Show I Co COURTESY MUST BE MADE EASY IF CHILD RECALLS MANNERS T T Bring your problem lont dl diet t tl general care and ma mana Myrtle l Meyer Eldred Your i wit wll be ue answered 1 you ou will send a a cent stamped envelope with Jo J. J letter Jetter to Mrs l Eldred In r t tare care o or of n tb Your flaby and Mine V 1 of this newspaper I It is the perplexed plaint of mou that children old enough to kno ter ler continue to show so little inter and courtesy toward adult retti and md friends tI I Children didn't used wed to be wa way one mother said id It is true that children in iii the p past bt fewer demands made upon thc them I social individuals They were I teti but not heard while now they S both seen and heard and their theli tb chi 4 ish reactions are less than to the parents The child who looks with cold 1 I at the fri friends ds of the probably suffering from nothing m rn serious than a lack of or interest The adult world is 5 full of lion tion for children but seldom the ic Ind who Inhabit it Adulis ira 1 something to lurk Jurk in corners to loot w at at listen to to wonder conder at because at-because because thi ti are strange and mystifying to eM dren The manners which we ace aCCt i a. a as natural the social patter u just foolish to children They are arc forthright and blunt bum na M I I they like someone they go up and arid giVe him a Q shove or offer him they themselves would like to b hav have Vt I But having to say How do you do and answer meaningless less a about themselves all in the In interest r tS of bein being polite is medicine to som or J children I Meanwhile the children cant can't be allowed to grow grol up little savages W have a leaflet for Children which discusses the various aspects o of how children ml may be trained You yot may have a copy of oC it by sending with your our request a addressed 3 cerit 3 e t stamped envelope Address j Meyer Eldred in care of the yoUr Yourl I Baby and Mine department of this this' newspaper J Children have ha to be c exposed to courtesy cour tOUt tes tesy and and as little as a. possible demanded of them until they become infected Wh-at Wh seems most awry In our social system is a that all that thal is 13 expected of or children are manners We really dont don't want their society We merel merely want t. t them em to appear do their stuff stull and pear Better far to allow the children the privilege e o of being with adults Dimand Di- Di mand little of or them but dont don't shut them off from company when th they y have said their little say sy Let them the sit around listen and smile but j g get the feeling fe-elin behind the patter palter is above all aU else just interest In othi people r H T Later on when the child feels a per pj need to make other people aware of him as a personality hell he'lL er use without embarrassment the behavior be behavior be be- havior the manners which he knows to be successful in showing other peo people ko pIe his interest in them Until that t time make social intercourse familiar to him but neither onerous nor norbu norb bur J jf L I. vi HI |