Show TEA TEACHING I 1 HING CHILDR tn 3 GOOD MANNERS teachers discuss wao VH and meant means of improving deportment of and others tito the parent teachers teachers association of the vernal school met in central school but building iding tuesday march ath at 7 30 p m the president mr chas colton being unable to attend mr samuel page presided mr page introduced the subject of the evening how may teachers operate cooperate co with parents in teaching children good manners by a fow few appropriate remarks mrs enos enoa reunion dennion opened the discussion she cited the case of a principal in her home town who had bad succeeded in raising the standard of personal cleanliness and good grooming polite manners clean grounds and respect for the surrounding orchards us s the result of earnest persistent effort teachers say that children well governed go veined in the home give no trouble at school mrs bennion believes this to be so and stated further that if the home influence were the strongest then the parents need not fear the bad influence of street or school playmates the essential thing in in cul cal cating catling good manners la is example and careful supervision parents and teachers should mingle with their children teachers should be on the playground play ground supervising and playing with the children parents should go with their children to places of amusement and church and above abobo all parents should gain their childrens confidence in conclusion mrs bennion quoted two excellent paragraphs part of velch chich are as follows tile the old time courtesy has gone out and the new ume hurry liao aas conic come in I 1 true politeness Is true kindness delicately expressed A happy agreeable polite sunny manner Is of priceless value in the struggles of life A child that is taught to bo be polite and agreeable agree ae under all circumstances is sure to develop a beautiful refined character prof N G spoke of the fact that the rough western life was no doubt reflected in our manners ile he deplored this and suggested some ways in which teachers might help improve them mr frank watkins talked on prevalent disrespectful attitude of children to their elders ciders the disrespectful ful vulgar and indecent language and the use of nicknames nick names reames ile ha said no doubt children did learn by tation and in this case they imitated the public ile he then said that parents and teachers ought to be more thoughtful in regard to their language miss and mr zelph elph calder gave specific instances to give point to mr theodore johnson spoke of the old country braining in the matter of laiho P om 4 A W A cnance of that leach e much more garefal not to countenance counte nanco the use of slang mr page closed the discussion ife spoke of the western tendency to bluffness which was an effort not to appear servile ile he closed by an aia appeal to those present to begin on themselves in order to offer the children fitting examples to follow owing gwing to the bond issue election the musical program failed to materialize the attendance was small but the discussion was as lively and interesting as usual the meeting clofed promptly at ID m |