VALUE OF COURTESY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20065, 23 March 1935, Page 11

VALUE OF COURTESY

GOOD MANNERS AGAIN Good manners are a good investment, looking at it from a practical point of view, and according to English writers the pendulum is swinging again from a brusque and over-bearing behaviour to gentleness and courtesy. A good manner always commands respect, and is often the deciding factor when an employer has to choose, between one who suits his purpose but is ungracious, and another who also suits his purpose and has the added attraction of good manners. A very great percentage of employers have within the last few years realised that a good manner and pleasing ways have an influence all their own in business, and they value these things to the full. Older people in particular greatly appreciate charming manners m young people, and small courtesies shown to them are never wasted. A woman always appreciates charming manners in a man, and it is good to think that with the return to favour of manners,

young men will lose some of the extreme casualness which has characterised their attitude to women during recent years, for men always follow the lead which women give in these things, and they could hardly demand good manners from men while they had none themselves.