The Press., 1890-02-13
fired Nye in Omaha World Herald
 SHE WON'T. GO THAT WAY.

X am trylng to DrlnR UP cnliu ln coA- trast tc myself that is to say, in the way it should 90. In "Good Housekeeping ! find number of rules on "table etiquette for children: "'
 Give the child seat that shall be strictly it's own.
 Teach it to take its seat quietly.
 To use its napkin properly.
 To wait patiently to be served.
 To answer promptly.
 To say ''Thank you"
 If asked to leave the table for forgotten article to do 50 at once.
 Never to interrupt and never to contradict. Never to make remarks about the food, such as q saw that turkey killed, and how he did bleed" as once heard little boy re- mark at Thanksgiving dinner. Teach the child to keep its plate in order. Not to handle the bread or to drop food on the cloth and floor.
 To always say Excuse me, please, to the mother when at home, and to the lady or hostess when visiting, if leaving the table pe- fore the rest of the party. l To fold its napkin and put back us cnal1 or push it close to the table before leaving 1 After leaving the table not to return. 1 Now, my baby has 8 seat-a httle hign l chair-whlch Is strictly her own. Sne ais so has little tray on which are her cup ol I mllk, a plate, a knife and fork, and numer, ous things for her to eat. nave 1ouno
 no particular trouble in providing her with
 this seat, but I do find it difficult to con l trol her impulse to crawl out of the seat en the table aad to sit on the tray and put sl her feet in the chair than 10 sit Ill tue Ichair and eat from the tray. Sometimes |she enjoys herself by sitting on her back lin the chair and putting her heels on the
 tray. She is 2x years old, and when tell liner to behave herself, she remarks very Iplacidly, II don't want to-" Thereupon tspeak severely and she begins to cry and 2 says, "Papa mustn't say dat-papa mustn't t
 do dat" Presently she ceases crying aud asks me to wipe her tears. wipe her
 tears away, and she snitfies little ana
 then flashes me roguish look from her
 brown eyes-and the dlmple plays on her
 cheek--and she quietly takes the cup ot
 milk from her tray and drops It on the floor. t"Well, "I say, ''you can't stay any
 longer-you are too bad. l shall have to take you away from the table," I go over to her and she reaches out her arms and
 remarks that she is ''papa's brave little lgirl' and 'papa's dalnty little fairy, and : that she wants to .'go up stairs and play
 wid de blocks.
 A What is a father to do who wishes to
 bring up child according to good rules : Shall I whip herr Could you whip ba.
 by who was asking you to wipe away hei
 tears :? Who was not bad or mean or ill tempered? Who was simply the incarna: jtion of the spirit of play? Who preferred blocks and picture books and the thousand ! tender and dainty fancies of her awakening
 mind to food? I might read her the rules
 from "Good Housekeeping, but somehow fear that 1t wouldn't be entirely prac.ica
 ble. I know that she ought not make re
 marks about the food, although there are
 ltimes when, under the reign of profession I al dynasties of cooks, her father drops {
 remark or two regarding that same-bu t when she looks at me with an interest al
 most religious in its intensity, and ask l me if like pie, do not feel like incarcer l ating her in dopjon keep for the infrac ton of etiquette-and when she turns he eyes with the unconscious condescensiol
 Iofa childhood upon her grandmother ant announces, 'sl like grandma's pie" evel tkthat experienced lady, who has raised tmany children, knows fully as much abou ! the business, judging from results, as tn } average magazine writer, Is not displease' . lenongh to talkaabout.
 , |sfaI wonder what we should do at ou house if that baby should sit quietly il } her chair through one meal, should wal . patiently for her dessert, should say ''than . you," should not interrupt, should kee , her plate in order, should fold her napkin ; and follow the other commandments lai . down by the writer in .'Good HousekeeI
 ing" I imagine that some of us woul