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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 292, 31 March 1877, Page 2

There aro some delicate impulses that a good woman cannot resist ; she cannot help putting three hairpins and a spare shoe-string into the first shaving-mug she sees. Women are better than men in this respect. "Mother," said Mary, ."J can't make Henry put h;s figures as I tell him." " Bs patient, my dear, and do not speak so sharply." " But he won't let me tell him how to put his figures', and he does not know how to do it himself," said Mary very pettishly. " Well, my dear, i? Henry won't learn a lesson in figures, suppose you teach him one in patience. This is hard to teaoh, and harder to learn than any lesson in figures ; and perhaps when you have learned this, the other will be easier to both of you." Mary huhg her head, for she felt that it was any little girl to be fretted by such a little thing, or, indeed, by anything, and she began to think that perhaps she to be blamed as well as Henry.