The broad ax., 1918-10-05
SPECIAL CARE OF CHILDREN
WHILE TRAVELLING on RAIL-
Road TRAINS.
By Mrs Max west

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weekly articles on CHOW Mothers Can
Help in Childrens Year"
When is q child well-behavedi
Children's Year has called attention
to many needs Of children which are
problems for their mothers. Malnutri-
ton and the bearing on the ehildren's
health of the relation between the inches
of his height and the ounces Of his
weight are questions just beginning to
be understood which Children's Year
has brought before millions Of mothers.
But training her child to wear his good
manners as If they belonged to him
and were not borrowed for the occasion
is a problem Of no recent origin. Re-
gard for the feelings and desires of
others has always been the basis of good
manners, but the expression Of such re-
gard and methods of intoxicating it are
very different today from what they
were a generation ago. Then "man-
ners'' in children consisted in paying
rigid Difference to their elders and su-
periors.
Nowadays children are treated more
humanely and given much wider lati-
tude in their relations with grown peo-
pie. Other standards of conduct have
very largely changed. Pessimistie OBJ
servers are prone to regard the change
as not altogether favorable, and to at
tribute to this some loss of Difference
to the presence and opinion of parents,
teachers and other adults a correspond
ing loss in manners and behavior, and
even a real loss of moral fiber:
It must be remembered that the rule
"other times, other manners" applies
generally. Life is a very different
thing for most children of today than
it was for their parents, certainly for
their grandparents. With the whole
some and desirable growth Of eomrade-
ship between growing boys and girls
and their elders, the old rules Of prop
err behavior must necessarily have given
way to something less formal The
change has probably been in the diree-
ton of the development of strength Of
character and independent Judgment in
children. But that they have also lost
something is perhaps equally certain.
To remedy this loss by teaching them
the rules Of true courtesy is the bust
ness of thoughtful parents. Such an
achievement may well be one Of the
valuable by-products of the Children Is
Year campaign which the Children s
Bureau of the U. s. Department of La
Dor and the woman's Committee of the
Council of National Defense are con-
Quoting.
Good manners in children as well
as grown people are the expression of
an innate consideration for the rights,
privileges and opinions of other peO-
pie. Years Of experience have crystal
lized this feeling into certain eonven-
tional forms of expression, which every |
child should be taught. The little habits
of courtesy, which should be a part of |
everyday life, are really the "outward
and visible sign of inward grace" Few
are more valuable to any
one than that charm Of manner which
wins the immediate regard of everyone
with whom they come into contact. To
teach children good manners must be
the work of every day and hour. cline
upon line" they will learn the little
eourtesies. Children are so initiative
that very much of this win be uneon-
'eiOusly acquired through imitation of
The habits and manners Of their elders.
Thank YOU" and eff you please,
md excuse me, please come easily
20 the tongue if they are frequently
heard, and Theology who sees his father
Use when a lady comes into the room
will instinetively follow that example,
wen with very little direct instruction.
ioOd manners at table are 50 necessary
o the comfort of everyone concerned
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