The members pledged themselves to try, as far as in them lay, to speak kindly of people when it was possible for them to do so, and when impossible to say nothing.

At first it was hard, for self-conceit would intrude, and it is hard for one girl to praise another who dislikes her.

Little by little the tiny seed of effort grew into a habit of kindly speech.
What volumes it argues for a woman's gentle ladyhood and Christianity when it can truthfully be said of her, "She never speaks uncharitably of anybody!" Let us older people set an example of tolerance and charitable speech.
Too often our children are but reproductions, perhaps somewhat highly colored, of ourselves, our virtues, and our faults.

And this is especially true of the mothers.

John Jarndyce gives us a word of encouragement when he says-- "I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of the mothers shall occasionally be visited upon the children, as well as the sins of the father." Such being the case, let us children of a larger growth show such tact, unselfishness and tender charity, that our children, seeing these virtues, may copy them, and thereby aid in removing the disagreeable traits of, at least, our Young Persons..