| Show BE CHEERFUL AND POLITE AT MEALS NT como come to the breakfast table tahle DONT D telling everybody what n miser ablo night you sleep a 1 Wink ou Havo you any uny tight right to planter pl your our misery miller over everybody else clo come to tho dinner In the evening detailing to the family every business s worry and perplexity every domestic trouble making them m tako tallo In along with their food tood the aura of ot your our disappointment anger unger and despondency Ito enough ellough to have ha f been disappointed and angry without making kl III everybody else suffer The man or wo woman woo wooman man who will pour our out tho trouble of or ortho tho day da at nt tho evening meal no mat matter mattel tel ter what those thoo troubled wire ought to tobe tobe be choked olf olt and led away awo to 10 cat cuI alono utter after the rent are ale done doneA A greater sinner sinnet still Is I the person who tilts lilts down at ot the family table with witha a 11 grumpy forbidding dont speak expression of ot countenance us n If It ho were a boss executioner arid was prepared to strike ort off tho head of ot anybody any body bod who talked or laughed aloud while There Is a II frightful superstition tion In a IL quarters that It IB III not seemly to talk and b hI merry while eat eilt eating ing IuS hut but that In order to 1 1 express O proper to Providence for tor the food put Iut before us It Is III al ry to choke that food down In surly Burl si ISI silence lence mcl Wherever Wh a l family for tor lt sins hIM Is IH with thin sort of unpleasant person cr on us liS Ol lt Its ItH heads you ou will see Ihl younger members of ot that family a mil chilled Into dead silence wherever wh roer the person and they the lIdo off ono by II one thin way Ia mid that to some Homo where they can call alembic lIe and bo free treo and merry 11 err without lilt tho pretence of the tho family nightmare 1 I have ha tn fa fathers a theu of ot families who were exactly cacti of that kind who gloried In impressing all merriment among their children and canting a pall 1811 of fretting f over the fondly meal Th pity It VMS the children hud 1111 1 lIch mich a 11 dis dislike like and dread d ad of ot tho presence of ot their father tather that they got ol away from rom home to bO soon oon as a they the grown rown and ho hoof of ot them tell fell Into evil ell ways Tho fhe old man then blamed It lIon on for him when tho un unfortunate 1 fortunate outcome was wall nothing but bUl the tho of his hi own grout ness tI nt II t home 1 dont know actually which U II the worse wr 1 or the father or tho Individual who talks of bodily ho 1 I I ailments and Ind horrible and disgusting Incidents at meals Some folk who consider really well bird Icet and Ind will detail how they the havo hao taken medicine and what effect It had hili I on In them or how this or III that disagreed with their Mom other particulars that arc enough to turn a u relined refined well per person son lion out and down IH III It any w that nearly all tho world IH Is dyspeptic when wo we consider that besides be swallowing with OUt our food tood of ot that do not be belong boo long lon rightly therl wo VI must also low tho bal bad temper coarseness cour busi bUill business ness lI l troubles und an bodily ailments of of those tho o who gather Ia ther around tho table to eat with us The wonder Is III Hint any refined sensitive person 1 lire arc left alive at all allNut Nut ul Let Lt us u put aside while filing all that can hurt the most mo t fastidious Let UN II be bl merry and talk and think of pleasant mutters except that w we talk with our mouths full tull Let us make use u e at tab of tho most refined and courteous manners wo we patens Let et tho round of ot laughter from rum our board tho bright atmosphere of ot relined refined cheer cheerfulness p ull Let us 1115 avoid load loadIng Ing anything unpleasant upon thoo around us Let each be the occa occasion sion olon of ot Joy and affectionate manifesta manifestation lion tion So shall the children look back to their tul home as us to ono one spot on this earth cuth where thy they were huppy happ JANE J E MOSES |
