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Show Hon- to Get Klch. ! Live up to your engagements. i Earn money before you spend it. Never play at any game of chance. Drink no kind of intoxicating liquor. ! Good character is above all things else. ! Keep your own secrets if you ' have any. J Never borrow if you can possibly ! avoid it. Always speak the truth. Make few promises. Keep good company or none. Never be idle. j Do not marry until you are able ' to support a wife. Ever live (misfortune excepted) , within your income. When you speak to a person, look him in the face. j Make no haste to be rich if you would prosper. Pave when you are young, to spend when you are old. Avoid temptation through fear you may not withstand it. Never speak evil of any one. Be just before you are generous. Never run into debt unless you see plainly your way out of it. j Small and steady gains give competency with tranquility of mind. Good company and good conversation conver-sation are the very sinews of virtue. Your character cannot be essentially essen-tially injured except by your own acts. If anyone speaks evil of you let your life be so that none will believe be-lieve him. When you retire to bed think over what you have been doing during the day. If your hands cannot be usefully employed attend to the cultivation of your mind. N. Y. Mail and Express. |