Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1870 — Social Honor. [ARTICLE]

Social Honor.

Evniy person should cultivate a nice sense oChonor. In a hundred different ways this most fitting adjunct of the true lady or gentleman is often tried.. For instance,is a guest in a family' where, e domestic machinery does not run smoothly. There is a sorrow in the hoifee'Unsuspected by the outer world, bometimes it is a dissipated son,‘whose conduct is a shame and grief to his parents; sometimes a relative whose eccentricities and peculiarities are a cloud on the home. Or, worst of all, husband and wife may not be in accord, and theremay be often bitter words spoken, and harsh recrimimutons. In any of these casps the giiest fs in honor bound to be blind and deaf, so far as pqople without are concerned. If a gentle word within can do any good, it may well be said, but to reveal the shadow of an unhappy -georet tb any one, even your nearpst friend, is an act of indelicacy and, meanness almost unparjulleled. Ones in the precipots of any honje, admitted, to Jits, privacy,Wring ite life, all that you see and hear is a sajired. trust. It is as raejlyjcontemptible to gossip of such things as it would be to steal the silwir or borrow the books and forget to return than.—