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Show THE REDEEMING TRAIT You can find the redeeming fait In any ono If you look for It. A single feature mny redeem a face: fine eyes may offset Incorrigible hair, a faultily moulded nose, a vacll latlng chin, anemic complexion. Just so a single commendable element of character may offet lnmentnble short comings. When thoy can sny nothing noth-ing elso that is good of a politician they nvor that he Is good to bis mother, moth-er, and In tho eyes of many thnt con dnncs manifold obliquities of precept and of conduct. A boy In school gave a great deal of trouble to Ills teachers. There seemed to bo no way to reach tho best that was In him. Ho did not seem to bo Interested Interest-ed in anything unless It had to do with malicious mischief. Hut thoy discovered, by and by, thnt he was In te'ested In chicken raising. The) gnvo him tho caro of poultry, nnd It proved a groat success both for the boy and for the hens. Tho one strong Interest In Hfo abolished n multitude of minor evils. It redeemed him for useful service. |