SOME CONVERSATION "DON'TS."
Don't talk of the cost of things-; it gives the rich a chance of boastfulnfiss, and may be embarrassing to the poor. Don't discuss children ; if you have any, the chances are you are boring those 'who have not. If yon have none, you are sore to be mortally wounding those" who have. Don't discuss dress; the lady whose'short evening crown yon are scorning may have come direct from Paris, wearing the "newest thing, and the whele subject is a hopeless one anyway. Generations must pass.before mortals will have the courage to ■wear anything beautiful or simple or useful or healthful.
Don't discuss diseases or surgical operations. Without a natural pathological taste or a trained nurse's experience it is apt to disgust Tieonle.
Don't mention family feuds. It embarrasses the listener, aaid vou are. sure to regret it.
Dont tell your, personal interests, occupations, hopes, or acryirations. Nobody wants to hear them, and you give your dimity a mcrta! stab.
Don't indulge in personalities. They invariably return worse than they started out. • ,- . ■
But however manv " don'ts" the manual may contain, the last and best, 'and final one must be: Smile bravely, and don't speak at all.—'Harper's Weekly.'
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Evening Star, Issue 12396, 9 January 1905, Page 6
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