friends. It will annoy you at first to think that you are counted one of these, but after awhile you will assume an air of bravado and say that you don't care. But you will be telling an untruth, for you do care. There is no woman who does not like to think that she has real friends—friends who love and admire her, and who are loyal to her. The slangy girl may have hundreds of acquaintances, but she will never get these thoughtless people interested in her so that she will be compensated for the loss of a friend who would have stood by her through sorrow and through joy.
SLANG IN MANNERS
The girl who is slangy in her manner is the girl who commenced by being slangy in her speech, and who is to-day the worst specimen of bad manners in existence. Carelessness in speech has brought this about. She sees no use for the pretty courtesies of every-day life; she doesn't care to be treated like a lady, because she wants to be "one of the boys." She likes to call herself "a jolly fellow." She leans her elbows on the table at dinner, she lolls in the chair in the most careless of attitudes. She thinks it very funny to jump on and off the car as it is going, and equally funny to whistle for the car to stop, instead of motioning for it as other girls do. She sees no reason why
