Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1899 — Good Breeding. [ARTICLE]

Good Breeding.

Good breeding is not merely the superficial politeness found in society; It is a general walk in life which always avoids giving unnecessary pain, which sinks self, and which is uniformly kind to all people. A factory girl, in this sense, may be, and often is, as well bred as a princess. The very height of good breeding is to be able to behave one’s self properly, and there are millions of hard-working matrons and maidens everywhere who can do that The flowers and the fun, the frolics and the fairy-like abundances of enjoyment which wealth can purchase are often, it may seem, unequally divided. But good breeding, the art of always being frank and yet dignified, of patient selfcontrol, of thought for others, of kindness to all, is as general as the gift of a heart.