The National tribune., 1892-06-23
LEMON TAPToCA.
EDITORS CHAT.

ETIeDET OF TEE FlREslDE.
Have you more than one get of manners?
II so, see 10 it HAT your company manners are
kept bright and polished
Silver furnishes without q vigorous rubbing up
now and then.
China collects an impalpable film Of dust If It is
not washed often.
Gold becomes dim and lusterless without the ap-
plicalioB Of the velvet and eaamois.
Diamonds even, the tears of the sun, conceal their
fires under the inperceptible coastings Of d.susc
and neglect.
Everything in this world needs the wsp Of
memory the polish Of thought TO preserve it free
from the moth and the mold and the mildew OF
time.
Company manners are OF all things the hardest
TO keep in order. They require much brushing
and cleaning and polishing; much air and SUM-
chine and ventilation
You have 10 go over them every day, whether
they in not; for there is all sorts of acids
TO corrode and dust to infltrate and terrors
20 rend and destroy.
If you put them away ia the garnet the moths
eat them, and If you lock them up in q box the
mice gBaw their way through the m. and you go
and bury them in the garden the n,oles and the
gophers and the ferrets find them out
Time stands at the door OF every mans home
stead TO carry away his neglected possessions and
work them up iaio other forms for those who will
set a value upon them. Time is tie worst enemy
OF company manners.
Company manners are like readymade garments
They are too long tee short too broad or too
narrow. They have buttons where they should
have hooks and seams W here there SHOULD he none
When yeu put them they do not fir, and when
you try 10 change them VOC find that they are all
ehaia-stiicAeo and 20 to pieces altogether.
Company manners recsire you to cay Good
morning " AID Good night TO the guests within
your house. Do You say Good morning and
Good night" 10 your father and your mother.
your sister and brother and TO the inmates of
your house, from the greatest TO the least?
Company manners require you to wait until all
have surrounded the family table before you seat
yourself at your place. Do you stand behind your
chair until the members of the household stand,
each behind las chair aud then seat yourself in an
orderly manner with the rest?
Company manners require you 10 sit leisurely for
@ mOmeLt and wait until you are helped. Do you
fall 10. Ike the swine at the trough. and dcvour
The food within your reach without any considera-
tion for those who are around you?
Company manners forbid you to loll and put
your The table. toJwhine and complain, to
sood and criticize and make yourself generally dis
agreeable Are you susve and polite and thought
frI CT the feelings of others2 DO you overlook
mistakes, and do your part towards making the
meal move of pleasantly?
Company manners viii not permit of rudeness of
speech and conduct. Are you careful Of your de-
pertinent? Are you always ready to ask pardon
FOR your snort conIings and substitute gentle re-
monstraIee for NOISY rebuke? Are you living in
sight OF God and Ills holy angels as you would live
ia the sight OF men?
BY the way, why have two sets of manners ?
Why not supply yourself with the genuine article
and stick 10 it? The old fashioned kind Is the
best; take no stock In the machine made variety.
Avoid the snowy Sort and have an eye to every
day use. The bsst kind viii wear well and Inn
prove with age. Do net invest in any other, for
with these 20 kindness, gentleness unselfishness,
generosity. hospitality, charity. aud without these
home in no home, aad the graadest palace of the
earth but q llhy hovel.
PASSING IN REVIEW.
Married: At the home of the brides parents
near Lorimor, Iowa, by Rev. a. Z. Cfegar, Justin
Edwards, of Des Moines, TO Elite Reed. c. c.
friends VIA be welcome al their IFew home, 1905
East Grand Ave. Des Moinee Iowa. Biay tiici rs