the removal of tonsils and adenoids, and "read up" on
the subject so that you can discuss it in an intelligent manner. Find
out, for example, how many people had tonsils removed in February,
March, April. Contrast this with the same figures for 1880, 1890, 1900.
Learn two or three amusing anecdotes about adenoids. Consult Bartlett's
"Familiar Quotations" for appropriate verses dealing with tonsils and
throat troubles. Finally, and above all, take time to glance through
four or five volumes of Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, for nothing so
completely marks the cultivated man as the ability to refer familiarly
to the various volumes of the Harvard classics.

A PROPER CALL

Promptly at the time appointed you should arrive at the house where the
young lady is staying. In answer to your ring a German police dog will
begin to bark furiously inside the house, and a maid will finally come
to the door. Removing your hat and one glove, you say, "Is Miss Doe
home?" The maid replies, "Yass, ay tank so." You give her your card and
the dog rushes out and bites you on either the right or left leg. You
are then ushered into a room in which is seated an old man with a long
white beard. He is fast asleep. "Dot's grampaw," says the maid, to which
you reply, "Oh." She retires, leaving you alone with grampaw. After a
while he opens his eyes and stares at you for a few minutes. He then
says, "Did the dog bite you?" You answer, "Yes, sir." Grampaw then says,
"He bites everybody," and goes back to sleep. Reassured, you light
a cigaret. A little boy and girl then come to the door, and, after
examining you carefully for several minutes, they burst into giggling
laughter and run away. You feel to see if you have forgotten to put on
a necktie. A severe looking old lady then enters the room. You rise and
bow. "I am Miss Doe's grandmother. Some one has been smoking in here,"
she says, and sits down opposite you. Her remark is not, however, a hint
for a cigaret and you should not make the mistake of saying, "I've only
got Fatimas, but if you care to try one--" It should be your aim to
seek to impress yourself favorably upon every member of the young lady's
family. Try to engage the grandmother in conversation, taking care to
select subjects in which you feel she would be interested. Conversation
is largely the art of "playing up" to the other person's favorite
subject. In this particular case, for example, it would be a mistake
to say to Miss Doe's g