SRT dob tetedetobeteeb fe degegetos: 
4 Character 
Lessons to 
Train Youth 
ss: By JAMES TERRY WHITE. 
(Copyright, 1909, by the Character Devel- 
Zz opment league. ] 
XXI.—Courtesy. 
HBRE was a 
little news- 
boy in New 
“York who was 
animated by the 
same spirit that 
caused Sir Wal- 
ter Raleigh to 
spread his coat 
for Queen Eliza- 
: beth to walk on. 
He was standing, 
with hundreds of 
little waifs, wait- 
ing for admit- 
tance outside of 
a mission hall, in 
which was to be a Christmas tree. 
The keen wind swept around the cor- 
ear, and the cold ground kept them all 
shivering. ‘ 
One little girl, with ragged shoes, 
seemed to suffer from the cold ground 
‘more than the others and kept shift- 
. ing from one foot to the other, vainly 
trying to keep her feet warm. The 
newsboy had been watching her for 
some time, forgetful of his own dis- 
comfort, and finally threw his tattered 
hat at her feet and, with the same 
_ ehivalrous spirit and -courtesy of 
Raleigh, said, “You can stand on 
sanat.” 
Courtesy implies a recognition of the 
other person’s dignity. It is treating 
- another as though that other were 
truly his ideal self. 
- Courtesy is perhaps more important 
in the family than anywhere else, be- 
cause in this relation people are 
' thrown most closely together and need 
_ the protection of courtesy, which is 
the best.means of avoiding unpleasant 
_ friction and unhappiness. 
Rudeness and boorishness sometimes 
spring from ignorance, but are more 
often the expression of selfishness, 
which forgets the feelings and tastes 
of others. 
_ Good manners have their roots in 
_ fight feeling, and the passport to good 
society is fine manners. The Alad- 
din’s lamp of success in business is 
courtesy. It costs nothing and buys 
everything. 
Emerson says that manners are the 
happy way of doing things, each at 
once a stroke of genius or of love, now 
repeated and hardened into usage. 
They form at last a rich varnish with 
which the routine of life is washed 
and its details adorned. Give a boy 
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‘JAMES T. WHITE. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
nuaresSs ANA ACCOMplishinents, 1nd you 
give him the mastery of palaces and 
fortune. Your manners are always 
under examination by committees lit- 
tle suspected and by police in citizens’ 
clothes, who are awarding or denying 
you high prizes when you least think 
of it. Manners impress, as they indi- 
cate real power. 
A boy canne* too early learn to take 
off his hat when spoken to; in a little 
while it will become instincttve. and 
he will take it off «:t‘omatically upon 
proper occasions. Let him also remem- 
ber that the hall mark of good breed- 
ing is not to interrupt. 
The word “gentleman” is a homage 
to certain indefinable and incommuni- 
eable qualities which attract persons 
of every country, and it is at once felt 
as if the individual gave the Masonic 
sign of nobility of character. It is a 
sign of the spirit rather than of the 
talent of men. 
Thomas Fuller relates that when 
Queen Elizabeth upon one occasion 
came to a muddy spot in her path Sir 
Walter Raleigh, one of her attendant 
courtiers, immediately spread _ his 
splendid velvet cloak over the mire 
that her majesty might cross without 
soiling her feet. This act of princely 
courtesy has become historic. But 
when our friends, who are the royalty 
in our lives, come upon the mudholes 
of our making—the disagreeablenesses, 
the annoyances, the irritations of life— 
shall we be less chivalric than Sir 
Walter? Following the example of 
that loyal devotion, should we not cast 
our best mantle of courtesy and cheer- 
ful diversion over the mire that our 
friends may walk over unstained and 
even unaware of soil or discomfort? 
Such opportunities occur every day 
and are the test of the loyalty of our 
courtesy. 
Practice.—Let every one say that to- 
fay he is an attendant upon a queen 
and try to behave as though he were 
a courtier. 
Literature. 
Good manners include tact, cour- 
tesy and teiquette; but, both in time 
and importance, tact comes first, cour- 
tesy second and etiquette last and is 
least of all.—Lyman Abbott. 
Life is not so short but that there is 
always time enough for courtesy.— 
Emerson. 
The gentle minde by 
knowne, 
For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed 
As by his manners. 
—Edmund Spenser. 
gentle deeds is 
Bow sweet and gracious even in common 
speech 
Is that fine sense which men call courtesy! 
Wholesome as air and genial as the light, 
Welcome in every clime as breath of flow- 
ers, 
{t transmutes aliens into trusting friends 
And gives its owner passports round the 
globe. 
—James T. Fields. 
Good breeding is religion done in 
terms of everyday life. It is an in- 
stinct wrapped up in the very tissues 
of our being.—C. H. Henderson. 
Telephone 
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FOREST WARDEN NOTICE 
This is to inform the public that I have 
been appointed Forest Warden for Man- 
chester by Mr. F. W. Rane, State Forester, 
and I have appointed the following as my 
deputies: 
M. E. GORMAN, 
NATHAN P. MELDRUM, 
JOSEPH P. LEARY, 
LORENZO BAKER, 
JAMES SALTER, 
JACOB H. KITFIELD, 
WM. YOUNG, 
FRED’K BURNHAM, Forest Warden. 
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By Machinery. 
Work Done Promptly and at a Sav- 
ing from the Old-Fashioned Way. 
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North Street - - Manchester 
Telephone 139-13 
Location of Fire Alarm Boxes 
31. Electric Light Station. 
33. Telephone Exchange Office. 
34. Summer Street, P. H. Boyle’s Stable. 
41. Corner Bridge and Pine sts. 
43. Corner Harbor and Bridge sts. 
52. Fire Engine house, School st. 
54. Corner School and Lincoln sts. 
56. School st., opp. the grounds of the 
Essex County club. 
61. Sea st., H. 8S. Chase’s House. 
62. Corner Beach and Mosconomo. 
64. ‘Lobster Cove.’’ 
Two blasts, all out or under control. 
Three blasts, extra call. 
Directions for giving an alarm: Break 
the glass, turn the key and open the do~r, 
pull the hook down once and let go. 
JAMES HOARE, Chief, 
GEORGE 8S. SINNICKS, 
CLARENCE W. MORGAN, 
Engineers of Fire Department. 
Manchester Post Office 
SAMUEL L. WHEATON, Postmaster. 
MAILS Ci.0SE 
For Boston, North, East, West and 
South, a and 10.04 a. m., 1.05, 4.51 and 
7.55 p. 
For Giaicoster and Rockport, 11.12 a. 
m., 2.38, 5.24 and § p. m. For Magnolia, 
2.38, 5.24 and 8 p. m. 
MAILS DUE 
From Boston on trains due at 7.02, 9.13 
and 11.42 a. m., 3.08 and 5.54 p. m. 
From Gloucester and Rockport, 7.27 and 
10.34 a. ms 1.35 and 5.19 p. m. rom 
Magnolia, 7.27 a. m. and 1.35 p. m. 
SUNDAY MAIL arrives from Boston at 
9.07, closes for Boston at 9.50 a. m. 
The office will be open on seaoar from 
7 to 10.05 a. m. Sundays from 9. 30 to 
10.30 a. m. 
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