The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1878-02-09
There's Dust on Your Classes
Maud Manning in N. Y. Observer.1

| Maud Manning in N. Y. Observer.l
don't often put on glasses to examine
Katy's work but one morning not long
since | did so upon entering a room she
had been sweeping, "Did you forget to
open the windows when yon swept, Katy?"
| inquired; this room is very dusty II
think there is dust on your eye glasses,
ma'am," she said nodest|y. And sure
enough the eye glasses were at fault, and
not Katy. rubbed them off and every.
thing looked bright anl clean, the carpet
like new, and Katy's face said,-Tm glad
it was ,he glasses and not me this time.
This has taught me good lesson, l said
to myself npon leaving the room, and one
| shall remember through life.
That evening Katy came to me with
some kitchen trouble The cook had
done so and so, and she had said so and
so. When her story was finished, l said
smiling y: There is dust on your glasses
Katy, rub. them off, you will see better"
She understood me and left the room.
| told the incident to the children and
it is quite common to hear them say to
each other, "Oh there's dust on your
glasses" Sometimes I am referred to,
Mamma, Harry has dust on his glasses
can't be rub them off p
When hear person criticizing an.
other, condemning perhaps course Of
action he knows nothing about, drawing
ipferences prejudlcial to the person or
persons, think right away there's dust
on your glasses, rub it off," The truth is,
everybody wears this these very same
glasses, only the dust is little thicker on
some than-o1hers aud needs harder rub
bing to get it off.
l said this to John one day, some little
matter coming up, that called forth the
remark: "There are some people l wish
would begin to rub, then," said be. "There
is Mr.. So and So and Mrs. So and SO,
they are always ready to pick at some one,
to slur, to hint, | don't know, ! don't like
them." II think my son John has wee
bit on his glasses just now;" be laughed
and asked, "Wbat is body to dog"
keep your own we'll rubbed up, and you
will not know whether others need it or
not" Il will," he'replied. think as a
family we are all pro6ting by that little
incident. and through life will never for
get the meaning of-"There is dust on
you: glasses" ..
FEMALE SOCIETY,"" You know my
opinion Of female society,"" said John Ran.
do!ph. "W,hout it we should degener.
ate into brutes" This observation ap-
plies with tenfo|d force to young men and
those who are IN the prime of manhood.
For, after certain time Of life, the literary
man may make shift "a poor one, I
yranD to do without the society Of ladies'.
TO a young man nothing is so important
as spirit Of devotion, next to his Creator,
% some aimiabls woman, whose image
nay occupy his heart and guard it from
which besets it on all sides. A
nan ought 70 choose his wife, as Mrs.
Primrose did her Wedding gown, for quail
ties that "wear we'll" One thing at least
$ true, that if matrimony has its cares,
,elibacy has no pleasures. A Newton or
! mere scholar may find employment in
study; a man Of literary taste can receive
n books powerful auxiliary /; but a man
must have bosom friend and children
Iround him to cherish and support the
lrearness Of old age.