oman:--

Our homes are cheerier for her sake,
Our door-yards brighter blooming,
And all about the social air
Is sweeter for her coming.

A guest for two weeks at the house of Arthur M. Cavanaugh, M. P., who
was without arms or legs, was very desirous of knowing how he fed
himself; but the conversation and manner of the host were so charming
that the visitor was scarcely conscious of his deformity.

"When Dickens entered a room," said one who knew him well, "it was like
the sudden kindling of a big fire, by which every one was warmed."

It is said that when Goethe entered a restaurant people would lay down
their knives and forks to admire him.

Philip of Macedon, after hearing the report of Demosthenes' famous
oration, said: "Had I been there he would have persuaded me to take up
arms against myself."

Henry Clay was so graceful and impressive in his manner that a
Pennsylvania tavern-keeper tried to induce him to get out of the
stage-coach in which they were riding, and make a speech to himself and
his wife.

"I don't think much of Choate's spread-eagle talk," said a
simple-minded member of a jury that had given five successive verdicts
to the great advocate; "but I call him a very lucky lawyer, for there
was not one of those five cases that came before us where he wasn't on
the right side." His manner as well as his logic was irresistible.

When Edward Everett took a professor's chair at Harvard after five
years of study in Europe, he was almost worshiped by the students. His
manner seemed touched by that exquisite grace seldom found except in
women of rare culture. His great popularity lay in a magical
atmosphere which every one felt, but no one could describe, and which
never left him.

A New York lady had just taken her seat in a car on a train bound for
Philadelphia, when a somewhat stout man sitting just ahead of her
lighted a cigar. She coughed and moved uneasily; but the hints had no
effect, so she said tartly: "You probably are a foreigner, and do not
know that there is a smoking-car attached to the train. Smoking is not
permitted here." The man made no reply, but threw his cigar from the
window. What has her astonishment when the conductor told her, a
moment later, that she had entered the private car of General Grant.
She withdrew in confusion, but the same fine courtesy which led him to
give up his cigar was shown again as he spared her the mortification of
even a questioning