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

A thought which slumbers in the mind has within it the germ of life. At
any moment when the right stimuli have been given, it may spring into
conscious being and find expression in action that will color the entire
life. While it slumbers today, tomorrow may bring the waking moment and
so it must be reckoned with in the formation of character. Still it
lacks the positive element. It is limited.

It becomes the work of those interested in the welfare of the girl to
cause the awakening and constant stimulation of those thoughts which
shall lead to action along right lines. The repeated impression upon the
mind of deeds of heroism, of unselfish daily living, of great action on
the part of ordinary people in a common-place environment has an
unmistakable effect upon the forming cha