their bread for the most part
at the baker's; so that in many families the good old art of
bread-making is almost forgotten. Then it must be said that it is the
exception rather than the rule when one finds really good home-made
bread. This is a great pity.

Now, let me add one hint for the benefit of the girls. In the English
language there is no nobler word than _Lady_. But go back to its
origin, and what do we find that it means? We find that it means _She
that looks after the loaf_.

WISE SAYINGS

Shallow men believe in luck; strong men in pluck.

If there is honor among thieves, they stole it.

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and
place.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make
it.

You will always find those men the most forward to do good, or to
improve the times, who are always busy.

Trifles make perfection, yet perfection is no trifle.

LESSON L

COUNTENANCE AND CHARACTER

We know men by their looks; we read men by looking at their faces--not
at their features, their eyes, their lips, because God made these; but
a certain cast of motion, and shape and expression, which their
features have acquired. It is this that we call the countenance.

And what makes this countenance? The inward and mental habits; the
constant pressure of the mind; the perpetual repetition of its acts.
You detect at once a conceited, or foolish person. It is stamped on
his countenance. You can see on the faces of the cunning or
dissembling, certain corresponding lines, traced on the face as legibly
as if they were written there.

As it is with the countenance, so it is with the character. Character
is the sum total of all our actions. It is the result of the habitual
use we have been making of our intellect, heart and will. We are
always at work, like the weaver at the loom. So we are always forming
a character for ourselves. It is a plain truth, that everybody grows
up in a certain character; some good, some bad, some excellent, and
some unendurable. Every character is formed by habits. If a man is
habitually proud, or vain, or false, he forms for himself a character
like in kind.

The character shows itself outwardly, but it is wrought within. Every
habit is a chain of acts, and every one of those acts was a free link
of the will. For instance, some people are habitually false. We
sometimes meet with men whose word we can