She doesn't cover up one's deficiencies, but gives them an equal showing with one's handsomer qualities.

Of course I made the remark which she has quoted--and even at this distant day I am still as much as half persuaded that if that lady had been present when the Creator said, "Let there be light," she would have interrupted Him and we shouldn't ever have got it.
_From Susy's Biography._ Papa said the other day, "I am a mugwump and a mugwump is pure from the marrow out." (Papa knows that I am writing this biography of him, and he said this for it.) He doesn't like to go to church at all, why I never understood, until just now, he told us the other day that he couldn't bear to hear any one talk but himself, but that he could listen to himself talk for hours without getting tired, of course he said this in joke, but I've no dought it was founded on truth.
MARK TWAIN.
(_To be Continued._) NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW No.

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NOVEMBER 2, 1906..