| Show cultivation OF PROPE PROPER it deportment tiva THE following instructive paragraph appears in one of our esteemed exchanges chan es young folks should be mannerly how to be so is the fhe question many a good boy and girl feel that they cannot behave to suit themselves in the presence of company they feel timid bashful and self distrustful the moment they are arc addressed by a stranger or appear in company there is but on one e way to get over this feeling and acquire gra graceful cebul and aas easy y manners that is to do the best they can all the time at home as well as abroad good manners are not learned from arbitrary teaching so much as from habit they erow crow upon us by use we must be courteous agreeable civil kind gentlemanly tle manly and womanly at home and then it will soon become a kind of second nature to be so everywhere A course rough manner at home begets a habit of rou roughness aness which we cannot layoff lay off it if we try when we go among strangers the most agreeable people we have ever known in company are those that are perfectly agreeable at home home is the school for or all the best things especially for good manners 11 |
