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Show What Is a Gentl'manP Among tho Persians at the time of Cyrus the boys were taught to ride, to speak the truth and to draw the bow. That meant manliness, truthfulness and courage, all essential to tho character char-acter of a gentleman. Tho knights of chivalry, who wero tho gontlemen of their time, added tho duty of rescuing the oppressed and distressed and this completed tho Ideal by teaching unselfishness un-selfishness and service. If a boy Is taught to l9 always "-'f-respocrlng courageous aad truthful and Invariably considerate, not outwardly but as the expression of true kindliness of spirit, of tho rights and feelings of others, ho ' will grow up, whether he bo rich or I poor, a professional man or a laborer, ' to have tho right to claim not by any artificial distinction, but in his own ( right, all that it implies, "the grand old 1 name of gentleman." ' - I " |