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Show Home Place for Boy to Learn Ease, Confidence. Social Grace i or never quite, at laaat. Tha boya more than tha I'rla. A mother uaually knows her I daughtar'a I r lead and In a mea-ura mea-ura can eel act them wleely and well. Thay come to the houae A boy goea out, unlca hia mother la on of thoe rare people w ho atari a In early to let him hava hia "gang" In. Hut even then ahe cannot control tha year a to coma. A boy ta mora aggreeeiv in hie friend ah I pa, , Glrla hate a natural Inatlnct for tha am an I tie and grace a ol behavior. They need little poaching, poach-ing, but nt that Ibey taka to It more kindly. ftk la their growing grow-ing year ar Inclined to acuff. They reaent being trained to parlor par-lor trlt-ka. I'aually, if they ate rough diamond It tan't becauaa mot Iter a haven't tried, but becauaa they meet with little encourage-ntent encourage-ntent from I heir pupil. Of couree. Urn doe wonur A certain gajlantry auddenly take tha place of all thla oallnoa Indif-farettce. Indif-farettce. often over night. He ww a he hia aar a, keep hia hair elfrt-ked and develop manner lo a remarkahl degree. ona often w-nndara where thev coma from. By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON . If a boy la to loam aaa. confidence confi-dence conversational and social grace, horn la th place for him to t L X can easily Imaging almost any mother of a ten -year -old boy smiling smil-ing at thla. Quite likely at tha moment her owa T-T-O ta sprawling sprawl-ing on the floor Hka nothing ale on earth, bla tie under one ear. hi hoa bearing nam plea of every kind of to naot for thre mile In any direction. Hoc'al grace! Ion-vera Ion-vera t ton! Kaae! Confidence Well, the a and confidence ar all right, at laaat In tha boaom of hie family, but In conventional oom pan y we4L that a something lea again. It may Juat happen that this aama mother mind la even now unuaual acdutmg In that dim re glm of tit future, eig'ht or ten year hence (and, oh. how time flieel and returne with the warning warn-ing that all may not ba ao well than. What m aha to du about It 7 Will thla grand boy of hers now aprawllng on tha floor ba tha aa-aured, aa-aured, sorf-poeaeeaod. pollened gentleman ah has always dreamed he would he? Or will ha ba standing stand-ing around cluinally, awkwardly, Hen I. if thrown with that sort of people ahe la anxious for him to know? -And they all laughed when 8he ahivera a bit. WHY MOTHERS GET CRAY Will the knowledge that ha Is mlaerahle In auch aociety drive him to week frlenda and eompanliHie not worthy, of him but where he will fe mora at noma la III at eaae ? I bellev till very thing ta worrying worry-ing a good many utottirra of aiitttll eon a. Th future la alwaya a question ques-tion mark we never know who the irlnoda ol 4ur cUUdreu ar .to b BACK0PI0UN0 EtMNTIAL bom. bnya arhl.va an aalonl.h-In, aalonl.h-In, pure. m I lila dlrartlvn; oth.r. ara not ao lucky. All boy. ara not at aaaa MMlally. vra wllh th. aianipl. o( courtly fathera to oi'py. and with con.tantly reanlnduig mothar . All boya nand tha baA-kaound ( homa trainin,. Thay ivrrd to talk, lo raally Ulk. nut Juat to blurt out kiting an.wrra. t'on.r-MiUm t'on.r-MiUm and currant .Miakltif ar. 1 1 1 Iin.II in&rk. uf th. gntlrtn.n. liMtoiia In thl. .houlii ba brfun aarly-vary aarl). tf tvurM. tha boy may "Junt to '1uIu tha tj p. ot a, cuUtuuut w. hnna tor, but than ac.ln ht mav not. Moa.var, I think wa can guaranty, guar-anty, that tha boy, wllh tha right prlni'liU, wha I. liua-lit cunvarna-tlonal cunvarna-tlonal and Kami jiui-. ut an r.rly -, allhouali ha iniy dlxtrriul u. . lor a law yaara hy hi. rough and I rrady h.lillfc will not diMioiilnt hia inothar wha ha rravliva maua 1 catata. iMi.V.) |