Show S Mst MAAM L I NO 0 SIR SIlt B By Irene Inno Gardner People are beginning to realize rf that there thre should not 1 bo be 6 one form of courtesy for Cor children arid and another mother for COl ad adult u Itt Most of or us when we were wera young o were taught to say No Xo maam ma'am and nl No So o sir to our t elders but ns as soon Roon as 09 we grow up tip we dropped the Ow form of or reply as being in poor taste Tho The young roun man who wants want to make mako good with his best girls girl's mother dof do ent nt address her as maam IChe If Ii he docs he J is ot voted ll a n greenhorn by the tho family who how- how eser c ma may he be insisting upon the tho small ho boy of oC the family saying maam to all nil the women ho knows mo Gradually but hut surely this form of or address I is being eliminated from th the tho childs child's vocabulary oc Its It's n a good thing timing For can nn any one give Ive a good rea reason on wh why a a. child should i be he taught a form of oC courte courtesy which if IC he ho uses when ho he becomes ohl older r puts him In tho the attitude of oC one who hasn't hant been brought up Imagine a l young man at a dinner party part n addressing his hostess as ns maam Tho The other guests would size Izo him him up as ts fresh from the country country- i Mr Mrs lIo Hostess fess Have you ou seen tho the new play ilaY this week Mr Blank BIonic and young oun Mr r. r Blank answers No 00 maam ma'am I haven't ha been t to a theatre for aIn n a In month o n I ii Or the spinster acro across from Mr Blank says 1 Have you hoard heard from Crom your our sister I since she returned homo home anti tho the answer comes Yes maam ma'am I had a n. letter Ilter this morning It would never r do some somo kind friend would kayo havo to Nl toll the young oung man that people pf aro are not to he be so In n polite society clet limit Hut the correction should have havo gone further back lie He le should havo have been taught ri right ht In tho the first pia place coh co When h n Johnnie is 6 years old 01 an and is aske c l. l Johnnie lid dill you OU see the I zed headed Il II-Il adeli girl riding tho white whito horse past tho the hon house o a moment ago and for or answer tho the ho bo joy says Sl'S No I did not feo her liar ho Is reprimanded for employing a 0 discourteous form of answer but If ho were 28 x cars ars that Is exactly what he would have o said evento oven even to o his mother Which Is a queer wa way of training Johnnie Tho The courtesy of our conversation with others does not depend upon our form of speech but hut Its manner No o. o maam from rom a a. child can sound mound distinctly rudeNo rudeNo rude no be made to sound No No o mother mothel or just plain can exceedingly courteous The teachers in the Chicago schools have ha given g forth Corth the he edict that maam and sir are to be bc hereafter eliminated from the childs child's conversation in school The discussion lon has called forth both protest And tion Some Sorno orno parents parent la ray th they are glad slad because for Cor a lon long longtime I time the tiey have riot not allowed alJo their children n to us use that form of or speech at home hom and others raise their voices In iii protest because they think children will become moro more disrespectful than ever fr when such a n course is bc adopted These hat parents must be thc they who depend on the time letter of the law la as 05 a governing gO power power rather than Its Us spirit I On One parent said that ho he was going before tho the school chool I board hoard with tho the matter for he saw an alarming sl sign In their lr abandonment of or the tho old form of or address I shall tr try to correct this evil ho said positively cl Now 00 I Id I'd like to know IC If that lint man always says Yes maam ma'am to hi hl mother in If H ho doesn't then what rl right ht ha has he got to Insist upon his own boy saying Yes Yes maam ma'am and No o sir J There here cannot be orie oTie form torm of the courtesy for young anti and another for the old I |