in each hand and resting on the table while he masticated his food. The
professor quelled the rising laughter among his fellow-students by a
firm glance of reproof, but said nothing to Daniel. He had observed
that the boy was sensitive, and he now had the problem before him how he
should correct this awkwardness in Daniel without wounding his feelings;
and he took the following method: Calling one of the senior boarders to
him before the next meal, he said: "We want to break our young friend of
his awkward way of holding his knife and fork, and we don't want to hurt
his feelings. Now I want you, at supper to-night, to hold your knife and
fork the same way, and then I will call your attention to it and tell
you it is not the right and proper way to do." The student agreed, and
so between the kind intention of the professor and the kind willingness
of the student the embryo statesman was taught an important lesson
without being pained and abashed by his ignorance.

In marked contrast with this incident is one which personally I knew to
happen in a school. A little country girl who had recently become an
inmate of the school knocked at the room of her neighbor, a young lady
who had been brought up amid all the refinements of life, and asked her
if she would lend her her hair-brush. Two or three other girls happened
to be in the room, and this young lady replied, "Hadn't you better ask
me for my tooth-brush? In this school, hair-brushes are private
property." Never did the little country girl forget this rude rebuke,
although she very shortly learned that among cultivated and refined
people hair-brushes are considered private property. But however
cultivated externally the young lady was who thus rudely rebuffed even
the ignorance of her companion, her conduct showed a spirit uncultivated
in gentleness and kindness.

It often happens in schools that some become general favorites because