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Rh for each other. A slighting word, a rude gesture, or an impolite action has done more to break love than all the unfaithfulness or change of heart that ever existed. A great break can be healed, but a thousand little ones can only result in total destruction. I call on you, if you want to retain your sweetheart, to remember this.

It is undoubtedly pleasant to receive presents from those we love, and usually a girl's sweetheart enjoys giving to her. But many a young man has, because of his love, been more generous than just, by giving the girl he loved gifts that he could not afford. For this reason the wise maiden will refuse to accept, even from her sweetheart, gifts of great value, and when she comes to know all his affairs she may show greater wisdom by refusing to take anything of greater worth than a flower or a few sweets. Every girl loves a pretty ring, and for this reason many a man has gone into debt to give to the girl of his heart a diamond ring, which he could not afford, but which she seemed to yearn for. Personally, I think it in much better taste for a girl to have a very simple engagement ring, a gold loveknot or a blue enamelled one being really more appropriate for the engagement than a ring set with precious stones. There is a certain vulgarity in the wearing of jewels by young girls, and