Finally, be kind and courteous to all, but never servile, nor yet haughty, for the one is quite as bad as the other, and both are hateful in the extreme. If, when you are departing, your host, or hostess, invites you to come again, you may feel justly satisfied that you have succeeded in making that most enviable thing—a good impression. WHAT CAREER FOR TOM? Ay, what was to be done with him? He had just completed his fifteenth year, was famous at cricket and football, rode his bicycle up and down the steepest gradients, was a fearless swimmer, and indeed the athletic paragon of his schoolmates. But he began to tire of his lessons, and to utter dark confidences to his sisters that ‘Latin would be no use to a fellow when he grew up;’ that ‘he felt like a loafer as he went along the lanes to the grammar-school;’ that ‘Sam Jackson and Harry Wilde were going to business at Easter; and that if papa did not find him something to do, he should perhaps run away to sea.’ This last confidence, which was given on a windy night, when the rain plashed most dismally against the windows of the children’s room, quite alarmed Tom’s sisters, who were romantic and tender-hearted girls of seventeen and eighteen. They began to cry, and to beg the indignant lad not to do anything so dreadful. But the more they petitioned, the more stubborn Tom grew. Tears and entreaties only hardened him into firmer determination to doff his mortar-board cap for ever. How _could_ he stay at school, when his chums, Sam Jackson and Harry Wilde, had gone to business! What did girls know of a fellow’s vexation at being left with a lot of young boys, not one of whom could hold a bat or keep a goal! To sea he would go, unless papa got him some sort of a berth by Easter. The poor girls were crying very bitterly, and the rain throbbed in sympathy against the panes, and Tom stamped up and down the floor, when his mamma came in. She was much surprised at the scene; for the children were always on the best of terms. She was still more surprised, and a little dismayed, when she learned the cause of the scene. Being a prudent and self-restraining woman, however, she did not say much; and with a few general remarks, ‘that of course all boys must go to business in due time,’ she terminated the painful discussion.