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Show An Alleviating Circumstance. It distressed Miss WU'tng to find how much the llttlo girls in her Sunday Sun-day school class thought about dress nnd outward adorning. S"r- lost no opportunity to toll them .mv slight was the Importance or such things. "Tho reason I didn't come last Sunday Sun-day was because my coat wasn't finished," fin-ished," sold smal) Mnry Potter ono day, when questioned as to her nonappearance non-appearance the week before. "My old one hnd spots qn It that wouldn't come off nnd a place where the buttons had torn through." "But, Mary, dear," said tho teacher, goutly, "you know it's not tho outside that really matters." "Yes'm, I Know," said llttlo Mary, "but, MUs Willing, mother had ripped the lining out, so there wasn't any.ln-side any.ln-side to look nt!" Youth Companion |