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taught a virtue which will serve them in after years, when exposed to the chances of restaurants and a friend's kitchen. A vegetarian is a terrible guest. An Englishman, at a breakfast served in his honor, declined dish after dish. At last the hostess said, "You will try some potatoes?" — "Yes, thanks," was his glad assent; but, as he beheld them baked in their brown coverings, he observed, "I never eat them unless boiled." Two tired ministers were invited to tea at the house of a millionnaire. The weary guests fed on dainty viands and drank water; "for," explained the host, in uncertain tone, "my wife finds that as tea disagrees with her, it must also be of no benefit to others."

Leadership and union in work need liberality, for there can be no hearty acceptance of another's guidance without it. Then the intelligent and the unintelligent, those who are conventional and those who are earnest, can work together for the sake of a common

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