be
considered insulting. Not until he is engaged to her may a man offer
expensive presents. This rule, it is lamentably true, is often violated by
a certain order of young persons, who rather boast of the gifts of their
gallants, and are thus the object of rather unkind criticism.

As a rule, a girl makes a mistake when she sends a gift to a young man. It
is generally something that is as superfluous to him as a fifth wheel to a
wagon, and it entails an irksome sense of obligation. It is presumed, if
he has been very courteous and shown her many attentions, that it has been
his pleasure to do so, and her gracious acceptance and pleasure in them is
sufficient reward. A girl may give Christmas and birthday gifts to her
fiance, but he should not give her any article of wearing apparel except
gloves.

The Telephone.--A girl should be chary of calling up her young men
acquaintances by telephone. If forced to do so, she should make her
communication as brief as possible. It is annoying to a young man to be
called from his business to answer social or "nonsense" calls--the latter
when some idle, ennuied or "smitten" girl takes a notion she would like to
chatter to somebody awhile. It exasperates an employer to have his men
called from their duties to answer such calls, and fellow employees are
likely to "guy" the man about his "mash." The "note habit" is just about
as bad, though not quite as annoying, as the telephone habit, because a
man can carry such missives in his pocket unopened.

A wise girl will not give her photograph to any young man until she is
engaged to him. What nice girl would care to see her picture neighbored by
ballet dancers and footlight favorites in a young man's rooms! She will be
equally careful about corresponding with men, writing to but a few
intimate and long-known friends, making her letters bright and gay, but
carefully avoiding any warmer expressions of regard than those warranted
by the friendship. Many a girl has bitterly regretted the affectionate
missives sent to some young man who made "werry fierce love" to her for a
time, and whose regard afterward cooled. When the man she truly loves
comes along, she would give her most precious jewel to get those letters
into her hands again. It is a great deal safer not to write them.

A young woman, receiving back her letters at the close of a mistaken
engagement, once said:

"I sat down on the floor and read them over, and I tell you I was prou