temptation dress modestly and live within your income. Vanity is an insatiable passion, and more than anything else leads to dishonesty. Have the true office spirit, solidarity of interest with your employer. Be good-tempered, accommodating, amiable and conciliatory; but set your face like a flint against all that is improper. Be an example of all that is good, and then you may be a reprover of all that is bad. Let there be no affected superiority, no standing on a platfrom of empty dignity; nothing like "Stand by, I am holier than thou"; but by all the sweetness and consistency of unaffected goodness stand straight, and then you may be a blessing indeed to those around you. Another concluding word for your conduct toward those who employ you. Instances which might be multiplied indefinitely prove that caution in this respect is necessary. Men bound by every tie of honor which confiding parents repose in them and by their solemn vow to a wife, have assailed and in many instances destroyed the purity, the peace, and the life of those whom they were in duty bound to protect. Spurn with disdain and indignation any such - attempts receive no special attention from and quit the service of the scoundrel whom you suspect of a design against that which ought to be dearer to you, ten thousand times ten thousand over, than even life itself. THE THE WOMAN WHO FAILS. HE girl who starts out without any practi- cal training: years at school are too apt to forget that the great end of life is to be and to do and not to read about and brood over what other men and women have been and done. Business men are less likely to employ the High School and College graduates because the best results ordinarily are obtained from those of their assistants whose education has been along more practical lines. Many of our young women are so exquisitely cultured as to be good for nothing but to be kept in a show case as specimens of what the most approved systems of education can accomplish. It is exactly to this frame of mind that Shakespeare refers when he speaks of "the native hue of resolution being sicklied o'er with pale caste of thought." There is no force in mere intellectual ability, standing to use a phrase of Edmund Burke's, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical ab straction. 2. The woman who can turn her hand to anything: To achieve success you must pursue some special line, confine yourself to one particular thing—make one thing your specialty, stick to one thing as Mark Twain sticks to the word "thing" in describing the harnessing of horses to a Swiss diligence: "The man stands up the horse on each side of the thing that projects from the front of the wagon and then throws the tangled mess of gear on top the horses, and passes the thing that goes forward through a ring, and hauls it aft and passes the other thing through the other ring, and hauls it aft on the other side of the other horse opposite the first one; after crossing them and bringing the loose ends back, he then buckles the other thing under the horse, and takes another thing and wraps it around the thing |