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Rh said, "My dear boy, I am so glad to hear you say that. She is so bright and witty and the men all seem to admire her so much that I was afraid you would not look at her dress with the eyes of a woman." "No," he answered, "I am not looking at it with the eyes of a woman, I am looking at it with the eyes of a man, and to a man it is a thousand times more offensive than it would be to a woman." Will you just think this over a little bit and conclude whether you are slangy in your dress?

How long do you suppose you will keep women who are refined and intelligent and womanly as friends if you are boisterous, loud, and slangy? Gradually these friends and acquaintances will slip away, and you will discover that, instead of the people who had at one time a deep interest in you, you are surrounded by those whose manners are quite as bad, if not worse than your own, and who only regard you as somebody who affords them "great fun." It will come home to you some day and hurt you when you realize that the girls you liked visit you no longer. After awhile they will begin to bow coolly to you and perhaps not recognise you at all. Wise mothers do not care to surround their daughters with objectionable