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Modest Way

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
November
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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Nothing becoines a young girl so well as modest ways. It Í8 eo inortifying to mothera to know that their daughters act rudely whea away froni home. They wonder at it. They are usually good enough and ladylike at home; but the moment they are out of her sight, on tne street or on the way to church, and perhaps in church, even, loud laughing and talking becotne the rule. Does it ever ocour to those mothers to give their girls a gentío warning on leaving the paren tal roof', as to their manners and waysi' Says one : " I do not like to be always scolding. I talk to my daughters once in a while, and I expect that to suffice." But, mother, if you had a choice plant, a young tree that you wished to bring to perfection, would you expect it to becuine perfect with only an occasional trimming? No - you would be apt to watch it with great care, trimraing it a little every week or every day, to see that no unruly branchos put forth to mar its beauty. So it is with youth ; little by little is the character foruied that is to govern the af'ter life. I do not believe in a rough-and-ready scolding. Scolding, as a rule, has not much forcé. If one has to give a stern rebuke, let it be in as few words as possible. Yetl think, if párente take second thought, that a mild reproof in most cases would answer best. Toung people just coming to maturity have nacurally free and impulsivo ways. Odb can excuse rudeness in boys, for it seems a nat ural prerogative of their nature, but a wild, romping or bold girl is a conciuual source of anxiety to a mother and generally distasteful to society ; henee, mothers cannot be too careful of the manner of their daughters.

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Old News
Michigan Argus