Practical Life, or Ways and Means for Developing Character and Resources The Individual Considered in Regard to Domestic Life, Common Sense, Physical Books, Dress, Love, Manners, Flirtations,

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Commercial integrity - Business orthodoxy - Ignorance of business - Dishonesty - Duty of preachers - Two practical tests - Selecting partners in business - Spec ulation - What it is - Its limits - Its dangers - Its crimes - South Sea Bubble Enterprise w. Speculation - American proneness to speculation - French thrift Its virtues - Its dangers - Absorption in little things - Misers and business men Why are we a nation of speculators - Defects in American education - The culti vation of ambition - Our national character - School pabulum - False views Emotional education - Duty w. Love - Lack of self-control - Cultivation of judg meat - Somebody and nobody - Models set - Parents' ambitions - To counteract false ideas - The shalt nots of amusements - Rolicking fun - Gambling Losses of - False names - Idleness - Evil habits - Carrying arms - Rudeness Temptations - Cost of a young man or woman - Example in dollars and cents - Value of a character - Of eighteen years - Of a soul.

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