Now that the time for summer outings has arrived, and we are absorbed in plans for going and doing, we want to remember, as we arrange for our own comfort and pleasure, the lives outside with which ours come in contact. What can we say and do that will be helpful to another? What should we leave unsaid?
Many kindly things will suggest themselves to be done, many words or acts suppressed that might cause pain. Charity for faults will "cover a multitude," and grace — the willingness to do things lovingly — be hourly exercised.
Yet there is one failing many unconsciously indulge in to the weariness and distress of their hearers, which if realized as a failing would often be restricted, viz., the tendency to speak of one's physical ailments.
