our clothes are dark, get in the habit of wearing a black silk
or satin neck-tie and wear it some one way all your life. It helps
people to "place" you. Generally a sack coat makes a very tall man look
shorter, and a frock-coat looks all the better for a change. The clothes
should be loose, so that they will

OCCUPY AS LITTLE OF THE MIND AS POSSIBLE.

The young man who purposely keeps his mind on his fine clothes is lost.
He is a coxcomb. He has no greater influence with the young ladies for
all his fine feathers. Let me leave you selling a large bill,
remembering that civility costs nothing and buys everything, and
feeling that the very perfection of good manners is not to think of
yourself.

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ECONOMY.

Behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
--I Kings, XVIII, 44.

Franklin says that, if you know how to spend less than
you get, you have the philosopher's stone. Cicero, many hundreds of
years before Ben Franklin said: "Economy is of itself a great revenue,"
and another Roman writer put it still better when he said: "There is no
gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have."
"Beware of small expenses," again writes Franklin; "a small leak will
sink a great ship." In our large cities there are thousands of servant
girls earning from two and a half to three dollars a week. The men who
employ them often get from twenty-five to one hundred dollars per week,
yet it is a notorious fact that the prudent servant girl usually has
more money at her command, clear of all debts, than her employer, whose
expenses scrape very closely against his income. Now you are on a salary
in a store. Perhaps that salary is yours, to spend as you see fit. If
so, remember that, like the highest officer in the land, you have
certain duties. If you were President you could not appoint your old
schoolmate Secretary of State unless he had made as much progress in
politics as yourself. So, too,

IN YOUR MONEY MATTERS,

you cannot make yourself so valuable to your employer that he will not,
before he advances you, inquire into your personal expenses, and find
out what you do with your money. If you have spent it, year after year,
as fast as you could get it, he will have great misgivings about letting
you into a position where your desire to distribute currency can
possibly lead you to practice on his funds. Among the easy ways to spend
money in a small town i