CHINA MALL, NOVEMBER
If You Can Take Full Marks For These 20 Questions
YOU'RE A VERY, VERY HONEST GIRL!
There are many rather keen eyed people to-day saying that the one great missing ingredient in the chaotic modern scene is just plain square shooting honesty..
It is slowly becoming
to our clear-eyed, scientific-mind-
12. Never make a dishonest ex- cuse for something you have for- gotten or failed to do Tell the truth and shame the devil
13. Never do or speak anything dishonest even to shield a friend.
“white” lie 14. Never tell even a
ed twentieth century that undoubt--not even to quiet a child or com- edly one of the greatest labour-fort an invalid. If the truth won't saving devices known to man is do, keep silent.
honour.
15. Never do or say anything dis-
If you don't believe it, watch the honest without expecting to face if Stock Exchange at work trans-sometime, somewhere. Every lie is ferring millions of pounds a day by a boomerang and hurts the teller voice over the telephone.
more than anyone else.
The Exchange rigidly guards the honour of such transactions.
16 Never conveniently forget + return to book or umbrella or other
a
Then think what frightful consmall object borrowed. Go out of fusion and slowing-up would occur your way to return it promptly. if brokers could not trust each 17. Never fail to remember other's word, and if all trans-small promise made, even to a actions had to be in cash!
child, and fulfill it gallantly and promptly.
Just what honesty, anyway? Let's take the word of Dr. Charles C. Cole, who has worked out an honesty code.
We'll amend it slightly to bring it fully up to the modern standard.
Test yourself on it!
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Here are twenty code standards. and you are to give yourself from 1 to 5 marks on each standard, ac cording to how honourably you be lieve you observe it.
Add up your marks. The result, is your Square-Shooting Average, your honesty mark,
Below 50 is somewhat crooked: 50 to 75 average; over 75 bonour- able; 90 very honourable; 100 leaning backward in honourable-
ness.
1. Never pay less than the cor- rect amount of any bill, and never accept more than the correct amount of change..
2. Never keep any article which you find without making an effort to locate the owner.
3. Never defraud anyone, not even a "soulless" corporation. In- sist on paying your fare on a bus even if the conductor overlooks it. 4. Never permit children over five to ride on a Tube or a train with- out paying their fare, and never purchase half-fare tickets for children over twelve. It harms the child more than it helps your purse.
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5. Never put a letter in a news- Daper package without acknow ledging it and paying full postage
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knowledge and consent.
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Never pass on counterfeit money not even to a church col- lection plate!
8. Never falsify“ an expense 20- count even when the amount spent is under the allowance.
9. Never fail to play old accounts due to doctors, dentists and others for professional services, even if statements have stopped coming.
10. Never make a false report or statement even in support of 2 worthy cause, such as charity or church.
DO YOU NEVER LIE?
11. Never misrepresent goods you are selling even if your job pends upon it.
18. Never claim to have done things or been places or earned more than is the truth.
19. Never seize an opportunity that comes to you to do damage even by inference, to a person yo dislike.
20. Never make or hold friend ships on the basis of the practical exploiting use you can make of them,
And we trust to your honour to give yourself a fair score!
A man's wing collar, stiff and starched, on a black woollen day dress, is the latest fashion shown in London bý. Dilkusha Photo shows The latest wing collar fashion for the ladies seen in London. (Fox Copyright).
neglect of COMMON ILLS MAY MEAN days of suffering
WHOLE days
by the
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suffering, and in many
and pain can definitely ction of taking
wonderful
ASPRO is how it soothes pain-
aces feverishness. and how, after ingesti the system, being a solvent of uric acid- ternal antiseptic-—an anti-pyretic or fever reda ---and a powerful germicide, it strikes at the cause
of numerous complaints, then much suffering will be avoided much illness prevented.
ASPRO
IS THE SAFE MEDICINE
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