r false jewelry, like
other forms of falsehood, is vulgar. Wearing many cheap decorations is a
serious fault. {87}

8. If a man wears a ring it should be on the third finger of the left hand.
This is the only piece of jewelry a man is allowed to wear that does not
serve a purpose.

9. Wearing imitations of diamonds is always in very bad taste.

10. Every man looks better in a full beard it he keeps it well trimmed. If
a man shaves he should shave at least every other day, unless he is in the
country.

11. The finger-nails should be kept cut, and the teeth should be cleaned
every morning, and kept clear from tartar. A man who does not keep his
teeth clean does not look like a gentleman when he shows them.

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Dress.

We sacrifice to dress, till household joys
And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry,
And keeps our larder lean. Puts out our fires,
And introduces hunger, frost and woe,
Where peace and hospitality might reign.--COWPER.

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[Illustration]

1. GOD IS A LOVER OF DRESS.--We cannot but feel that God is a lover of
dress. He has put on robes of beauty and glory upon all his works. Every
flower is dressed in richness; every field blushes beneath a mantle of
beauty; every star is veiled in brightness; every bird is clothed in the
{89} habiliments of the most exquisite taste. The cattle upon the thousand
hills are dressed by the hand divine. Who, studying God in his works, can
doubt, that he will smile upon the evidence of correct taste manifested by
his children in clothing the forms he has made them?

2. LOVE OF DRESS.--To love dress is not to be a slave of fashion; to love
dress only is the test of such homage. To transact the business of charity
in a silken dress, and to go in a carriage to the work, injures neither the
work nor the worker. The slave of fashion is one who assumes the livery of
a princess, and then omits the errand of the good human soul; dresses in
elegance, and goes upon no good errand, and thinks and does nothing of
value to mankind.

3. BEAUTY IN DRESS.--Beauty in dress is a good thing, rail at it who may.
But it is a lower beauty, for which a higher beauty should not be
sacrificed. They love dresses too much who give it their first thought,
their best time, or all their money; who for it neglect the culture of
their mind or heart, or the claims of others on their service; w