In every girl's creed there must be some negative. The _law_ says you must and you must not. As she reads this page perhaps some girl will stop for a moment and write out the things to which she believes a girl should say "no." Here is such a list, written in the form of a creed by a girl when a sophomore at college. "I believe that a girl should not indulge in amusements which make her nervous and excited, give her a headache, make it hard for her to study, cost her a good deal of money and crowd out all thoughts of duty and which make her feel envious and jealous of those who are more popular or fortunate than she, and sometimes make her think things she hates to remember. I believe that a girl should _never_ repeat what she has heard about another person if it could in any way injure that person's character. I believe that she should not lie even by looks or by silence. I believe that she should never deceive another, never make fun of the weaknesses or misfortunes of other people and never treat another girl as she would not herself want to be treated." This is a negative creed. It does not say _do_, it says _don't_, but there are times when every girl needs _Don't_. Put _don't_ into your own creed, you girls who are thinking over these things. When you are tempted to lose your head and plunge into things you have been taught are wrong, just because "_everybody_" that mysterious mischief maker, is doing these things, keep steady and _Don't_. When you are tempted to make things more comfortable, more interesting, more exciting by exaggeration--Don't. When you are tempted to escape by a lie the consequences of what you have said or done--_Don't_. When you are tempted to let envy or jealousy find expression in words or acts of meanness and unkindness--_Don't_. When you are tempted to repeat a story or say a daring thing you would not say in the presence of the one whose respect you desire--_Don't_. When you are tired of the struggle to be true and do right, tired of the effort to seek always the best things and are tempted to give up--_Don't_. When you are tempted to repay injustice with revenge, unkindness with cruelty, jealousy with malice, to do to others as they do to you--_Don't_. Learn the power of control, of _restraint_ and though it be only the negative side of religion, it will help to make you strong. When the instructor in religion opens his eyes and sees the peril which lies in wait for the girl wage earner, the society girl and even the schoolgirl, what he is forced to see makes him say with a passionate cry from his soul, as he thinks of the individual girls whom he knows and loves, "_Thou shall not_." XIV THOU SHALT