hen I will call your attention to it and tell
you it is not the right and proper way to do." The student agreed, and
so between the kind intention of the professor and the kind willingness
of the student the embryo statesman was taught an important lesson
without being pained and abashed by his ignorance.

In marked contrast with this incident is one which personally I knew to
happen in a school. A little country girl who had recently become an
inmate of the school knocked at the room of her neighbor, a young lady
who had been brought up amid all the refinements of life, and asked her
if she would lend her her hair-brush. Two or three other girls happened
to be in the room, and this young lady replied, "Hadn't you better ask
me for my tooth-brush? In this school, hair-brushes are private
property." Never did the little country girl forget this rude rebuke,
although she very shortly learned that among cultivated and refined
people hair-brushes are considered private property. But however
cultivated externally the young lady was who thus rudely rebuffed even
the ignorance of her companion, her conduct showed a spirit uncultivated
in gentleness and kindness.

It often happens in schools that some become general favorites because
perhaps they are blessed with good looks, or are able to dress with
good taste and becomingly, or are possessed of a certain piquancy of
manner and conversational powers which attract and entertain. There are
others equally good and talented who are not blessed with comeliness,
who are not bright and winning in conversation, who are awkward in dress
and manner. What kindness and considerateness is due from the more
favored to the less favored! How careful should school-girls, and not
school-girls only, but everybody be to extend courtesy and kindness to
those of their number who are apt to be neglected, to be left lonely and
forgotten while more favored ones enjoy special pleasures! I do not mean
by this that we are to be equally intimate and equally fond of all our
daily associates, but we ought to be equally kind. Our especial
endearments and kindnesses and attentions to our particular friends
ought to be in a measure kept for private expression, so that we may not
wound the feelings of those less attractive, or less endowed with bodily
and mental graces, by contrast or comparison.

To aid us in cultivating this spirit of kindness, no maxim is more
useful than that laid down by Christ: "Whatsoe