,mtrWhfd! that is such a harsh.
ugly word, objected our companion. .
said f5S. you know"
" Well tbs are untruths. it seems to rs
and when you agree with your friends
because you fear to offend or annoy them
10y disagreement, you do violence to your
sense OF truth, and impair the sensibility of
your conscience. The same fibs will be
easier next time, and the passive untruth
may merge into the active falschood."
hen would you have me aArays say
what think? Can the truth be spoken
at all times -
-" 1t IS quite possible to be kind and
polite, even in our truth telling Offensive
candor Is not Christian grace, though we
nave known many people who were frank
even to positive rudcness, under this mis-.
apprehension. But conscientious souls, with
ordinary tact, will preserve their own in
tegr!ty without wounding Others"
But what would you do if you went to
see baby as | did lately, and had to say it
was a perfect beauty when it was positively
ugly! wouldn't that test your princi
NO, because We would not say any such
thihG. \ baby IS always precious gift to
its mother, and one might sneak Of its
sweetness and lovableness gracefully
enough. without mentioning beauty Rcst
assured, that all the fbs which YOU think
friendship and social intercourse demand
OF you, can be avoided by little thought.
tulncss on your part; and YOU will not
only save your conscience many n panc.
but your friends will grow insensibly to
realize your cXactncss Of speech, and 10
prize your words the more"
PRETTY or Nor.-To be pretty is tho
great object Of almost every living woman
even those who lecture upon the impro.
prIety OF being SO. Beautiful women
spend good deal of thought upon their
own charms, and homely women orow
homellcr through fretting because they are
not handsome Men, at least. when tbev
are young, are very much like women in
tins respect, though they hide their feel
lngs better.
lhere IS one comfort to the homely ones.
however. After you come to know people
very intimately, you do not know whether
they are pretty or not. Their "wavs" make
an impression on you, but not their noses
ana ears, their eyes and mouths. In time
tne soul expresses itself to you, and it is |
th"t winch you see. A man who has been |
! married twenty years scarcely knows what
ms Wlte looks like. He may declare that |
he does, and tell that she is a bewitcbing |
little blonde, with soft blue ewes. lon@ |
after she is fat, and red, and forty because |
the image of his early love is in his heart, |
ana he doesn't see her as she is to-day, but
as she was when he cou1ted her Or beinc |
an indifferent husband, he NAV not know |
she IS the fine woman other people think
her' You have known men who have
married the plainest women, and think
them beauties; and you know beauties
VINO are quite thrown away on men who
saiue wife for her success as cook. As
ar as ones effect upon strangers is to be
-aken into consideration, beauty is vaIua.
Die. So, if YOU have it, rejoice but if Won
nave 1t not, be content. Take care of vour
leart, your soul, and your manners, and
,Gu will make for yourself that beauty
nil'cil VIII render you lovely to those who
IRE nearest and dearest to you.
HE ORIGIN OF POSTAGE STAMPS
'rigIn OF the postage stamp had tinge of
'omance IN it. 1t was thirtv-seven yoors