DON’T contradict people, even if you are sure you are right. DON’T be inquisitive about the affairs of even your most intimate friend. DON’T underrate anything because you don’t possess it. DON’T believe that everybody in the world is happier than you. DON’T conclude that you have never had any opportunities in life. DON’T believe all the evil you hear. DON’T repeat gossip, even if it does interest a crowd. DON’T go untidy on the plea that everybody knows you. DON’T be rude to your inferiors in social position. DON’T overdress or underdress. DON’T jeer at anybody’s religious belief. Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better than medicine. Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smile. No one cares whether you have the earache, headache, or rheumatism. Learn to attend to your own business—a very important point. DON’T try to be anything but a gentlewoman or a gentleman, and that means one who has consideration for the whole world, and whose life is governed by the golden rule: “Do unto others as you would be done by.”—Christian World.