CHILDREN’S SAYINGS.
The word originality reminds me (Mrs Nelsh, M.A.P.) of one of my favourite topics, the novel views and thoughts of children. Their observation of the etiquette and mannerisms of 11 grown-ups ” is often much more acute than we suppose. A little friend of mine, three years old, was going out last week to a party when his mother said, ” Well, Robbie, I expect you are going to have a lovely time, don’t you? Now, I wonder what sort of a party it will be.” “ Oh, all ‘ please ’ and ‘ thank you,’ I expect,” said this mile, who evidently looked oh a party more or less as a lesson in manners. Another mother told me of a little girl, who, on leaving a party, said with a charming air of tact to her hostess, “ Thank you so very much for having us, we have enjoyed ourselves so much”— and here she paused and turned to a small brother —“ was that all muuuy said, Freddie, dear ?”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 443, 10 December 1908, Page 3
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165CHILDREN’S SAYINGS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 443, 10 December 1908, Page 3
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