The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
A BOYS HAT.
A Few Words on POliteneSs, by Aunt
 Marjorie Precept.

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 A Few Words POliteneSs, by Aunt
 Marjorie Preccpt.
 ''I hunted all over the house for my hat, and where do you suppose it was all the while? On my head" And Bob threw himself on the rug at my feet, and laughed mcrrily at his ab- sence of mind. Why don't you laugh, Aunt Marjorie?" he asked Don't you think it was queer that l didn't feel it, and areu't you afraid I'm going to be like grandpapa, who goes hunt ing for his spectacles when they are on his forehead in plain sight?"
 ''Your hair is so thick and curly, Bob dear" was my reply, after @ mo- ment's gaze into the bright blue eyes, land your hat is such light affair, that I'm not surprised at your not feel ing it on your head. But the reason 1 didn't laugh was this: I was shocked at your keeping your hat on your head in the house-at your habit of doing this. Why, my dear, you could do few things more ungentlemanly. A mans hat, Bob, should come off the instant he sets foot within his own door,"
 Don't you think, aunty," said the boy, rOguishly, ''that you attach a good deal of importance to trihes?"
 May be so" said |; ''but you must remember that in etiquette there are no trifes. Every little thing is really important The uncovering of the head when indoors is a sign of defer- ence to the mistress of the house, and to the ladies and girls who live in it a sign that boy respects his mother and sisters.
 Mamma is very much mortified, said Bob, ''if I keep my hat on in the parlor when she has company. But a fellow forgets once in awhile, Aunt Marjorie"
 "A fellow never forgets, I said, eff he is in the habit of always doing the right thing. Once establish the habit, Bob. and you could no more lounge into the parlor with hat on than you could keep your hat on in the school room after the professor had called the classes to order"
 Bob gave low, amused whistle. '1 think I see myself doing that!" he chuckled. ''Wouldn't old Feverfew growl, thought I should find myself with a hundred lines to write after school. But, Aunt Marjorie, to whom should boy lift his hat in the street?"
 ''To his father of course, and to his mother and his mothers friends; to the girls he knows; to a lady, even a stranger, if she asks him to tell her the way, or if he performs any service for her"
 ''It's an awful bother," remarked Bob, plaintively.
 There is your mistake, my dear It is no bother, but, in fact, is done so naturally by gentleman or @ gentle manly boy that he never thinks of the thing as a trouble. He lifts his hat automatically whenever there is any reason to do SO. "
 Automatically? Isn't that a tre-
  does it mean?"
 "It means this, Bob: When one does thing ones self so we'll and so easily that one has not to think about it in the doing, it is said to be done auto matically. When you began to learn the banjo you picked the notes out slowly, and thought about every one, but you can play dozen tunes to-day and think of something else while you are playing. You breathe automatic ally, unless you take cold and every breath causes you pain. You read au- tomatically. Doesn't it seem like a dream that you once had to spell your words over slOwly?"
 ''I see," said Bob.
 "While we're talking on thls sub ject let me remind you of something else A gentleman-and boy, if well-bred, is as much gentleman at ten as at twenty-always rises when a lady comes into the room, and waits until she has taken @ seat before he resumes his own. He gives his mother the most comfortable chair, and IS at pains to place a hassock for her feet, and to set the lamp where it's light will fall pleasantly on her book. A boy W hO thinks of these little things is always favOrite wherever ne goes. "- Hdrper's Young People.