| Show N We first make our Sow an act reap habit aow a habit habits tod then they make u reap character CITY SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST WALT-LAK- Politeness Has Role in Life Page One 3 1930 of-Evcry Knight Do you remember that old motto: "Politeness is to do or say the kindest thing In the kindest way"? Just now when our thoughts do not have to turn to lessons or our ears be on the alert for the sound of the school bell we can (and should) think a little about those things that are so easy to do yet which mean so much for us in the long run Politeness certainly Is something we hear about all the time And politeness Is a thing that every member of our club should think about all the time Way back In the Victorian age the motto about politeness originated and it still holds as did then as It good today Now do you really think that trains ing In courtesy interferes with freeOf course it dom of expression? doesn’t despite what some people courteous never hurt say Being In the anyone and It never will Bible It says "As ye sow shall ye also reap" The plant that is properly cared for produces the flower When the child grows up the man Is Judged by his manners the manners adopted and practiced in childhood The world today Is a busy plaee People haven't time to inquire into the sterling qualities of a person when they first meet him But they are able to form judgment by the person's manners Lack of courtesy puts one at a distinct disadvantage Of course graciousness and consideration should accompany good manners Little children must feel friendliness and learn consideration even before they are taught manners But no child is ever too young to observe the easiest forms of politeness — to say "ploase" and “thank you" to rise when a visitor enters the living room to manage his knife and fork and spoon properly and to wait for "goodies" until they are offer'd Mary Borden writing on "Manners" In Harper's Monthly Magazine expresses the above In these words: "I take It that the essence of good manners is the gift of putting people at their ease not the chosen few people whom one likes but all people Yes ease Is the word that desctlbes good manners The great lady Is at her ease with the gardener the housemaid the ragamuffin the outcast 8he makes them all feel comfortable in her presence And bad manners Is the faculty of making everyone uncomfortable whether by being abruptly rude or overwhelmabove-mention- ingly gushing too cordial or too larking in cordiality too contemptuous or too flattering Too much of anything Is bad manners It destroys ease and makes people fidget A manner that makes other people nervous Is a bad manner whether It be frankly unpleasant or too pleasant by far" — 4 Knighthood of Youth thing Welcomes— a Paris Idaho Joyce Rich Duchesne Ruth Lusty Soda Springs Idaho Keith well Cald- Shelley Idaho June Gaascli Salt Lake Bessie Jenkins Dlek Howell Dort Cummins Geraldine DeVlne Woods Crass John Walter Nelson Della Louise Hansen Bountiful Evelyn Mathis Preston Idaho Ruth Maughan Bingham Sterlvn Elaine Steel Huntington MaryK a t h r y n Thomas Helper Fva Papapaun Heber Melba Lindsay Phyllis Thomas Monroe Royal Vane? Nielson Altonah Lora Cecilia Thompson Fort Duchesne Shirley Crum bo Jeanne Crumbo Montello Nev Norma Sanders IIAD FIN AT CAMP Knight Defender Margaret Dudley has returned from Camp KUlcare Woodland where shp spent her "Water's wonderful Is It not?" and Fred says the little rhyme Conde after a hard billing at the bat and a home run on the Riverside playground agrees as the top picture shows that there is nothing quite so good on a hot day as a long cold drink of Salt Lake City water Fred Is one of the champion ball players of Riverside He Is an exclever athlete taking ceptionally part in all the various activities of the recreation center and winning great honors for his playground Is Riverside well playground known for the work it does in athletics and handwork At Riverside playground also it sometimes looks as If a doubles swinging tournament wera In progress Annie Lether and Milton Conde sitting are easily winning while Alice O Brien and Harold King do all the work It S a big crowd for one swbig but Us a big swing too! By the way perhaps you will have to look close in the lower photo to see Milton as Annie seems to be somew hat In the way Hie swings are always busy up at Riverside and at all the other playNo grounds too for that matter matter how many times a child has been in a swing there is araays the same thrill of flying that Robert Louis Stevenson was ref ei ring to when he WTOte How do you like to go up In a swing? Up m the air so blue Oh I do think it the pleasantest va- cation with her family While there Rhe wrote that she had most of her fun pitching horseshoes Ever a child can do Famous Happenings Of This Month August 1 1914 Germany declared war on Russia August 3 1 il Germany declared war on France August 3 1914 Germany declared dared war oil Germany y August 6 1914 declared war on Russia 11 1807 Fallon's steamboat August succeeded 14 1917 declared war China August on Germany August 13 1914 Panama canal was opened August 20 1833 Benjamin Harrison was born August 23 1914 Japan declared war on Germany August 28 women's suffrage proclaimed in United States August 27 1916 Italy declared war on German v August 28 1916 Rumania declared Austria-Hungar- War on Austria-Hungar- y KNIGHT DF FENDER STEVE HATCH Woods Cross Age 12 50 points A very clever present Is a string holder Take a cocoanut and where the three eyes are pound a hole In the softest one so the Juice mav drain Now saw it In two and take the out paint the two eves that you did not punch like human eyes and the hole you punched will be the mouth Now make ft bonnet like baby s bonnet and put a piece ol cloth on the back wilh which to hang it up Put a ball of twuie lu the coeoanut-hal- f and put the end of the twine through the mouth of face the Then put the bonnet on the cocoanut and it will look like a monkey with a bonnet on This makes a present both pretty and useful KNIGHT BANNERET DOROTHY WEPPRECHT Salt Lake age 11 50 pointaj iS SOI TIL Dorothy Louise Street of Piovo Is visiting In Tennessee where she is helping her grandfather hoe cot on Bhe sends her love t all Knighthood member a VISITING Page |
