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avoid those that are difficult to prepare. Never try a new dish when you expect
company. Your guests will be more gratified with a neat and moderate table, with
a few plain and well cooked dishes, accompanied with the smiling countenance of
the hostess, than with a great variety of ill cooked and badly arranged viands.
Economy the Source of Charity.
If your circumstances will not admit of giving away much, you can, by economy,
give a little, and a blessing will attend it. There are few of the very poor,
that know how to repair old clothing to advantage; a garment will be of much
more service, that is well mended before it is given to them.
It has been remarked, that the poor are ungrateful, and forget the favors
conferred upon them.
I have seldom found them deficient in this respect; and when they are, if we
would reflect, that if some of us received no more than we deserve, we should be
but poorly off.
We know in our own families, how acceptable is a nice present of something that
a sick member can eat; and it is sometimes the means of restoring the appetite,
when any thing cooked in the house is rejected. The feeling of love with which
it is presented, is as a cordial to a sick person.
How much more acceptable will something nourishing be to one oppressed with
poverty, as well as sickness.
When the rich are diseased, the physician often finds it necessary to enjoin
strict abstinence; but very different is it with the poor, who frequently suffer
for want of nourishment.
When the mother of a poor family is ill, how greatly are her sufferings
augmented by the knowledge that
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