Young Ladies, Take Heed.
Do, sometimes, at least, allow your mother to know better than you do; she was educated before you were born.
Do sign your full name to your letters.
Do learn to say “No.”
Do, if you have brothers, try to gain their confidence, to be interested in their sports, to cultivate their manners, not by censure, but by the force of your own example.
Do laugh, girls, not boisterously, not constantly, but clearly and pleasantly, but don’t giggle. If girls from fourteen to eighteen could only understand the vulgarity of continually putting their heads together and giggling, as if the whole world was a supremely ridiculous affair, about which they must chuckle, and whisper, when in truth their own actions are the one thing ridiculous, they would refrain from such unmitigated nonsense.
Do be exquisitely neat in your attire. Beware of the lawn dress, the light kids, the collar, the laces that are worn once too often.
Do be careful about giving away your photographs, especially to men. You would hardly like to hear the comments that are sometimes passed upon them. If you cannot learn to say “No,” refrain from displaying them to your gentleman friends.