Tit-Bits.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 30, 3 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

Tit-Bits.

It is a secret cowardice which induces us to compliment the vices of our superiors, to applaud tho libertine, and laugh with the profane. — L. Murray. It was Dr. Holmes who said the mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye — the more light you throw into it the smaller it grows. Every sorrow which adds a single virtue to our character is worth enduring, and every pleasure which fails to do* this is wasted. Kindnoss draws out the better part of our sature, disarming resistance, dissipating angry passions, and melting the hardest heart. • Whether any particular day shall bring to you moro of happiness or suffering is largely beyond jour power to determine. Whether each day of your life shall give happiness or suffering rests with yourself. Taste, if it means anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern and a heart to love ana reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever or in whatsoever forms and accomplishments they are to be seen. Life is a building. It rises slowly day by day through the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on the edifice which is rising silently within us. Every experience, every touch of another life on oars, every influence that impresses us, every book we read, every conversation we have, every act of our commonest days adds something to the invisible building. There is not any virtue the exercise of which, even momentarily, will not impress a new fairness upon the features ; nor on them only, but on the whole body the moral and intellectual faculties have operation, for all the movements and gestures, however slight, are different in their modes according to the mind that governs them ; and on the gentleness and decision r>f right feeling follows grace of action, and, through continuance of this, grace of form. The more light admitted into apartments the better for those who occupy them. Light is as necessary to sound health as it is to vegetable life. Exclude it from plants, and the consequences are disastrous. They cannot bo perfect without its vivifying influence. It is a fatal mistake to curtain aud blind windows cloaely for fear of injuring tho furniture by exposure to the sun's ruys ; such rooms positively gather elements in darkness which engender disease. Let iv the light often, and freßh air too. To secure the well-balanced action of the whole nature it is needful to nourish every part, and the wise parent will watchfully study the ohild, that he may stimulate what is deficient. Instead of using the motive which will soonest and most easily produce the conduct desired, it may be better to excite those which lie dormant. Rewards and penalties will be sparingly used, and the springs of action which reside in the affections, the sympathies, the taste, will be played upon according to the mental and moral needs. Never be idle. Cultivate your mind. Make few promises. Live up to your engagements. Keep your own secrets. When you speak to a person, look him in the face. If anyone speaks ill of you let your life be so that no one will believe him. Live within your income. Small and steady gainß bring the kind of riches that do not take wings and fly away. Earn money before you spend it. Never run into debt unless you see a way to get out of it. Never borrow if you oan possibly avoid it. Do not marry until you oan support a wife. Never speak evil of anyone. Be just before you are generous. Save when you are young, and enjoy your savings when you are old.