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Show A WOMAN'S REMARKS. Mrs. Gilbert, tbe Scotch mother of John Gilbert, the hero in . "Tbe Balance of Pber," " Arthur Goodrich's iiew novel, has many original payings that are worth preserving. Here are a few of them: "Tbe friends your money buys, your lack or it sells." VAnd as for your own sort of people, I find that almost anybody can be my sort of ptoplo if I give tbem a chance." "'It's well.-for a Scotchman to right,' my mother used to say, "for if he's wrong he's ever and eternally wrong.'" "It's beaten to tell Scotch woman everything than to lot. her. guees. She ll know less in the end." "Somehow you can't laugh away your weaknesbos and you wouldn't if you could, I think. They're the marks that make you (eel at horofi with yoursplf." "That's the way with you men. Things to do and folks to see, while tbe womn sit and knit and think, or pew aud think, or make beds and think, or do nothing but think." "Men, tbe best of them, sre always wanting to do what it isn't in them to do. David wasn't the kind to make money, so down in his heart be wanted to. He was so niodext he shrank from seeing his Mine In the paper, so in his Inmost soul he thought fame must b? a very fine thing. It isn't the thing they can put their. hand on that most men want, but something that's far out of reach. "There's a word I mind my own mother used to say when things' went as tbey shouldn't. 'We've aye been proUdcd for, and aye-will we yet.' " "Oh, aye. blood telle, but you don't always listen to it. more bbame to you." |