Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-11-09
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
If a man COULD be conscious of all
that is said of him in his absence. be
would probably become very modest
man indeed.
LET grace and goodness be the prin-
cipal loadstone of the affections, for
| love which hath ends will have an end,
whereas, that which is founded on true
love will always continue.
EVERY man takes care that his neigh
Dor shall not cheat him; but day comes
when he begins to care that he does not
cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well.
He has changed his market-cart into =
chariot of the sun.
1T is the united action of the brain
and the eve that forms the habit Of close
observation. We must think about what
we see if it is to make any permanent
| impression. When the mind is vacant,
the ewes are robbed of half their value.
EXPENSE, and great expense, may be
an essential part Of true economy. Ii
parsimony were to be considered as one
of the kinds of that virtue, there is,
however, another and higher economy.
Economy is distinctive virtue, and
consists not in saving. but in selection.
A MOTHER should have tender and
loving but firm control of her child from
its first breath. She should as carefully
shield it from elf-consciousness, cOnceit,
and willfulness as she does from scarlet
fever and whooping- cough. She should,
above all things, set it daily example OF
Justice and truthfulness in the smallest
affairs.
NEVER teach false modesty. How
exquisitely absurd to teach q girl that
beauty is of no value, dress of no usei
Beauty is of value; her whole prospects
and happiness in life may often depend
upon new gown or becoming bonnet;
| if she has FIVE grains of common sense,
she will find this out. The great thing
is to teach her their proper value.
To make life happy, take time; it is Of
no use to fume or fret, or do as the
angry housekeeper who has got hold of
the wrong KEY, and pushes, shakes. and
rattles it about the lock until both are
broken and the door is still unopened.
The chief secret of comfort lies In not
suffering trifles to vex us and in cult
waiting our underground of small pleas
ures. Try to regard present vexations
as you will regard them month hence.
Since we cannot get what we like, let US
like what we can get.
A CHEERFUL temper in a house Is like
perpetual sunshine, gladdening and en-
livening every one, in the presence OF
which you forget your troubles and
would be ashamed to remember your
annoyances; but bad temper spoils
everything. Offence taken at airy moth
ings, impatience under unavoidable
worries, small things made into great
ones by the magnifying powers of sus-
picion, sullenness, irritability, ill-humor
who can say that all this has no in
f1uence? You might as well deny the
singing power of a midge or the pene-
trating quality of dust as deny the de-
pressing effect of i'll humor wherever it
is found and the corresponding good in
fiuence Of sweet temper. Also, the imi-
tation of either the one or the other, a.
it may chance which rules, is sure to
break out in the younger and weaker OF
the family.
A QUAKER, who had made large for.
tune as a merchant in Liverpool, was
once asked how he had managed it!
"By a single article" he answered, sin
which every one may deal who pleases-
civility" Lord Burleigh was also aware
of the financial value of the same com
modify, for he used to say to Queen
Elizabeth: swim hearts, and you have
peoples purses at command" Now
the surest way of winning hearts, is to
form the habit of being civil to every
body. True politeness is more than
"surface Christianity" If a man be a
Christian gentleman, the fact will be
known by his cat, his dog. his horse
: his children, and every living being that
comes in his way. To each and all he
will display the gentler graces. Viewed
IN InlS llglI Iuc HlBucS1 hiHu VI CifHiIs
means carrying into detail the golden
rule: "Do unto others as you would they
should do unto you."
A GIFTED authoress tells us that il
takes a heroine to be economical. fOl
will not many a woman rather run ir
debt for bonnet than wear her old ont
year behind the model-give ball
and stint the family dinner month
after?-take large house and furnish
large reception-rooms, while her house
hold huddle together anyhow! She pre-
= fers this hundred times to stating
plainly, by word or manner: "My income
is so much year-I don't care whit
knows tit will not allow me to liv,
beyond certain rate. it will not keel
comfortably both my family and my &C
= quaintances-therefor excuse my pre-
ferring the comfort of my family TO tn
entertainment of my acquaintance 6
And. society, If you choose to look upol
us, you must take us just as we are
without any pretenses of any kind, o
you may shut the door and say good by
lat once.