Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1883 — Manners. [ARTICLE]

Manners.

Young folks should be mannerly How to be so is the question. Many a good boy and girl feel that they cannot behave to suit themselves in the presence of company. They feel timid, bashful and self-distrustful, the moment they are addressed by a stranger or appear in company. There is but one way to get over this feeling and acquire graceful and easy manners; that is to do the best they can all the time at home as well as abroad. Good manners are not learned from arbitrary teaching so much as acquired from habit. They grow upon ns by use. We must be courteous, agreeable, civil, kind, gentlemanly, and womanly at home, and then it will soon become a

kind of second nature to be so everywhere. , A coarse, rough manner at home begate a habit 6f roughness which we cannot lay off, if we try, when we go among strangers. The most agreeable people we have ever known in company are those that are perfectly agreeable at home. Home is the school for all the best things, especially for good manners.