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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
February
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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Marmers aro moro important tlian money. A boy who ia polite and pleasant in his manners, will alwaya havc friends, and will not often have enemies. Good behavior is essontial to prosperity. A boy foela well when ho does well. If you wish to niake everybody pleasant about you, and gain friends wherever you go, cultívate good manners. Many boys have plasant manners for company and ugly manners for home. We visited a small railroad town not long since, and were met at the depot by a little boy of about eleven or twelve years, who entertained and cared for us in the absenco of his father, with as muoh polite attention and thoughtful care as the most cultivated gentleman could have done. We said to his mother before we left her home, " You are groatly blossed in your son, he is so attontive and obliging." " Tes," she said : - " I can always depend on Charley when his father is absent. He is a great help and comfort to me." She said tbis as if it did her heart good to aeknowledge the cleverness of her son. The best manners cost so little, and aro worth so much, that every boy can have them. -

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Old News
Michigan Argus