true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.