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How To Be Polite

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
October
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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Do not try too hard to' be ponte. Nover overwhelm your Mende by begging theui tomake Uiemselvos at homo, y will soon wish they were thcrc. Show by your actions rnthcr than your worda liiat yon are glad to seo them. Havo onough regard for yoursolf to treal your greatest enemy with quict politenesa. All petty elighta aro inercly mcafiness, and hurt yourself more than any one olso. I)o not folk abourt yoursolf or your familytothe exclusión of other topics. What if yon ese clovor, and a lililí' more so than other peoplc, it msiy not be thftt other fulks will thiiik so, wnatever, they ought to do. It muy be interostíng to you to talk over your aumente, but very tirosome i'or otliers to listen to. Muk! people think you consider them olever and agreeable, and they will be pivtty apt to havo a pleasant imprèSsión OÍ yourself. Treat people just as you would likc to havo them treat you. It is muoh easier to lose the good opinión of peoplo than to regain it ; and wh n any pne doea notoare forthegood cpinion of others, he or sho is not worthy ot' respcct. Do not excuso your house, furniture, or the table you set bofore your guests. It is fair to supjiose that theic visits are to you, not to yi.ur surroundings. The whole machinery oí BOcial intcrcourso is very delioate and intricate, and it is our buainew to keep all placea of posaible friction well suppliod with tho oil of politent-ss. - Qermai ■ Telegraph, A Janesrille, Wis., editor has disoQvered that many ot' t!i" youngladies of thatoity weartheii ooraeta in bed with íU.' si tightly lacod. Tho editor noglacta i how be oame tu bnow s muoh I To obtain sweet mili,'1 said the vételo n hispen, .injj; placidly into tho faoe of'his inquiror. "To obtain sweet milk, your cows twice ■.: day onsugar cañe, and be suro to keeii tho cali' away from the mother whiln teolhing."

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Old News
Michigan Argus