A guot's first duty, noino people think, is to llatler his ln»t's children, especially if the host is an exalted [icrsonage. lint this was not so in tho.-e ancient times when children were to lie seen, not heard, according to a story told on himself by the Karl of Aberdeen. When lie was a child, Ihe eclfbrofcd orator John Bright paid the household a visit. "I recollect." say* the- Eurl, "that, with a frclin? Hint the jnc.-encn ni an eminent ix-r-onajc ought to bo marked by some special observance, 1 volniitwpd to voeiip sonic vei'Ms to him. His commendation was. so justly lc-erved that 1 wa;- novur strain tempted to l'eptiit tho wpinimont..'' The cool reception did not at all lessen tho child'it rcsjiwi for the sroat Quaker
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1360, 10 February 1912, Page 8
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128Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1360, 10 February 1912, Page 8
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