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Show Family Traits. You hear a great deal of scientific talk about "family traits" appearing in young people after the ancestors who hnd these traits have been dead many years. There was once a great shipbuilder named Steers, who built the yacht America, which won the cup from England many years ago. He had a shipyard In Manhattan. His son became a judge, and never made ships, but his son's son, however, though he studied law, could design and whittle nut the best toy bonts going. Yet the lawyer never had any practice in carpentering, nor had his daughter, who could handle a knife like a master. She made a specialty of music, and could play the violin and the piano, but she and her father had both of them Inherited the knack of designing and modeling from their ancestors. In Three Parte. A' mountaineer preacher once said to his flock: "Brethren, I hev decided decid-ed t' divide my sernion In three parts. Th' fust part I'll understand, an' you won't. Th' second part you'll understand, under-stand, an' I won't. The third part no-body'll no-body'll understand." Easy. "The word 'reviv'er' spells the same backward or forward." It was the frivolous man who spoke. "Can you think of another?" The serious man scowled up from his newspaper. "Tut-tut!" "Tut-tut!" he cried contemptuously. Toledo To-ledo Blade. Depths of Despair. There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments mo-ments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what It la to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to havs rscoversi hope. Geergs Eliot, |
