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Manners

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
July
Year
1860
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

- Youncr folks sLould be mannerly ; but how to be go is a questiou. Many good boys and girls feel tnat they cannot behave to suit themselves in the presence of company. Thoy are awkward, clownish, rough. They feel timid, bashfui, and self-distrustful, the moment they are addressed by a stranger, or uppear iu eompany. Thero is but one way to get over tbis feeling, and acquire easy and graceful manners, and that is to do tb e best they can all the time, at home as wel] as abroad. Good manners are not learned so muoh as acquired by habit. They grow upon us by habit. We must be courteous, agrceable, civil, kind, gentlemanly, and manly at home, and then it will become a kind of second nature every where. A coarse mauner at home, begets a babit of roughness which we cauuot lay off if we try when we go among etrangers. Tho most agreeable persons we havo ever known iu company were those who were most agreeable at home. Home ia the school for all the best things.