Our clothes unmistakably affect our feelings, and self respect, as anyone knows who has experienced the sensation--and who has not ?--that comes from being attired in new and becoming raiment.

Poor, ill-fitting, or soiled garments are detrimental to morals and manners.

"The consciousness of clean linen," says Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, "is in and of itself a source of moral strength, second only to that of a clean conscience.

A well-ironed collar or a fresh glove has carried many a man through an emergency in which a wrinkle or a rip would have defeated him." The importance of attending to little details--the perfection of which really constitutes the well-dressed man or woman--is well illustrated by this story of a young woman's failure to secure a desirable position.

One of those large-souled women of wealth, in which our generation is rich, had established an industrial school for girls in which they received a good English education and were trained to be self-supporting.