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Show Making a Bad Matter Worse. I It Is a dangerous thing, when you. 1 have let slip an unfortunate remark, I to try to cover up the blunder. J Mrs. G. was talking with the wife I of Judge III about hr son's choice of I a profession. "I don't want him to- I be a lawyer," she said. E "Why not?" said the Judge's wife. "I think there Is nothing much liner thnn the legul profession for a bright boy." "Well." said Mrs. G., bluntly, "a. lawyer has to tell so many lies." Then It dawned on her thut she wns talking to the wlfo of n lawyer; so she hastily 1 -uhledtf "That Is er to he a good luv- jj yerl" Youth's Companion. n |