The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-21
X, fined Manners at Home.

There is power in the tout ensenby.
beyond that of the tailor. The con
may be of the latest Partisan cut, ant
the man may be beast, whose leopard
spots, all the tailor's art can not hide
There is a power beyond that of gold
which can make one forget the shabby
coat and the old fashioned dress. 1t is
| the manner, which money en- not buy,
which the tailor can not cut. But how
| is this enviable address to be obtained :
By seeking the true and beautiful in the
| divine and in the human.
"Can you give me a general rule for
manners ?" a girl once asked her teach
er. eyes cultivate your heart" was
the answer:
There is large class of people whose
with the full dress. A i" society man
may be perfect ghoul at home. Only
the other day, Jack, who is such an ele-
CANT creature at party, stepped on his
sisters foot in a crowd. With q low
bow, and a voice expressive of the
deepest solicitude, he said, 81 beg
your pardon" But a second after,
"Oh, is it you, Mary? I thought it
was some one else" Indeed, if some
people who have not thought much of
the matter will take the pains to COM
pare their manners abroad with those
OF home, they will be asst -nished beyond
measure.
And yet, is this moralizing? What a
vast change might be made for the bet
ter in the home circlel Mariana, who
is always SO polite abroad, feels at per-
feet liberty to be impatient, lose her
temper, and sulk in her own family.
She "won't," and she "will,' and
"Sam's ugly" and Mothers cross ;"
yet, after all, she is probably in the
midst of those 81 e loves best, and those
who have most love for her.
Why not the full dress manners with
plain dress? They won't wear out by
common usage. but grow stronger and
sveeter, like long used flute. 1t would
glorify home life. It would be an ever
recurring melodious strain amid the
only be as polite to his wife rs he had
pier some wives might be. If woman
would try to make herself and her home
as fair and as bright as in old counting
days, the married life would be happier.
A word of appreciation, encouragement,
or sympathy, glorifies all the weary
hours of dingy toll, as the light of the
setting sun touches with gold the spin
ner and the loom in the dark factory.
Socrates walked the streets of Athens
poorly clad and barefoot but yet his
wisdom and virtues were such, that
after his death his statue was nodded in
brass, and stood for the example of a
hero before the youth of this city.
About his home life there is not much
said, except in regard to the tongue of
Xantippe, his wife Whether he were
a martyr, or whether he may
not have been somewhat in fault him.
self, some are inclined to doubt. Al |
though his great philosophical soul |
might have remained unmoved, with the |
eaf III - ualkins beneath his feet, and the |
rocks rending before his eyes, yet he |
may have had but little patience with |
her about the household cares in which |
she needed his advice. There are great |
men, you know, might look calmly on a
tidal wave, who might exasperate a
saint-woman, We mean-Ey their indif-
ference to home concerns.
A mother in the country asked Der
laughter, "Annie, don't you want tod
for me?" The answerfil1
t Mother, wish you woula.F ask me ne
f I want to do thipee for you. VI
.onree don't Ha.s 10 particularly. but
~, I1;il;na co If Annie had been
her rich aunt Ii town,
I'D She have dared to answer in this
ray? But is not rlore courtesy due to
mother than any one else?
He wore neither cravat nor gloves,
mt his manners were full dress" She
7ore lovely Paris dress, but her man
ers were de731i toilette. "She looks
ivinely at party" is often said; but
is she divine at home ?" cannot always
@ afirmatively answered.
There is a sacred pattern but open
, all. The beginning of such a life at
ONE may be as still and silently sweet
8 the opening OF a rose in the darkness
{ night, but it's infuence-ah that is
8 Unreasonable as the heaven is higher
IAN the earth !