Show I THE TIiE RIGHT THING at the IL RIGHT TIME By MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE DUPPEE DO IT NOW NOV NE of or the r requirements of good O ONE manners s 's promptness The man or n woman oman who Is put putdown putdown putdown down as well wen bred and possessed of ot good manners Is no laggard Not only does It show Indifference and inefficiency clency to put things off that you ou know you must do some time but It shows lack of ot breeding brewIng I meant to write that letter acknowledging acknowledging ac ac- your our gift gIrt but you know how hard It Is to get down to write letters these days I certainly should have ha written a aletter aletter aletter letter of condolence to Mury Mary but hut my myad ad address ress book was mislaid and I couldn't remember her a address ress Im I'm really reany ashamed of m myself I I surely should have sent Jane JaDe that money I borrowed from her before this I but there were so man many other things to attend to and fin finally all she had bad to ask tor kor It lt I II dont don't know what Mrs Jones thinks of ot us She naked us to dinner lInner and I didn't get around to answering her note till un the morning of t tuc e dinner These statements are ones you JOU hear henr I repeatedly from people who fall full Just below par In III the social life around them They have never er been taught the lie almost sacred obligation that rests upon us to answer Invitations pay personal personal personal per per- debts an and to write letters of con can condolence dolence or congratulations with promptness And they have never ne acquired acquired acquired ac ac- ac- ac the habit on their own account But they do not have any more time timeto to do 10 other things Just because of ot this neglect In fact they spend as much time regretting their omissions In this regard as they would In attending to them therm promptly One young woman and a very buy busy young oung she woman she Is Is has hus mad mada a rule never neer to togo go to bed at nt night v n she had hod a n letter that called for tor an answer answer saver In her desk This does not notto notto notto to correspondence but to those lei let that require promptness In ans e eIt It doesn't tale take any more time to saver a letter first as last she marks marls and an now that I have hn this habit I never ne have to drea overdue o correspondence that hint Is nl alv nh such a 8 bug boo to every ery one Q by McClure Newspaper Syndicate 0 |