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ABOUT PEOPLE.

ing that they mean to offer themselves to-morrow.

Amidst the comfortable old families, who were merely born and have never risen nor fallen, a quiet laugh circulates when people like circus-dancers desire to leap through one paper circle to another, forgetting the débris they leave behind. Hundreds of persons are fortunately so far advanced that they believe a home is "good form." Society belles often marry ministers, in their efforts to embrace noble ideals. So there is reason to believe that true values will at last be estimated aright. Where there is real kindness and tact both men and women are less mindful of their social position. Agreeableness, whether in artist, editor, wholesale jobber and clerk, will make its own way, and mere exclusiveness on the score of pedigree, must, in time, yield to those who have a full mind, a noble heart, and a kindly wit.

It is said that those who are sure of the

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