quick, ungovernable temper is not as destructive to household peace
and comfort as the nagging, carping, fault-finding spirit that sees
good in nothing. A temper that is like a tornado in its violence at
least clears the air as it passes, and is usually followed by quick
repentance and ready reparation. But the fault-finding, nagging,
suspicious temperament is a veritable foe in a man's own household.

Where no word of praise is heard, no commendation follows the
best-intentioned efforts, but the ceaseless nagging, the ever
recurring criticism meets one at every turn, it is not strange if the
ties of affection are too often strained even to breaking.

Temper proceeds from, and is an indication of the character. It is
inherited, even as features are; but, like features, it may be
modified by culture and training, and a temper thus conquered becomes
a very desirable possession.

Home Conversation.

Educate yourself, as a wife, to keep up with the times sufficiently to
be at least a companionable conversationalist. Read the papers, read
late books; endeavor to be as entertaining to your husband as you were
to your husband-elect.

[Illustration: ETIQUETTE OF THE DRAWING-ROOM.]

As a husband, share your knowledge of the activities of life with your
wife, who, from the very nature of her occupation is excluded from
much of its exciting whirl. Read together, talk together of art, of
music, of literature, of the stirring events of the outer world, and
put afar the evil day when topics of mutual interest shall have been
worn so threadbare that the average man and women must feel a strange
desire to fall asleep directly dinner is over.

Then, too, the children hunger for new ideas, and one of the greatest
educational advantages they can enjoy is to listen daily to the
conversation of intelligent people. Too many parents who are bright
and entertaining abroad are dull and uninteresting in their own
households, to the great detriment of their children and to their own
loss of intelligent companionship in one another.

"What little Jack learneth not, the same neither learneth great John."
There is a truth in this old saying that the parents and guardians of
children would do well to ponder in their hearts, for it is a well
substantiated statement that the first ten years of a child's life
stamp upon his character the imprint for good or ill-breeding. Thus is
spared the after struggle on their part to attain the grace and