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Show Silence Not Always Well Tho vlrtuo of silence has often been overrated. It Is rarely instilled into a young girl's or rami's mind that sho or ho has no right to bo silent when thoy could bo amusing or to nccept hospitality without making any effort to add to the pleasure of tho other guests of their hostess. For there are times when tho most reckless of tnlk-orn tnlk-orn cannot do so much harm or wound so cruelly as tho person who holds his peace. Tho old proverb hath It that "speech Is silver and silence is golden," but, nevertheless, sllcnco is not nlways golden; It sometimes partakes par-takes of a leaden quality and descends with crushing force upon an assembly. Theoretically, It Is a quality that commands com-mands tho highest admiration, but practically It is a vlrtuo thnt is sometimes some-times better honored In tho breach than In tho observance, says tho Prov-ldonco Prov-ldonco Journal. There Is certainly much to be said for tho woman a1io chatters as blithely blithe-ly as a canarry. and there aro many times when sho Is to bo preferred to the ono who wrnps herself In an awful sllenco, under whose baneful Inlluenca nil cheerfulness dies. Behind tho power and knowiedgo which mako any ono cnpnblo of enriching en-riching social llfo with reviving conversation con-versation must lie, us a foundation, tho earnest desire to give ploasure, lnl dependent of wlmt one may recelvo III return, and n senso of duty regarding? those whom wo meet In tho world. The joung woman who goes Into tho world of society to which clrcum stances give her the open door, with tho capability of Interesting nnd rousing rous-ing a cheeiful How of pleasant conversation, conver-sation, has an assiirunco of enjoyment wherover she appears |