ed. He becomes hopelessly self-conscious thereby.

A child should be taught to respect the rights of the father and
mother to the easiest chairs in the room, or those which they may
prefer, and should leave those chairs vacant until the father and
mother are seated elsewhere.

The boy who has been brought up at home, both by precept and by his
father's example, never to seat himself at the dining table or in the
family sitting-room until his mother is seated, will not need to be
told that he should rise in a crowded street car and give his seat to
an elderly woman. He will do it so instinctively that it will not be a
burden,--indeed, the regret would be more keen if he could not do it.

If children are present at the dining table, it is wiser to help them
first, and the grown people last, than the reverse. In everything it
is well to follow the etiquette of adult life, as, for instance, by
helping the girls before the boys.

Children should be taught to be punctual at meals, not simply for the
sake of health, but out of consideration for the cook and for those
who might otherwise be obliged to wait for them. They should not be
allowed to hurry through a meal because of their impatience to get at
play, although they may be wisely excused when they are quite through.
There is no value in making them the bored, squirming, or subdued
listeners to conversation quite beyond their comprehension or
interest. They should be taught to eat leisurely, and to regard the
mealtime as a chance to talk with their parents about interesting
things, and not simply as a time to be shortened and slighted if
possible.

Usually the child's first rigid lesson in punctuality comes at the
beginning of school life. Then, most profitably, may be cultivated a
sense of the rights of others, and of his individual responsibility
toward the social group, represented for him by his teacher and
schoolmates. If the emphasis is rightly laid upon the necessity of his
not delaying the work of his classmates and teacher, he will naturally
find many ways in which he may apply the same thought, greatly to his
own advantage and to theirs as well, and to the permanent
strengthening of his habits of work.

A keen sense of social oneness may also prevent the too frequent
heart-burnings among shy and sensitive children. This is as easily
cultivated as is the opposite, and is of great importance both in
childhood and in later life. The seeming injustice of the