ocial privileges? Do
you know anything? What kind of coin do you propose to pay in the discharge
of the obligation which comes upon you with social recognition? In other
words, as a return for what you wish to have society do for you, what can
you do for society? This is a very important question--more important to
you than to society. The question is, whether you will be a member of
society by right, or by courtesy. If you have so mean a spirit as to be
content to be a beneficiary of society--to receive favors and to confer
none--you have no business in the society to which you aspire. You are an
exacting, conceited fellow.

5. WHAT ARE YOU GOOD FOR?--Are you a good beau, and are you willing to make
yourself useful in waiting on the {67} ladies on all occasions? Have you a
good set of teeth, which you are willing to show whenever the wit of the
company gets off a good thing? Are you a true, straightforward, manly
fellow, with whose healthful and uncorrupted nature it is good for society
to come in contact? In short, do you possess anything of any social value?
If you do, and are willing to impart it, society will yield itself to your
touch. If you have nothing, then society, as such, owes you nothing.
Christian philanthropy may put its arm around you, as a lonely young man,
about to spoil for want of something, but it is very sad and humiliating
for a young man to be brought to that. There are people who devote
themselves to nursing young men, and doing them good. If they invite you to
tea, go by all means, and try your hand. If, in the course of the evening,
you can prove to them that your society is desirable, you have won a point.
Don't be patronized.

6. THE MORBID CONDITION.--Young men, you are apt to get into a morbid state
of mind, which declines them to social intercourse. They become devoted to
business with such exclusiveness, that all social intercourse is irksome.
They go out to tea as if they were going to jail, and drag themselves to a
party as to an execution. This disposition is thoroughly morbid, and to be
overcome by going where you are invited, always, and with a sacrifice of
feeling.

7. THE COMMON BLUNDER.--Don't shrink from contact with anything but bad
morals. Men who affect your unhealthy minds with antipathy, will prove
themselves very frequently to be your best friends and most delightful
companions. Because a man seems uncongenial to you, who are squeamish and
foolish, you have no right to