Middletown transcript., 1877-07-21
UaritHes
Much jeweIry is vulgar.

Unsweetened coffee cures bad BREATH
Let them obey who know how to
rule.
In going up or down stairs precede
the lady.
Time will teach him who has no
teacher.
Short nails make the finger tips
grow broad.
We ask advice, but we mean appro-
baton.
Address your wife as Mrs, your
husband as @Mr"
He who lives to no purpose lives to
a bad purpose
Fortune does not change nlen; It
only unmask, them.
He is the greatest who chooses to do
right at all times.
Whoever conquers Incidence can
conquer most things.
Reproye thy friend privately; com
mend him publicly.
Prayer is the key Of the morning
and the bolt at night.
A girl should not stroll away with
a gentleman at picnic.
Your goodness must haves some edge
to it, else it is none.
No gentleman will smoke in a lady's
presence without permission.
A pink ribbon under the chin makes
a pale woman look brighter.
No man respects a girl who firts.
though he may hirt with her.
A mans temper is most valuable TO
himself, and he should keep it.
To do our best when we know it can
be only second best is noble.
Ambition is the germ from which
all growth Of nobleness proceeds.
An engagement Of marriage is little
less sacred than an actual marriage.
Let pleasure be ever 50 innocent
the excess is always criminal.
Industry is the gift Of tongues. and
makes a man understood and valued
| in all nations.
An excuse is worse and more terri
BILE than lie, for an excuse is a lie
guarded.
/ A married man has no right to bee
familiar with another lady, not a rela-
tive.
/ This world would be a dreadfully
silent place if people talked as little as
they thought
Never cross knife and fork on your
plate. Lay them nearly and care
lessIy parallel.
Never despise humble services; when
large ships run aground, little boats
may pull them off
The darkest side Of the road to
heaven is brighter than any part Of the
broad way that leads to destruction.
Before me-to do wrong is a sin;
behind me-the deed done must have
been.
Truth is the shortest and nearest
| way to our end, carrying US thither IN
a straight line.
i Cromwell says that one never goes
50 far as when one does not know
whittier he is going.
If you have religion you need not
tell people about it; they will find it
out after trading with you for a little
while.
Men will never know US by our
faith, for that is within US they know
US by our works, which are visible to
them.
Precious things in art, as in nature,
are seldom spontaneous, but require
growth and deliberation beyond the
germ.
Labor is the law of the world, and
he who lives by other means Is Of less
value to the world than the buzzing
busy insect.
The most joyous and gladstone ma
lures are those most keenly alive to
impressions of reverence, wonder and
awe.
There is no strength so invigorating
as that which arises out of victory over
selfish inclination, obtained by the
force of right principle.
@You try in vain, says a pithy wri-
ter, ito sweep the mist from your door
with broom, but when the sun shines
upon.it how soon it disperses ]"
We are surrounded by abysses, but
the greatest of all depths is our own
heart, and an irresistible leaning leads
US there. Draw thyself from thyself.
To know a man, observe how he
wins his object rather than how he
loses it 5; for when we fall, our pride
lsupports when We succeed, it betrays
us.
She WIN does not make her family