Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1891 — Good Banner. [ARTICLE]

Good Banner.

Ferhape good manners are not good morals, though the time vras ( when the words morals and manners amounted to pretty much the same thing. When the New Testament was translated into English, in 1611, it taught its readers, and still teaches us, that “evil communications corrupt good manners.” And the revisers of 1880 have left lie good manners to stand, changing only eommunications into company. So i have very high authority for saying thai what I am driving at in this letter hat iomething to do with the basis of char •cter. A bad man may have the handsomest manners, the manners of a gen tleman, and thereby the more thoroughly fitted to work all manner of mischiei with greediness. He is a? hypocrite in the world, as one. who merely pretends to be a saint is a hypocrite in the •huroh. But the beginning, middle, and end of good manners maybe condensed into tht divinely given principle of preferring others to ourselves; denying self for the happiness of another ; rendering to everyone his due, as superior, inf eric*, or equal If mothers sown the manners of thr children, they should feel the burden of responsibility. They may permit the to bom waywardness of the child to g unchecked, while he grows to be a per: saaay. forward, disagreeable, dreadfui boy, a i*nror to the neighborhood, and » nuisance to everybody but his doting mamma. She gives him a stick of candy when a stick of something not so sweet would do him more good. She coddle* him into a corse that by and by will come upon her own head. Just as the twig, etc. Blood is great, and blessed are they who are well bom. But mow than blood, bettor than pedigree, is cut tore. Train up a child in the way he should fa. He will go in it then. Teach him to respect those who are older than himself ;to rise up before the aged. TEneai was pious, because he honored hit father. It is a long way toward godliness to obey one’s parents. And nappy is the parent uend happy ahild whee