ll energy in
his business pursuits, then is it time to gently, but firmly, repel
all nearer advances on his part.

As to the gentleman, it will be well for him also to watch carefully
as to the disposition of the lady and her conduct in her own family.
If she be attentive and respectful to her parents, kind and
affectionate toward her brothers and sisters, not easily ruffled in
temper and with inclination to enjoy the pleasures of home; cheerful,
hopeful and charitable in disposition, then may he feel, indeed, that
he has a prize before him well worth the winning.

If, however, she should display a strong inclination towards
affectation and flirtation; be extremely showy or else careless in her
attire, frivolous in her tastes and eager for admiration, he may
rightly conclude that very little home happiness is to be expected
from her companionship.

Trifling.

A true gentleman will never confine his attentions exclusively to one
lady unless he has an intention of marriage. To do so exposes her to
all manner of conjecture, lays an embargo on the formation of other
acquaintances, may very seriously compromise her happiness, and by
after withdrawal frequently causes her the severest mortification.
Hence a gentleman with no thought of marriage is in honor bound to
make his attentions to ladies as general as possible.

Still more reprehensible is the conduct of the man who insinuates
himself into the affections of a young girl by every protestation and
avowal possible, save that which would be binding upon himself, and
then withdraws his attentions with the boastful consciousness that he
has not committed himself.

Again, the young lady who willfully, knowingly, deliberately, draws on
a man to place hand and heart at her disposal simply for the pleasure
of refusing him and thus adding one more name to her list of rejected
proposals, is utterly unworthy the name of woman.

Etiquette of Making and Receiving Gifts.

On the question of gifts there is a point of etiquette to be observed.
Gentlemen, as a rule, do not offer ladies presents, save of fruits,
flowers, or confections; which gifts, notwithstanding that a small
fortune may be lavished upon their purchase, are supposed, in all
probability from their perishable character, to leave no obligation
resting upon the lady.

Should the conversation, however, turn upon some new book or musical
composition, which the lady has not seen, the gentleman may, with
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