Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.