Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-13

1eAiiAoea u Adll-oFed ana Dadly-bred chill
aren who atfiict our country and give il
4 name for bad manners at home and
abToac.
\ boy cannot learn too early 10 defer
to every woman. from his mother To fbe
housemaid and the little girl next door.
IN kindergarten lately, the amazenlent
OF small boy when instructed to cross
behind the little girls instead of in front
OF them was a melancholy comment ON
his home training. Yet he came of what
would be called a well-bre6 family
Homes where father and mother are
supposed to be people of refinement. and
yet where the boys and girls quarrel all
day long. and where steady pickering ac-
companies each meal. are sadly fire.
quent. No real courtesy can ever come
out of such home circles. There will be
surface pollteness. but no true breeding.
Ii Is the part of every well-born moth
ef 20 see that her boys and girls. from
infancy, learn courtesy, IN its every de-
tail, IN the beautiful spirit of noblesse
oohge- 1t Is the opportunity of every
mother who desires to rise in the social
scale to train her children from their
cradles III the courtesies of life so that
they shall take their places, by right
among the well-bred. Instead of that.
the American mother too often has all
the pollteneSS of the whole family. She
lets the children's manners drift into
not taught, day after day, TO respect the
rights of the weaker. TO wait upon the
aged. to show consideration to servants
and to dependents, to do courteous acts
involving a little self-denial or the sac
rihce of their own convenience. No
child learns these things by nature. and
no one learns them easily after the years
of youth. Il cannot help having good
manners, said a young woman whose
charm of courtesy was SO great that. all
though not q beauty, she won hosts of
admirers wherever she went Il cannot
remember a time when my father and
mother We're not teaching ME politeness.
and insisting upon it, | haven't good
memory. but | can't forget my manners
they're ingrained since years old. and
it is not | who ought to be praised for
them. but my parents" The seed of
courtesy must be sown by parents. and
sown early, if its lovely flowers are to
bloom in their fulnass later on.-Harper's
Bazaar.
1850
What Have You Been Reading?
In the March issue of Woman's Home
Companion, DR.. Edward Everett Hale
aptly reminds us of the Importance of
systematic reading. and sets forth the
ground rules for such Il system, in part
as follows:
Here we are scattered over S,00,00O
square miles, more or less, and we are
making our plans. Into these plans
systematic reading shall come. Just as
certain as sleep or breakfast or dinner
or supper, BY systematic reading /
mean that besides the newspaper and
the magazine and the novel there shall
be one hour of every day devoted to
reading on system. Make it more if
you like, though | shall not let you
90 nd H,,f
hour at least in a day there must be.
Thus | take it for granted that you
have in your own room, on your own
table, your Bible, your hymn book, and
some one or two other books which will
help you in your daily intercourse with
the good God. Each one of you can
choose these for yourself.
You ought to be grounded in a fash
ion in the history of the town, of the
state and of the country. l do not care
whether you were born there or not. You
must not let any accidental visitor ever
ask you what was the origin of things
there while You are unable to tell him.
Was the place first open to Christian
civilization when La Sale came down
the river; or when the Hampshire
grants were quarreled about, or when
Capt. Gray, in the Columbia, came to
anchor?
And you ought TO know decently well
the history of the state, whether that
written history be 800 years old of three
months old. Do not let me come into
Oklahoma this summer and ask you
about the history of the emigration of
the Cherokees into the Indian Territory
or the sun worship of the Greeks, and
find out that you know no more about it
than | do. And side by side with this
and as basis of this, you must have
a decent acquaintance with the history
of the United States"
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