other fopperies. Get you gone, you rascal, I will immediately send you to the house of correction." Away went George as fast as he could, and having changed his dress he returned to the deanery, where he was received with the greatest cordiality. "My friend George," said the Dean, "I am glad to see you returned safe from London. Why, there has been an impudent fellow just with me dressed in lace waistcoat, and he would fain pass himself off for you, but I soon sent him away with a flea in his ear." Dress is certainly an index to the mind. It shows the spirit and internal quality of the soul, and "there cannot be a more evident gross manifestation of a poor, degenerate breeding, than a rude, unpolished, disordered and slovenly outside." The boy that does not polish his shoes, comb his hair, brush his clothes, is in all probability morally affected. To consider such things matters of small importance is a grave mistake, for they often prove to be hinges on which the doors of opportunity swing. THE BOY'S RECOMMENDATION. Said a friend to a business man on coming into the office, "I should like to know on what ground you selected that boy, who had not a single recommendation." "You are mistaken," said the gentleman, "he had a great many. He wiped his feet when he came in and closed the door after him, showing that he was careful; he gave his seat instantly to that lame old man, showing that he was thoughtful; he took off his cap when he came in, and answered my questions promptly, showing that he was gentlemanly; he waited quietly for his turn, instead of pushing and crowding, showing that he was honorable and orderly. When I talked to him I noticed that his clothes were brushed, his hair in order, and when he wrote his name, I noticed that his finger-nails were clean. Don't you call those things letters of recommendation? I do, and I would give more for what I can tell about a boy by using my eyes ten minutes than all the letters he can bring me.' Be neat and clean in appearance, and not less so in habit. At home never throw your hat in one chair and your coat in another. Have a place for everything and put everything in its place. In school or at work let the same principle govern you, for "what is worth doing is worth doing well." The boys now wanted are "Boys of neatness, boys of will, Boys of muscle, brain and power, For to cope with anything These are wanted every hour." C INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER II BY ADOLPH SUTRO Conduct is three-fourths of life.-Matthew Arnold. HARACTER makes the man; character and politeness mark the perfect man. The first is the diamond in the rough; the second the cut stone. The former may attract the attention of a few, the latter discloses hidden beauties and compels the admiration of all. The "grand old name of gentleman" can belong only to him who unites the qualities of gentleness and manliness, and politeness is essentially gentleness. The exercise of politeness benefits all, chiefly him who practises it, and this is a sure road to success. Arbe |