Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1891 — Learning social Diplomacy. [ARTICLE]

Learning social Diplomacy.

One of the secretaries of the Chinese Embassy in Washington has shown himself apt in the a<, of compliment. He was introduced to a lady who, gmong other questions, asked him: ‘ What virtue do you most highly prize tn your woman?” “The virtue of domesticity,” was the reply. “Thei you do not like your women to move in society much?” she questioned. “Not at all. Our law even recognizes it as a cause for divorce when a woman—pardon me, madam —is inquisitive and talkative.” “Then I should be in danger of being divorced if I lived in China?” smilingly asked the ladv. “The very day that my country would have the luck to possess a womanly being like you,” replied the gallant son of the heavenly realm, “every cause of divorce would be removed from the world.”

Temperance is a virtue which casts the truest luster upon the person it is lodged in, and has the most general influence upon all other particular virtues of any that the soul of man is capable of; indeed, so general that there is hardly any noble quality or endowment of the mind but must own temperance either for its parent or its nurse; it is the greatest strengthener and clearer of reason, and the best preparer of it for religion, the sister of prudence, and the handmaid of devotion. » Thb whippings a man receives on the outside never hurt him as much as the whippings he receives on the iuside.