THE RISING (?) GENERATION.
ro THE EDITOR. Sir, —We hear a good deal these days about school clinics to teach children to look after their teeth and health generally. Those who travel in public vehicles must at times have a fear that something even much more important is being neglected either at school or at home, or possibly both—viz., teaching good manners, which involves character. While travelling in a small city tram ear to-day I saw an elderly man with grey hair, obviously well on to 70 years, have to stand for two sections while five children, all under 12 years of age—some of them with their parents—stuck firmly to • their seats’ and never offered to make room for the elderly strap hanger. A sign of the times'?—! am. etc.. Manners Maketn Man. October 4. '■*
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Evening Star, Issue 24007, 4 October 1941, Page 13
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134THE RISING (?) GENERATION. Evening Star, Issue 24007, 4 October 1941, Page 13
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