Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-26
MANNERS.


superintendent Dick said he believed
that Lecturer Spicer had heard of either
five or six kinds of bad manners, he
was not sure which: and while the au-
dience were waiting, he himself would
tell them something he had heard his
grandmother say about manners. His
grandmother said that when her mother
was little girl, children in the coun-
try who were outdoors playing or
walking, used to make bows and court
estes to people who were riding past.
The boys made bows and the girls made
courtesies, and doing this was called
making their manners" Superin-
tendent Dick said that if the girls pres
ent did not know how to make court
esy, he would show them; and then he
bobbed down and up in q very funny
way 'te is ~ s'. u ~
He then asked the audience to rise
and make their manners, upon which
they rose with much noise and quick
ness, and the boys made each one his
own kind of q bow, and the girls each
one her own kind of a courtesy, and
the whole effect was SO funny that SUI
perintendent Dick could net help
laughing, and neither could the boys
and girls themselves. In the midst of
the merriment Lecturer Spicer entered,
and the audience seated themselves as
quietly as they were able to. Lecturer
Spicer then took his stand in front, and
after making his manners, which is to
say. his bow, he began as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen, manner means
way, and = manner is a way, and man
ners mean ways. The ways you do
things are your manners. The ways
you look, the ways you speak, the ways
you act, the ways you move, the ways
you eat, are your manners. What you
do with your hat is part of your man
ners. do not mean, hanging it. up. i. /
mean taking it off or keeping it on.
Everybody has to have some
kind of manners, because every
body has to have some kind
of ways to do things. There are two
kinds of manners; will mention them.
Good ones and bad ones Your face
looks better when you are having good
manners than it looks when you are
having bad ones. l have heard of six
kinds of bad manners, and'one more. l
Bear manners, two, Donkey manners,
three; Post manners, four; Cock-a-doo-
dle-doo manners, five; Cow-in-the-par-
lor manners, six. -
First. Pig manners; and if you want
to know what they are, go look in
the pigs pen when their dinner is
being put into their trough. Every
piggy hurries to get the most, and get
the best. Every piggy looks out for it
self, and does not care about the other
ones. Children that have pig manners
are the kind that want to be helped first
at meal times, and want the best things
for themselves, and the biggest pieces.
They look out for themselves and do
not care about other people getting any
thing good.
Second. Bear manners. Children 4
that have bear manners are the kind
that are gruff, and glum, and growly.
They have cross-looking faces and some
times stick their lips out, and snarl, and
growl, and are most always a-grumbling
and a-growling about something they
want to do or they don't want. to, do.
They talk in this way: /" Find my hatr'
'' / want to 90 out!'' q. Open the DOORS
Z" / want something to eat!'' and never
think of a please or Hia,kt gou, and
they get cross very ofteng rnnd look \
cross. TsJo ,,,iitc l.s..s,a i
Third. Donkey manners Children
that have donkey manners are the kind
that want to do just what, they want to
and nothing else, no matter how much
you may ask them and coax them. If
you ask them 10 move, they STAY still,
If you ask them to stay still, they move.
If you ask them to keep quiet, thew
make noise. If you ask them to make
a noise, they keep quiet. If you ask
them to go of an errand, they say:
"DOn't want to!''or, al amt a-goirig
tor and the worst kind say: 81 will"
and % won't!' When they are play
ing, they never will do what the others
want to, but only what they themselves
want to. '' ''el i"''
Fourth. Post manners. Children that
have post manners are the kind that do
not answer when they are spoken to,
any more than a post would IL a
visitor says: "How do you dop' or;
:" Do you Like to play tagP'' or; e Do
you like pictures?" or butterflies, or
anything. they stand still as post and
do not speak; but may be If you should
ask them if they liked candy, they would
speak one word, and Il guess il would
be ycs. .et..., - t.,.,,t
Fifth. Cock-a-doodle-doo manners.
The children that have cock-a-doodle-
doc manners are the kind that feel big
and act so. When a rooster struts round
among hens he acts as il he felt so big
he. did not know what to do, and some
times he, seems TO feel so big that he
has to get up on a fence and clap his
wings, and crow, ''Cock-a-doodle-doo
Sometimes there'1 be lot of fellows
playing. and a cock-a- doodle-doo fellow
will come there, and he'll act as II he 4
thought he knew more than all the rest.
and thought he knew the right way to
do everything better than everybody,
and he'll give them the rules. and he'll
strut round like a rooster. and In his 1
house he does the same way TO his
mother and the other grown MP ones,
and ones that are not grown up That
kind of fellow ought to stand up on
the fence and clap bis wings-no,
mean. his elbows ana crow, % Cock-a-
doodle-dooi i know better than yout,'
Sixth. Cow-in-the-parlor manners. i
Children that have sCow-in-the-parlor
manners are the kind that are always
getting in somebody's way, or pushing
themselves in between people. or going
in front of people, or stepping on some
body's feet, or on bottoms of ladies'
clothes, or leaning against people, or
tipping their own chairs over. or knock
ing down q vase, or q work-basket, or
tumbler of water. They are as clumsy
as q cow in the parlor, and do not mind
what they are about any more than q
cow in the parior would what she Is
about. r.
Besides these kinds there is another
kind heard Of. called the Interrupters
Intenupters are the kind that begin to
talk while other people are speaking;
no matter who may be speaking; no
matter IL tits their father. or their
mother, or company. the Interrupters
do not wait for anybody to stop talking,
but break right in and say what they