How To Treat Your Neighbours
Home Specialists Views
J OUISA KAY. the American expert on home problems, has offered a few suggestions for promoting goodwill witli your neighbours. Neighbours, she says, are a problem no matter which social stratum you live in. ll -re a i her ideas :—
(1) The finest inducement you can offer your fellow-creatures to stick to their own business is simply to stick to yours. (2) In a community of neighbours, kindliness and courtesy invariably meet with a similar response.
(3) When ymir terrier breaks down the flowers in’ your neighbour's garden and she adopts an offensive tone in
calling your attention to it, overwhelm her with courteous apologies. She is enf’tkd to them.
(4) Retaliation is silly. It gets yon nowhere, unless it i; into more trouble. Dignity is more devastating than tantrums, and a sense humour is the most, precious contribution you can bring to the problem of neighbourliness. (5) IE you make free of your neigh--1 ours’ houses, yor must expect them to make free of yours—-possibly with less restraint.. If you indulge in scandalous speculation as to the private affairs o'f others, you must expect to come on to the dissecting table in your turn.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 278, 20 August 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)
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203How To Treat Your Neighbours Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 278, 20 August 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)
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