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  HOW TO TEACH MANNERS
  IN THE SCHOOL-ROOM.


  BY MRS. JULIA M. DEWEY,

  METHOD AND CRITIC TEACHER IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF RUTLAND, VT.;
  FORMERLY SUPT. OF SCHOOLS, HOOSIC FALLS, N. Y.


      “Who misses or who wins the prize?
      Go, lose or conquer, as you can;
      But if you fail, or if you rise,
      Be each, pray God, a gentleman.”

      --_Epilogue to Dr. Birch and his Pupils._


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  THE A. S. BARNES COMPANY
  NEW YORK AND CHICAGO




  COPYRIGHT, 1888
  E. L. KELLOGG & CO.
  NEW YORK




INTRODUCTION.


Importance of the definite teaching of manners. Children are close
imitators; they will learn some kind of manners, and one who
teaches positively or emphatically (or contrariwise) may often see
a miniature of himself in his young pupil. With this truth in mind
one can hardly attach too much importance to punctilious politeness
on the teacher’s part in his intercourse with pupils. But however
polite a teacher may be, the informal or unconscious teaching of
manners is not enough. The school-room does not afford opportunity
to exemplify all the necessary practices in good manners, and
