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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 41.

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Affected People.

It is strange that people nearly always fail to be natural when they are in company. They put on a Sunday voice, a good deal like the preacher in the pulpit, and their most intimate friends can hardly recognize them. The most curious part of the affair is that they do not deceive even the people they are trying to impress with their importance. Every one recognizes an affectation, and deep down in the bottom of the heart every one despises it. Note a group on the piazza at a fashionable watering-place, and you will say with Puck, "What fools these mortals be."—Boston Budget.