Year: 1871

infinite Wisdom that have succumbed to
the normal destructive qualities OF man.


TABLE CoNvERsATIoN.-Ag great deal
of character is impaired and received at
the table. Parents too often forget this
and therefore, instead OF swallowing
your food in sullen silence, instead of
brooding over your business, instead of
severely talking about others, let the
conversation at the table be genial, kind,
social, and cheering. Don't bring dis
agreeable things to the table in your
conversation any more than you would
in your dishes. For this reason too the
more good company you have at your
table the better for your children. Every
conversation with company at your
table is an educator of the family. Hence
the intelligence and the refinement, and
the appropriate behavior of family
which is given to hospitality. Never
feel that intelligent visitors can be any
thing but blessing to you and yours.
How few have fully gotten hold of the
fact that company and conversation are
no small part of education.


THAT TURKISH CARPET FOR THE WHITE
HOUSE.-The daily Press says the new
carpet sent to the people of the United
States as q present by the Sultan of Tur-
key and recently put down in the East
room ofthe White house, has disappointed
public expectation as far as appearance
is concerned. The material and work
manship are certainly excellent but the
design of the thing would be rejected for
horseblanket in any well regulated
American stable. 1t would be difficult
to bring together in one pattern greater
agglomeration of disagreeable colors and
figures for the adornment of a drawing
room. The prominent colors are black,
white and yellow. The design for the
figures woven into the plan is every bit
as handsome as the outline patterns seen
on the exterior of 4 tea chest, or the
embellishments which appear on the little
gold images eXhumed from the Iriqui
mounds in Central America. The fabric
is about half an inch in thickness, and
from the solidity of its texture looks as
though it would stand a good deal of
wear and tear. But the effect of the car
pet on the handsome colors and adorn-
ments of the East room is the reverse of
happy.


"MAKE STRAIGHT PATHs."--Young
men, when they first go away from home,
and young women, at their first entrance
upon society, are very apt to incur need
less risks to character and reputation
from sheer fool-hardiness. They do not
''use their freedom" They feel strong
and are wise in their own conceit. They
would like to do some daring deed and
come out unscathed, just to falsify the
prediction of older heads. We have
known many youths to throw themselves
into the way of wicked temptation and
to walk purposely on the edge of some
fatal precipice, for the mere purpose of
showing their agility in escaping. For
such, and for all who have any influence
with such, we have message worth
considering. "Make straight paths for
your feet, lest that which is lame be
turned out of the way, but let it rather
be healed" Not even the Son of God
would make a needless leap from the
pinacle of the temple. Angels will bear
us up in every danger, so that no person
doing his duty shall suffer bruising; but
he who chooses the toughest and most
dangerous paths without being called to
tread them is tempting God to leave him
to the natural results of his own weak
ness.-EEchGnge.