Show YOU I 1 oJ bA CM fC C Il-Il Il II II IL I 10 I EN I I N ti by Olive Barton Bartone e 0 1929 by NEA Service IncI Inc I i The of ener a li habit bit Is ls repeated the more Jastin lasting its ts effect Is WHit WHat tale takes effort and and thought at first In Ina Ina Ina a shot short time becomes reflex a and d is Is' done without thinking at all I That is why why it is necessary for children to be be taught good and regular habits habits' when they are aie are small One of the greatest mIstakes we make ake in training children is that that wo wo we Keep putting things off because we think they're not MANNERS BEGIN EARLY Teach a child to be polite when he be is ls young joung and nd h he ho will be polite paille all aU his life me Allo Allow him to be be berude rude and nd although later on n he be may be e al able loto tto t gloss glOBS over ove this lack under circumstances stances when he lie forgets self his early training is almost sure to manifest itself Usel Its It's the same old story stoy of ot the tho act th the habit babit character and destiny Not long Jong ago I Imet met a very won wonderful wonderful wonderful won woman had bad gained great prominence ns as a welfare worker She was ver very quiet and nd uncommunicative and I put it down to a a. personality as women wilt will I thought she didn't like mo me and wouldn't put herself out to talk I But one of ot Ur ur friends I t s cornmon com corn non mon told me the truth She has a terrible complex about talking She was an orphan and grew up with a a. family that was kind but illiterate Later a relative took her herand herand herand and had her educated very educated very well wen educated educated but but If fr she Rhe forget forJet her her- self for for a 3 minute shell she'll say I seen and things like that and not notice It until its it's too late She's so sensitive sensitive tive tIe about It that she has become very silent She's pure pUle gold and one of the hardest workers I I ever saw but I believe that secretly she is terribly unhappy S J Just st one example out of ot a bundred hundred hundred hun bun dred I could coul name FORMING CHARACTERS Now we may think that manners and grammar belong in the superficial superficial superficial super super- class where class where too many people people peo peo- pie would relegate the amenities Very well then How about the habits hab hab- its ot of character Acts of kindness become a habit if it repeated so repeated so do acts of ot service sympathy and gen gem Telling truth an and making it a point to accept nothing but truth lruth makes it Jt a habit And obedience obe obe- becomes es a habit Then there thera are re the physical habIts habits habits hab hab- its cleanliness eating regularly Sleeping ditto exercise and elim dim How ibis Important they are Sometimes I hesitate to say all aU these things to mothers It Is Js such an enormous task to make a l perfect little being All these habits to teach teach teach-Is Is there any Job in the world as big bJ- r |