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Show Courtesy at Home. We 'are ali creatures of habit, nu-n ai'd women alike, and the habits and surroundings of daily life have a powerful power-ful influence on the character of both. Th- root of all bad manners is selfishness:' selfish-ness:' when self ever is first, foremost consideration for others always lags much, in th- rear, and drops so far behind be-hind in time that it disa;ipars altogether. alto-gether. "One cannot kcep'un the ceremony cere-mony and etiuette of society when at home." True, for between friends these can b?- laid aside. They merely are the rivets that' keen society together, to-gether, but not courtesy and consideration. consider-ation. The latter ought to be so much the habit with each nf us that it will beet me our second nature, and therefore there-fore can be no more laid aside than can an arm or a !-g. |