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122 notes because some afternoon you take a walk with some other girl, or because you broke an engagement with her to go out with your mother. You think it is very desirable to be known among your girl friends as "Florence's crush," but if you will take a little trouble and inquire, you will find that you are only one among a number for whom Florence has expressed this great admiration at various times, and to whom she has shown this marvellous devotion. This may last three months or even a year, but great emotions have sudden endings, and some day you will be surprised to get a letter from Florence inclosing the photograph which you gave her, and begging you to return the little locket. That poor little locket! If you have the sense I credit you with you will wonder who the girl is who is going to get it next, for you may be very certain that it will answer for several people.

The great dangers of such intimacies as I have described are that they wean a girl from her best friend, her mother, and that they induce her to be over-confidential and to tell the affairs of her home to one who is not of her own household. Then, too, by mincing up one's love as if it were a piece of citron, and giving a little of it here