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Show COURTESY IX THE HOME. If the question were put suddenly to you or to me, "Are you a polite and kindly person?" We should probably pro-bably answer, "Why, yes," with a little sense of affront at the thought that we could possibly be considered anything else than polite and kindly. And we probably are both to th stranger and the casual acquaintance and the frieud. But do we carry our civility into our own family circle? We are not speaking of direct incivility in-civility and rudeness. That does not enter into the question. 'But is our family life bassed upon essential courtesy and kindness? We are supposedly surrounded in our homes with the people whom we love best in the world. It is for them that we work and toil and sacrifice. Their w-ell being is worth more to us than our own. If trouble or illness threaten them our day is darkened. Yet is it not true mat we often fail to accord them the little courtesies courtes-ies of every-day life which "we would show to a stranger within or without our gates? Do we give them the few-words few-words of kindly appreciation which would mean so much to them? T)o we not sometimes proffer, them rare-less rare-less discouragement and criticism which may some day come back to us with the force cf a blow? Supppose we hold a little private conference with ourselves over these questions. Let us each and this means you and me cirry our outdoor out-door courtesies and thoughtf ulncss into the home and we shall find out what a place of radiance and charm that home may be. |