CHAPTER XVI.
THE ART OF LIVING.
Art of living exemplified--Taste an economist--Contrasts in cottage life--Difference in workmen--Living at home--Home and comfort--Comfortable people--Beneficence of house thrift--Organization and method--Industry and punctuality--Management of temper--Good manners--Habitual politeness--French manners--Happiness in good manners--Amusement--Relaxation--Influence of music--Household elegance--Elegance of flowers--Common enjoyments--Portraits of great men--Art at home--Final art of living.

Pages 358--378 INDEX 379 A FABLE.
A grasshopper, half starved with cold and hunger, came to a well-stored beehive at the approach of winter, and humbly begged the bees to relieve his wants with a few drops of honey.
One of the bees asked him how he had spent his time all the summer, and why he had not laid up a store of food like them.
"Truly." said he, "I spent my time very merrily, in drinking, dancing, and singing, and never once thought of winter." "Our plan is very different," said the bee; "we work hard in the summer, to lay by a store of food against the season when we foresee we shall want it; but those who do nothing but drink, and dance, and sing in the summer, must expect to starve in the winter." THRIFT..