If she has five grains of common sense, she will find this out.

The great thing is to teach her their proper value." It is true that clothes do not make the man, but they have a much larger influence on man's life than we are wont to attribute to them.
Prentice Mulford declares dress to be one of the avenues for the spiritualization of the race.

This is not an extravagant statement, when we remember what an effect clothes have in inciting to personal cleanliness.

Let a woman, for instance, don an old soiled or worn wrapper, and it will have the effect of making her indifferent as to whether her hair is frowsy or in curl papers.

It does not matter whether her face or hands are clean or not, or what sort of slipshod shoes she wears, for "anything," she argues, "is good enough to go with this old wrapper." Her walk, her manner, the general trend of her feelings, will in some subtle way be dominated by the old wrapper.
Suppose she changes,--puts on a dainty muslin garment instead; how different her looks and acts! Her hair must be becomingly arranged, so as not to be at odds with her dress.