Good Manners.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 994, 20 March 1891, Page 5

Good Manners.

There are several things always absent in a true lady which girls will do well to notice and remember : A lady, for example, will never ignore little kindnesses. Conclude in a crowd that she has a right to pnsh her way through. Consume the time of people who can ill spare it. Wear on the street a dress only fitted to the house or oarraige. Talk loudly i i public places. Wear a torn glove, when a needle and thread and a few stiches would make it all right. Kail in answering letters or returning visits unless she is ill or in trouble. Fret about the heat or cold, the sun or rain, the air or lack of it. Make an engagement and then not be in time. Complain of her family, or discuss personal affairs with strangers. Always believe the worst rather than the best side cf a story. A lady does not do any other than make the beat of everything—the world, the weather, and herself. She believes in the Golden Rule, and endeavours as far as pos. Bible to live up to it; and that’s what you and I ought to promise every morning that we will try to do daring the day.