We have no right to waste our own time, girls, and certainly we have no right to waste that of other people. To do so is most thoughtless and unkind. If you are in a class, your unpunctuality may inconvenience and disturb all the others, and very much annoy your teacher. If you are on a committee, and come late to the place of meeting, you throw every one else out of her orbit. People have many engagements in a single day. They can keep none of them to advantage if they are hindered by the careless person who does not keep hers conscientiously. This whole matter of keeping engagements is one in which you must establish good habits. Never promise to go anywhere, or do anything, to make a visit, or take a table at a fair, or help a friend who needs assistance, and then break your word. A girl's word is a sacred thing. If it is only to sit for an hour with an older friend, or to take luncheon and a walk with Jenny on Saturday, or to write a letter for the cook, who cannot write her letter for herself, keep your word and be on time. Nothing else is worthy such a girl as the one I have in my mind while I write, so clever and sensible, and, in the main, so satisfactory that I cannot bear her to have even one little flaw. I don't want to think of her as one of those people who come hustling into church and Sunday-school ten minutes late, and who disturb everybody else in places of amusement by the same habit. And I cannot imagine one of my girls as, by-and-by, going anywhere late to dinner, a most grievous social fault. [Illustration: Signature] ADVERTISEMENTS. The Columbia Bicycle Pad Calendar For 1896 [Illustration] YOU NEED IT. A Desk Calendar is a necessity--most convenient kind of storehouse for memoranda. The Columbia Desk Calendar is brightest and handsomest of all--full of dainty pen sketches and entertaining thoughts on outdoor exercise and sport. Occasionally reminds you of the superb quality of Columbia Bicycles and of your need of one. You won't object to that, of course. The Calendar will be mailed for five 2-cent stamps. Address Calendar Department, POPE MANUFACTURING CO., HARTFORD, CONN. [Illustration] There are monarchs, there are monarchs, Men of every clime and hue. From the Czar of all the Russias To the Prince of Timbuctoo; Monarchs good and monarchs famous, Monarchs short and monarchs tall; But the _best_ is _our_ Monarch-- It's the Monarch of them all. Monarch King of Bicycles--A Marvel of Strength, Speed and Reliability. 4 models. $80 and $100, fully guaranteed. For children and adults who want a lower price wheel the _Defiance_ is made in 8 models, $40 to $75. Send for Monarch book. [Illustration] MONARCH CYCLE MFG. CO., Lake, Halsted and Fulton Sts., CHICAGO. 83 Reade Street, New York. JOSEPH GILLOTT'S STEEL PENS Nos. 303, 404, 170, 604 E.F., 601 E.F. And other styles to suit all hands. THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS. Postage Stamps, &c. 50%