Show one day last week an incident was brought to our attention which illustrates how careful we should be not to speak carelessly of one who is tot not present in this particular case a young man in conversing with a lady friend and for lack of something 0 sensible to say spoke carelessly and irrelevantly of a common friend of the two tho the lady in the same a spirit p irit pasted the remark on an to the friend he said nothing but putting tue this remark and two or three hints together that had come collie to him indirectly thought he saw an ail iii insinuation in ta the I 1 e words and felt justly aggrieved however Ho vever uever lie hail had tin till I 1 I 1 gud judgment lu eek beek an ex x tiou frum the author ur or he HB petua remark rk and thereby nipped ill in the bud what wha t pare have devel aped into a lifelong life long estrangement it has often been beed said eaid that it if every man know knew what his hi s friends said about him there would bo be no friendship on earth that may be putting e the matter to an extreme bigl light 1 t but still there is too much truth I 1 in ll 11 it careless or thoughtless remarks often cause wounds that are never healed it should be our constant alit aim to avoid saying anything that might hurt the feelings of a friend or injure him in any way |