WHATELY'S TABLE TALK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 1 October 1891, Page 4

WHATELY'S TABLE TALK.

If you fight with a chimney sweeper, whether you or he are the victor, you are equally certain toget smutted.

Never let any one force a secret on you. If a communication is made to you, and the person afterwards adds, " Now, you won't tell this to any one," the^right answer should be—" I shall act as I think best."

If you want to know how to train children, ask a gamekeeper how he trains his dogs, and you will gain many good suggestions. Do not ask the same man how he trains his children, for ten to one he will act with them on a totally opposite plan. In England truth lies, as the proverb says, at the bottom of a well ; it is hard to reach, but when you do get at it, it is clear. In Ireland it lies at the bottom of a bog; when you get it to the light it is muddy and obscured.

Archbishop Whately often introduced into later publications the same matter he had already given in the earlier ones, altering the form, or at least the wording a little, of the remarks. In so doing he compared himseli to a renowned French cook, who, on findin" his master had not liked some dish on which he had prided himself, exclaimed. "Milord does not know what is good ! By gar, he shall eat it ! I will make him !" And accordingly he produced the dish again and :isain, disguised with various seasonings, till the whole had been eaten by his master. "And so," he said/ 1 I serve up a truth in different forms, and make the public swallow it one way or another."

The way to cure out* prejudices is this— that evary man should let alono those that lie complains of In othiri, and Bxamint bis