serviceable and more
elaborate costumes. She should, however, give the same impression of
neatness and businesslike serviceableness, with the additional
artistic impression which is going to show her customer that she knows
how to bring out the telling points in her own personality, and create
a charming effect.

The housewife needs, in her choice of morning garments, the same
effectiveness as the business woman, for she must also work with real
efficiency; but, in addition, she needs to give the impression of
homelike abandon, as well as beauty and grace, which shall appear
restful.

The art of correct speech and intelligent conversation is one which
every one who wishes to hold an envied place in society should
possess. There is no more attractive accomplishment. Others have only
a limited use and give only an occasional pleasure, while good
conversation is appropriate to almost any occasion, and amuses and
entertains when all other interests have palled.

If one does not undertake to cultivate the art of conversation, one
should at least be correct in speech. One should not permit slovenly
expressions, or slang, or the thousand and one faults of
mispronunciation and ungrammatical construction into which people
fall, to be characteristic of one's speaking. For if one has time to
go into society, one should have time and money enough to make one's
self presentable mentally as well as physically, and nothing so
clearly shows lack of intelligence and appreciation of the matters of
the intellect, as carelessness and neglect of the words one uses and
the thoughts one utters. No physical defect is more glaring than the
mental defect revealed in every sentence of such a person.

Mannerisms of speech or act are glaring flaws in the personality which
would delight to charm, and successfully preclude the possibility of
popularity among refined people. Many a man and woman of character
have been barred from the pleasurable enjoyment of society, even by
people of less character though of more surface refinement than
themselves, because they lacked the intelligence and the good sense to
abolish certain mannerisms of act or expression, which, though they
may have had normal and logical causes, were not such as society could
enjoy or approve, and would not tend to anything but harm if
characteristic of many people.

Certain rather glaring faults are quite conspicuous among all classes
of women, for reasons which are hard to