...be able to open your lips without being harassed by such contradictions as " Oh, no, that hap pened on Tuesday, not Wednesday," or, if you remark that...good rule sometimes. How often is a whole day wasted, discussing what is to be done, where we should walk, what such a one would like; and how frequently...

...one advances the same opinion. It is generally on such trifles that this bad habit exercises itself, that it may seem needless to advert to it; but it...good rule sometimes. How often is a whole day wasted, discussing what is to be done, where we should walk, what such a one would like; and how frequently...

...petty one, never to be able to open your lips without being harassed by such contradictions as, " 0 no, that happened on Tuesday, not Wednesday ; " or,...questioned; till you at length keep silence in despair. HOW SLANDER 18 MADE. Iy every scandal there is the warp and the woof, says Dr. Cheever : it is seldom...

...clouds look threatening, to be asked, wiih a tone of surprise, "Do you think it looks like rain? I *m sure there is no appearance of such a thing." Narrate...assert a fact, it is doubted and questioned ; till yon at length keep silence in despair. A DAUGHTER'S CONVERSION. — " Well," said a mother one day,...

...and differing from each other in opinion, for no apparent reason, but from a habit of contradiction ? It is generally on such trifles that this bad habit...questioned ; till you at length keep silence in despair. Standing out for little things. * ' * # ' * # * *#**## [Query. — Would it not be a good family exercise...

...happened on Tuesday, not Wednesday ;" or, if you remark that the clouds look threatening, to be asked in a tone of surprise, " Do you think it looks like rain...questioned ; till you at length keep silence .in despair. Standing out for little things. ****** ****** [Query. — Would it not bo a good family exercise to...

...happened on Tuesday, not Wednesday;" or, if you remark that the clouds look threatening, to be asked in a tone of surprise, " Do you think it looks like rain...questioned ; till you at length keep silence in despair. Standing out for little things. X * * * * X * ***** [Query.—Would it not be a good family exercise...

...happened on Tuesday, not Wednesday ;" or, if you remark that the clouds look threatening, to be asked in a tone of surprise, " Do you think it looks like rain?...questioned ; till you at length keep silence in despair." — Peace in a family. — Dr. Newton tells of an old couple that were known to have been constantly...

...trifles, that it may seem needless to advert to it; but it is a family fault, and should be guarded against, for it is an annoyance, though but a petty...at length keep silence in despair. If such a habit be teasing, so also is the habit of indecision in trifles. " Have a choice," is a good rule sometimes....