The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi," the "movies," "deadly" (meaning dull), "feeling fit," "feeling blue," "grafter," a "fake," "grouch," "hunch" and "right o!" are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude.

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.

Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves.