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Lessons on Manners For Home and School Use

Edith E. Wiggin

Book Overview: 

It is true that good manners, like good morals, are best taught by the teacher's example. It is also true that definite lessons, in which the subject can be considered in its appropriate divisions, are of no little value if we would have our children attain to "that finest of the fine arts, a beautiful behavior."

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Returning salutations.
Carrying an umbrella.
Eating in the street.
Throwing things on the sidewalk.
Marking walls and fences.
Looking at windows of private houses and pointing at objects.
Staring at or laughing at infirmities.
Answering questions.
Offering assistance. Incidents.


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LESSON III. MANNERS ON THE STREET.

Manners on the street are especially important, because many see us there who never see us elsewhere, and they will judge us and our home and school training by our good or bad behavior there.

Noisy and boisterous conduct on the street is always unbecoming. No well-bred boy or girl will ever try to attract attention there. To make one's self conspicuous in public is a sure sign of ignorance and ill-breeding.

If we wish to speak to a person on the other side of the street, though it be only a schoolmate, the proper way is not to call to him, but to cross over quietly and speak.. . . Read More