Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . st also be shown toward servants and dependants, and nounnecessary demands made upon their time or services. Obedience. Prompt obedience should always be demanded of a child, and thespirit of murmuring and questioning firmly repressed. None cancommand except they have first learned to obey. Do not allow children to tease, nor, having once refused on goodand sufficient ground, suffer your consent to be gained by your refusal final, but do not
Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . st also be shown toward servants and dependants, and nounnecessary demands made upon their time or services. Obedience. Prompt obedience should always be demanded of a child, and thespirit of murmuring and questioning firmly repressed. None cancommand except they have first learned to obey. Do not allow children to tease, nor, having once refused on goodand sufficient ground, suffer your consent to be gained by your refusal final, but do not refuse thoughtlessly, or for merecaprice. The wishes of a child are as real to him as those of grownpeople are to them. Manner of Address. Rudeness and abruptness must never be tolerated in the mannersof a child. Yes, and no, in reply, and what? in interrogatory 5are uncouth and disagreeable in sound. Yes, sir, Yes, maam,and What, maam, are much better substituted, but even these areopen to criticism. English etiquette relegates Sir and Maamto the use of servants, save in case of addressing the higher nobilitywhen Sir is sometimes THE NURSERY. 1*3 184 ETIQUETTE FOR CHILDREN. The better and more graceful etiquette of the day would teach achild to say, Yes, mamma, No, papa; or a student at school toaddress the teachers as, Yes, Prof. Stanley, No, Miss Living-stone. If they fail to understand a remark, a quick, Beg pardon,or, I beg your pardon, or even, I did not understand, can soonbe taught to even childish lips and never be forgotten as they advanceto maturity. The use of Please, and Thank you, or, I thankyou, (never the thankless Thanks,) should be early impressed upontheir minds. Teach them never to speak of grown people without prefixingMr., Mrs., or Miss, to their name. It is very objectionablefor a child to fall into the habit of saying Brown did so and so,instead of, Mr. Brown, etc. Insist, too, that at school they shallnever say Teacher, but address their precept
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