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Show ers to be more cordial In greeting strangers In tho church. At the cbse of the service oue of the members turnj to another mernhor of the congregation con-gregation and said cordially: "I am glad to see you here this looming, and I hope that you will come again. " "I expect to," was the reply. "T have been coming here for fort years." Lowell Courier Citizen. JUST FOR FUN I Very Consoling. Mr. Drown ha 1 Rone up to the attic aud hanned himself. While the sorrow sor-row of the widow wns keenest, her neighbor, Mrs. Jones, came to coin-fort coin-fort her. .Mrs. Jones, because of her reputation for always saying tho wrong thing, had secured the content con-tent of her own family to make the' visit only on her promise that she would talk about subjects foreigti to the cause of the friend's grief. She commenced on safe ground by talking talk-ing about the weather. ''Rather nice earner ve'vo 1-eeti having, Mrs. LSiowu." Yes," 6ald Mrs. Brown; "but it has been too wet to get our washing dry." "Oh, well, you needn"t worry about that. Mrs. Brown, as you have such a nice attic to hang things iu." Llp-pincott'B. Llp-pincott'B. A Gentle Hint. Charity workers often fed great awkwardness In making public appeal for funds. Few ot them, declares the Wash Ington Star, can carry off that embarrassment embar-rassment with the grace of the colored col-ored preacher who said to his congregation: congre-gation: "Biudern. Ah kain't preach, byah, an' tx.u'd in Heb'n " A Mighty Fine Liar. Blobbs I never knew such a liar as Longbow. Slobbs YeB, that fellow could actually ac-tually eat an onion and lie out of It. Philadelphia Record. Not His Debut. At a social evening at the homo of a local merchant recently, tho conver-' cation turned to tho Bubject of ''breaks" made In downtown churches whore tho members of thy congrega Uon never became fully acquainted with everybody else. . The story was I told of a Lowell clergyman who, on anc occasion, exhorted his parlshlou- 1 |