If I were you, and other things . ra-tion and condemnation of others. Point 9—Dress and dress an indication of the moral standardsof the wearer? A woman, holding a position of great in-fluence, said in my hearing, I am almostashamed that Miss Blanks personal untidi-ness so often comes first to my mind as Ithink of her. I have to use a real force ofwill and make myself rehearse her fine qual-ities and points of strength in order to pre-vent my condemnation from coming unjustlyto the front. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the appar
If I were you, and other things . ra-tion and condemnation of others. Point 9—Dress and dress an indication of the moral standardsof the wearer? A woman, holding a position of great in-fluence, said in my hearing, I am almostashamed that Miss Blanks personal untidi-ness so often comes first to my mind as Ithink of her. I have to use a real force ofwill and make myself rehearse her fine qual-ities and points of strength in order to pre-vent my condemnation from coming unjustlyto the front. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man. —Shakespeare. Point 10—Dress—a factor in personal power,I quote from Ruskin: What woman is to be within her gates, as the center of order, the balm of distress, and [49] %i 91 Wttt J^ott the mirror of beauty; that she is also to bewithout her gates, where order is more dif-ficult, distress more imminent, loveliness more [50] Cmtl^ 0, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil! — WISH to contend that themind is so made that, inits normal action, it mustprefer the true to the false,just as a bird prefers thepure air of the heights tothe noxious gases of the does the normal mind thus preferveracity ? First—For reasons of practical is foolishness as well as sin. Someone says that a liar should have a wondrousaccurate memory! And it is Oliver WendellHolmes who writes, Sin has many tools, buta lie is the handle which fits them gives us a hint here when he says, If you would not be known to do a thing,never do it. Second—For economic reasons. Business iscarried on upon a basis of truth. The cus-toms of civilized society have educated theindividual mind to the obligation of ] gif 3j wtvt gou We note the truth of this when we reflectupon the credit system; the use of cheques;deeds; all forms of business —Beneath these prudential and eco-nomic considerations, lies
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