Do not esteem your boy friends for the amount of money they spend on
your entertainment. Happiness does not consist of lobster-suppers and
taxi-rides to the theatre. Ten cents will bring just as much real
happiness as ten dollars spent for mere display.
Be modest, girls; it is your greatest asset.
Don't gossip or belittle other girls. Find the good you can say of
others; that quality makes you more attractive.
Watch out for candied words and flattery; these things mark the
hypocrite, and a hypocrite is an abomination. Flattery is a practiced
deceit--a dishonorable bait to catch affections.
Do not allow any young man to relate a story in your presence that has
the slightest risque turn to it.
Show by your words and your actions that such presumption is an insult.
Be square with yourself; be square to the man who is after your heart.
Put yourself mentally in the place of a wife when a man gets serious.
[Sidenote: The Right Man.]
Don't hurry, girls; don't judge the man by his money prospects but by
his character and ambition. Have nothing to do with any young suitor who
isn't always kind, considerate and attentive to his mother. And when
real love comes to you and you decide to marry, marry a man of character
who courts you in the sweet, simple, old way.
If a young man spends money extravagantly before marriage, hard times
will always be around during his married life.
The most precious possessions in the world are happiness and love, and
these come from simple things, genuineness, and usefulness.
The painted, powdered, tinsel, fluff, feathers and furbelow girl may be
a dashing creature now, and you may envy her, but you, with your quiet,
sweet, simple, sensible ways--you will win real love, real respect, real
affection, real pleasures, real satisfaction, in all the days to come;
you will make a success of your life.
Frills and feathers may have an attraction for the girl who makes a
fizzle of her life, but sweetness and simplicity, sentiment and sense,
are precious jewels that will endure for all time.
[Sidenote: The Road to Unhappiness.]
The world is full of new-fashioned, slangy, dancy, fancy, foolish girls
who marry for style, stunts and society, and their married life is
failure, worry and regret. They do not realize, poor things, until it is
too late, that money and luxury are not enough to bring happiness. When
this truth comes home to them, there is nothing left but disillusion,
heartache and sorrow.
Be the golden, pure, old-fashioned, sweet, simple, quiet, modest girl
who knows things, rather than one who is a show-off girl.
When the right young man comes along, he will recognize the kind of girl
you are when he meets you. He will see in you a girl of pure gold; a
sweet, natural, sensible girl, who will be a helpmate to him and not a
drawback.
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