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Rh two little services you must surely pay for them. Remember that you are to be a pleasure and not an expense, and therefore when little jaunts are got up, or outings are arranged, you must take the trouble to find out whether each one is paying for herself, and if that is the arrangement, then insist upon your hostess letting you pay your share. A great many pleasant friends have been lost through lack of thought in regard to money matters, and many women would entertain much more if it were not that the visitors themselves were such a heavy monetary expense.

Another something about which you must not make a mistake is your morning manner; you must come to the breakfast -table neatly dressed, with your hair properly arranged, greet everybody pleasantly, and, no matter how you may feel, impress your friends with the fact that you are happy. Then, too, try not to see or hear the unpleasant words that are sometimes spoken in the family circle, and religiously close your eyes to whatever is disagreeable, forcing yourself to forget, so that it may be impossible for you ever to go away and speak of that which happened while you were under the roof of someone who had been kind to you.