Show THE HOME A i short chapter on company manners ana politeness A writer in good q th us protests against company man mail ners which be declares are the ruin of many households hou beholds he ile sa y F 1 I know a woman who ia is always bamping about culture and in fit ment and etiquette and anti who nho does not t his minute know the meaning ef of that old fashioned term good manners she ie is always alaya regretting the lack of culture among lier neighbors and there is not one ode of them who ia is not r more ore polite than ebe she ie is I 1 have heard her act actually ua lly yell at her servants and storm at her children and I 1 do not think her husband is the happiest man in the world in society she ehe is a charming woman she knowe knows juit just what to say aay and how to say it I 1 never saw a woman who could excel her in gliding across a room and sinking gracefully grace lully into a chair her ifer little boys can tip their hats bats eo so prettily to ladies on the street her little girls can enter a root room n with toes properly turned out anil anti with the grace of little queens aud and abal both the little boys and the little girls can be as impertinent and display the worst manners of any children I 1 ever saw and they literally fight among them selves they are not taught to be polite to each other their mother seldom favors favori them with her own properly chosen words and graceful manners when they are aro alone with her discord reign reigns until the do doorbell or ring rings a and then the ell entire tire household must put on good mannen manners if we dont one of the children said we catch it when the banys gone this isan is au extreme case but do we not all have our company magnero mannear man nerO nerr do we speak juat just as gently aud and sweetly to our children to our husbands and wives when we are alone with them as when in the presence of the chance caller D do 0 we ilie cay to a transgress tran trans egres gres eug johnnie or katie dont do that dear or slop stop that this inin min i ue ule I 1 tell you which is il it do D we say please and thank you to each other and to our servants at all times or are these pleasing little word held in reserve with the rest our company mandere man Inan nere flon Is it only io in the presence of strangers that we smilingly overlook or gently ly chide the trifling faults of our children oh there company minnerel mandere man nere they are the ruination of a household they can not always be put on and off at well traces of the every day discord and lack of harmony will manifest themselves through the affectation of all the mere oom piny manners one can assume habitual politeness eneis and kindness and gentleness should be the unwavering rule in every evory home borne even on blue mondays Ion davs I 1 hare been in homes in which it teemed to roe me thai that eve every member of the household seemed r zent bent on see bog how hateful and disagreeable they could be to each other the mother would peak in a nagging nag eing aing fretful ton tone the father lorl ordered ered everybody around the children quarreled the servant antl went around irile their nones noses in the ai air ready and eager for little avit with 4 an anybody and how ilow wrete wretch ed such homes arel in some come of them they dont even have company 1 l pany ma manner aers a S sometimes me ti imes n my wife ife and I 1 pity ay on Tet sunday now let us agree that we will wil not say a single cross word to any one on thia whole week let ue us be studiously polite to each other and to the children let ua us be V very p ry mindful of the 00 nelipa ee lipa of every p err with whom we may come into contact let us not fret nor cow complain nor do to anything that go good 0 1 decent well behaved christians should not do and if when the next sunday comes we have through the grace of cod ke kept I 1 t this resolve it goes without saying saving that we have been happy and the world has perhaps been made a little bet ler ter for or ou beit bajog jn ig j |