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When you are packing your trunk try and put in it everything that you will need, so that you will not have to borrow from your hostess. You will require the silk or cotton matching your gowns, your needles, scissors, and thimble, and if you are an adept at artistic needlework I would suggest your doing a pretty piece while you are visiting—one that may be left as a souvenir of your visit with your hostess. You must have with you your own brushes, your letter-paper and pens, and when you open your trunk you must put your things in their proper places, giving them the same care which you would if you were going to be in the house a year instead of a week. Besides your clothes there must be some virtues packed in your trunk, virtues that you will take out and use all the time. One is consideration. You will find that a visitor well equipped with this will be much liked. Another is punctuality, that virtue of kings. And still another is neatness, a dainty little virtue specially adapted to young women. Then, too, there is another little virtue which doesn't always have that name given it, but it certainly is one, and that is pleasant small talk. You want to be able among your friends, when you are out, and most especially at the table, to talk pleasantly on subjects that are