The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-06-09
MANNERS FOR HOlS.

MANNERS FOR 8OlS.
Common Rules Of Society that Every Gentle
man should Observe.
Poor fellows How they get hectored
and scolded and snubbed, and how con-
tinual is the rubbing and polishing and
drilling which every member of the
family feels at liberty to administer.
No wonder their opposition is aroused
and they begin to feel that every mans
hand is against them, when, after all, if
they were only, in quiet way, informed
of what was expected of them, and their
manliness appealed to, they would readi-
ly enough fall into line.
So thought "Auntie NJ. as she pointed
out the following for little twelve year
old nephew, who was the eight of her
eyes, if not always the Joy Of her heart,
for though good-natured, amiable boy
in the main, he would offend against the
':proprieties'' frequently.
First come manners for the street.
Hat lifted in saying 'sgood-bye" OF
':How do you do?''
Hat lifted when offering scat in cal
or in acknowledging favor.
Keep step with any one you walk with.
Always precede a lady up stairs and
ask her if you may precede her in pass,
ing through crowd or public place.
Hat off the moment you enter a street
door and when you step into private
hall or Office.
Let lady pass first always unless she
ask you to precede her.
III the parlor stand till every lady in
the room is seated, also older people.
Rise if a lady comes in after you are
seated and stand till she takes seat.
Look people straight in the face when
speaking OF being spoken to.
Let ladies pass through a door first,
standing aside for them.
In the dining room take your seat
after ladies and elders.
Never play with knife, fork or spoon.
Do not take your napkin IN bunch IN
your hand.
Eat as fast or as slow as others and
finish the course when they do.
Rise when ladies leave the room and
stand till they are out.
If all so out together, gentlemen stand
by the door till ladies pass.
Special rules for the mouth are that al
noise in eating and smaking of the lips
should be avoided.
Cover the mouth with hand or napkin
when obliged to remove anything from
it.
Use your handkerchief unobstrusively
always.
Do not look toward a bedroom dool
when passing. Always knock at any
private room door. These rules are i'm
perative. There are many other little
points which add to the grace of a gen,
tleman, but to break any of these is
almost objectionable.
ssDid you make up all these rules.
auntie?" said Roy, as a copy neatly
printed by type writer was placed II
his hands.
"aIake them up? No. These are just
the common rules Of society that every
gentleman observes. You will not fine
your father failing in one Of them
'.Well, but he is man, - said Roy
deprecatingly.
':And do you not wish to be manly
boy?"
Roy said nothing, but it was noticed
that the rules were placed very carefully
in his drawer.
Some months have since passed an(
.,lntie has had the pleasure Of hearing
repeatedly the remark, What a manly
thoughtful little nephew You have, a:
one and another observed his polite ant
careful attention to others.
Perhaps there are some other boy:
who will like to cut out these rules ant
read them over now and then, keeping
or getting some good friend to keep /
record of their success or short-comlng
in observance, always remembering tha
the mothers, sisters and aunties are tht
"ladies': to whom these attentions should
be shown, and not merely to the CUES
and stranger.-yonkers Gazette.