A. If used at all, preference in scents should be indicative of your character. They should express delicacy and refinement. It is of consequence whether you are to remain fixed in the minds of friends by a fragrance grateful to the nostril or by something akin to an olfactory shock.

Q. What may be said of strong scents?

A. They are an expression of coarseness. Sometimes pleasure in strong perfumes is an inherited trait. There are those who pass through life pushing before them and spreading around them great billows of strong scent, just as an ocean liner makes itself manifest on the deeps of the ocean. It is a well-known fact that uneducated and uncultured persons have a fondness for strong odors; in recognition of this, Miss Kortrecht has written the following verses:

When we go visiting grandma,
Out on the farm, you know,
Where mother was a little girl
'Bout a hundred years ago,
Our little colored namesakes-
Yaller Ned and all

They say, "Mis' Lucy, howdy?
Ain't you brung us nothin''t all?"

And when the trunks were opened,
And the presents 'vided out,
Then all the little darkies

They set up such a shout:
"De gif's is sho❜ly scrumptious
An' de bes' thing in de lot
Is de lily-rose perfumery
What bow-leg Betsy got."

Q. Do we possess a direct memory for odors ? A. While there is little or no direct memory for odors and they cannot be recalled at will for purposes of comparison, they are quick to bring back recollections and associations, the memories evolved being vivid even to poignancy.

Q. Should facial expression be regarded as a matter of deportment?

A. Emphatically, yes. Whenever you are unable to command a cheerful countenance you had best confine yourself within the walls of your own apartment with closed and locked doors, that distress may be observed by none.

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Q. What is the effect of a disagreeable look?

A. It is one of the forms of selfishness which often defeats its own end; for favors are grudgingly bestowed upon those with a sour look in the eyes and about the mouth. As a gift is twice given when given quickly, so it is when given cheerfully.

Q. What impression should I make upon the world?

A. An impression of cheer. As we have seen, impressions are the basis of expressions. Interest in others compels interest in yourself.

Q. What is the result of unpleasant scrawls upon the face?

A. To stamp upon the face scrawls that signify sourness, acrimony, dissatisfaction, distress, hopelessness, and forlornness is to confess yourself beaten in the struggle of life and invite the kick that sends you farther down the hill. To see a face that looks as if a whine were its only note of expression is as ungrateful to the eye as the whine itself is to the ear.

Q. Should attention be regarded as a matter of deportment?

A. Yes; to be attentive when another is speaking, to listen well at all times, is a social accomplishment of value and invites confidence; and the confidence of another, let it be said, is the highest compliment in his power to bestow, the preliminary and essential of true friendship and intimacy. Q. Do habits of attention affect the mind?

A. Nothing is more conducive to the wellordered mind than the early acquisition of habits of attention.

Q. What is the privilege of masculine humanity?

A. To attend upon the wants of the women who have admitted him to their acquaintanceship. Q. What is a woman's duty in this respect?

A. To permit all possible service and attendance. A man rises whenever the women in the room, singly or collectively, betake themselves to their feet, and remains standing until they are seated again. Women should not object to this slight attention as too ceremonious. It is most discouraging for a man to stoop to pick up an article inadvertently dropped by a woman, only to bump her head and his own because she, too, has stooped for its recovery. Nothing becomes a woman more than a graceful acceptance of these slight attentions; nothing more becomes a man than the proffering of them. By all means let the practices coming to us from a day more gallant than our own suffer no diminution or discouragement.

Q. What is the importance of entering a room? A. When you enter a room, the impression created is instantaneous. Your shape, height, color, education or lack of it, social experience, tact, selfishness, cordiality, reserve, each and all

are equally perceived like a flash of lightning.

Q. Mention some mechanical details.

A. If it is necessary to open a door, it is best

done by taking the knob between the first and second finger and turning it gently. The opening is to be made broad enough to permit the easy ingress of the person. If it is requisite to close the door after entering, let it be done with the same grasp and turn of the knob. The click of the lock is offensive to many and can readily be avoided. You should not slam the door, or use the knee, hip, elbow, or flattened hand for the purpose.

Q. How should I conduct myself upon entering

a room?

A. A glance about should quickly regulate your conduct. As soon as the room is entered you should overcome any tendency to self-effacement which manifests itself in a habit of lurking in corners and of selecting seats obviously uncomfortable; also of walking on tiptoe, which is always disturbing to those already in the room, as it attracts attention. Walk in freely without unnecessary noise, and add to the composition by adjusting a chair in relation to those already placed. If there is a conversation or lesson in progress, join in it with interest. Do not abruptly change the topic. There is always plenty of time. Q. How should I leave a room?

A. You should leave some regret in the minds