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Show Importance of Good Manners. ! Good manners are extraordinarily contagious, more contagious than bad manners. Manners are not like clothes: its a bad thing to have two suits of them, one for best, and one for every day. Wear your best manners all tha time, they suffer more by beintr nut away than by constant use. If jou keep your best manners for company, they will fit you ill, and your visitor will suspect they were put en for hiin. Wear your second-best clothes at home if you will, not your second-best manners. man-ners. To whom, in. heaven's name, is it worth while to be rourteous if not to the people you love best? Good manners man-ners are more contagious than the grippe. If any one doubt the importance of fine manners, let him try this experiment: experi-ment: Begin the day by being as gracious, gra-cious, as kind, as polite to the first person you meet as you know how to be; repeat the experiment with the next person; keep it up all day. At night, look back and see if life's fraction frac-tion has not been diminished to its lowest point. Then contrast that day with the memory of some other day when you awoke feeling cross; when you showed everybody you met that you were out of temper. Remember how that first note of anger cu sounded was repeated and echoed through the house! A houseful of people, peo-ple, or an offlceful of people, is just like a house of cards. Jostle ons card, and the jar runs through the whole fabric and brings it down with a crash! |