Mannerly Children.
A l'UKTTirvjr dressed child is always attractive looking, but if it is ruda and ill bred fine clothes will have no ollect upon tho general mind. A clean, plainly dressed child, with good manners, is always noticed with pleasure, spoken of and generally admired ; therefore good manners are of the groatrst importance to children. They should not only be neat and clean m their habits, but they should be taught to be civil, obliging and kindly to every one. If they aro allowed to snarl and fret, be rude to their brothers and sisters ami friends, they will bo nuisances always to bo avoided. Teach your little child to say: "Please, mamma!" " Please, papa ! " for every favor he desires, and it will give him tho keynote to pleasing manners, llcbuke tlifi cross words he speaks, taking groat care at the samo timo that ho doos not learn them from your lips. Children possess strong imitative powers and will show you a small likeness of yourself if you only have the ability to recognise the portrait and apply it. Children kept m the nursery will often becomo very shy with strangers Teach them to come forward and shako hands, t
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 19, 20 December 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)
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