MOMENTARY VIEWS

of those qualities which are universally loved and
respected--gentleness, unselfishness, gladness and peace. Your clothes,
while under twenty-five years of age, should be very neat. Your shirt
should be clean. This does not imply that you are to break extra backs
to keep fresh shirts ready for you, but that you are to make extra
efforts to keep the one you have on unsoiled for a decent length of
time. If your clothes are dark, get in the habit of wearing a black silk
or satin neck-tie and wear it some one way all your life. It helps
people to "place" you. Generally a sack coat makes a very tall man look
shorter, and a frock-coat looks all the better for a change. The clothes
should be loose, so that they will


OCCUPY AS LITTLE OF THE MIND AS POSSIBLE.

The young man who purposely keeps his mind on his fine clothes is lost.
He is a coxcomb. He has no greater influence with the young ladies for
all his fine feathers. Let me leave you selling a large bill,
remembering that civility costs nothing and buys everything, and
feeling that the very perfection of good manners is not to think of
yourself.

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