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Show Making a Bad Matter Worse. It Is a dangerous thing, when yon nave let slip an unfortunate remark, to try to cover up the blunder. llrs. G. wss talking with the wife of Judge H. ubout hr son's choice of a profession. "1 don't want hiai to be a lawyer," she siild. "Why not?" Raid the judge's wife. "I think there is nothing much fjner than the leg-al profession for a briht boy." "Well." snid Mrs. G bluntly, "a lawyer has to toll so many lies. Then It dawned on her thut she was talking to the wife of a lawyer; so s!ie hnstl'y idiled, "That Is or to be a givxl la yer !" Youth's Companion. |