KIND INQUIRIES.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin, —Your article on " Kind Inquiries " reminds me of a story I read some time ago of a little girl who was invited to a children's party by her mother's district visitor. Beforo setting off her mother admonished her to mind her manners, with the parting injunction, " Mind you be'ave like a little lidy." The child was the first to arrive, so she had an oppor- tunity of putting her mother's admonition into practice, and as her hostess was the only lady she knew she did her best to copy her. So she began : " How many children have you? Is your husband out of work? I hope he does not drink. Is your rent paid up? Have you been obliged to pawn anything lately? I hope you go regularly to church." It is said that "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." It is doubtful if this horrified hostess felt flattered, but it may have been a lesson to her.—
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