Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-04-11
MANNERS IN CHILDHOOD.
ThS Importance of Proper Training and
It's After Consequences.

The Importance of Proper Training and
Its After Consequences.
The psalmist has told us under what
conditions q dinner Of herbs ia to be
preferred. And there are others, grow
Ing out OF this complicated civilization
OF ours, OF which he had no prophetic
vision. Eating is one of the necessi-
ties OF existence which man shares in
common with the animals The Ger
man language has two words, one,
"essen," applied to mankind; the other,
"fressen," used only to signify the
feeding of the lower orders.
The distinction is subtitle, and offers
food for reflection. There are instances
where the latter term might be ap-
propriately applied to men and women,
and where dainty creatures, like we'll
bred dogs and horses, in their modera-
ton and temperance, deserve the
former.
Perhaps there Is no place where the
real manner so asserts itself as at table.
A man may speak irreproachable En-
gl1sh, yet take liberties with his knife
that prove he has retained some of the
instincts Of his remote ancestry. A
woman may be gracious and amiable,
yet eat her soup noisily and sit with her
elbows near her plate while she talks.
1t is only the vulgar who sneer at the
small proprieties. They are the line Of
demarcation between civilization and
barbarism, based upon common sense
and a recognition of the rights of Others
Parents are culpably negligent who per-
nit their children to eat carelessly; who
do not teach them to handle the knife
and fork properly, and remove the spoon
from the cup. With our constantly
changing social conditions it is, as An
drew Carnegie has promulgated, but
three generations from shirt sleeves to
shirt sleeves The son of the black
smith twenty years hence will be in the
Senate or the Cabinet; his daughter will
attain distinction elsewhere, and it is
due them that in childhood they should
be fitted for the very highest place they
may attain. Ease, refinement, conform
tty to necessary social laws can not be
acquired In after life by any easy
natural method, "as French and German
are now taught. The manner, which is
tneffacable, which is the outward mani
festation of character, m" It grow with
the growth, and training q n not begin
too soon. The genial autocrat calls
attention to the immense conclusions
touching our lives, our fortunes and our
sacred honor" which may be reached
by means Of very insignificant prem
ises." He says 'this IL eminently true
OF manners and forms OF speech; move
ment or phrase tells you all you want
to know about q narSon - Ha oonoludoo
his observation with: Talk to me
about Cuvier's getting up megatherium
from tooth, or Agassiz's drawing por-
trait Of an undiscovered fish from o sim
gle scale. AS the 90 revealed Siotto-
as the one word moi" betrayed the
Stratford-and- -Bow-taught Anglais-so
gil mans antecedents and possibilities
are summed up in a single utterance
which gives at once the gauge Of his ed
ucation and his mental organization"
tits true that II the blacksmith's son, in
his future high position, should eat with
his knife, or the daughter drink from
her finger Dowl, no u. pardonabIe Sin
will have been commit Led. But both
will suffer keenly, conscious of their
shortcomings, and If they do not then
their state is still more deeply deplor-
able. For there is in all this world no
individual 80 much to be dreaded as the
man who is oblivious Of tho rights of 9TH
ers- the coarse, calloused, self-sufffcient
person entirely satisfied with himself
under all circumstances and in all
places.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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