he rights of all members of the household. Remember that each
one has a perfect right to open his or her own correspondence. No
difference if one is ready to confide the contents of the letter the
moment it is read, there is still a pleasure in opening one's own
correspondence.

Respect the belongings of another, no matter how close the
relationship. The careful member of the family suffers at seeing his
belongings misused and destroyed by the careless one. Discourage
borrowing among the members of a family. Teach each one to have all
necessary articles of their own and to care for them properly.

Guests in a family should also be very careful in this respect. Boxes,
drawers, or any repositories of any kind, should be scrupulously
respected. Private papers, even if not protected by lock and key,
should not be glanced at. A due observance of these rules, while
making home life pleasanter, might in after years lead to a little
less tampering with the larger rights of law and property, for
"manners are but the shadows of great virtues."

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ETIQUETTE FOR CHILDREN.

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Jean Paul Richter, in his great work on education (_Levana_),
intimates that we scarcely realize the momentous possibilities that
lie all about us folded up in the heart of childhood, as the blushing
petals of the beauteous blossom yet to be lie folded close within the
sheltering calyx.

"Do you know," he queries, "whether the little boy who plucks flowers
at your side may not one day, from his island of Corsica, descend as a
war-god into a stormy universe to play with hurricanes for
destruction, or to purify and plant the world with harvests?" And just
because we do not know the extent of these possibilities, children
must be carefully trained to fill whatever post or province may be
theirs in the time to come.

Now, they are in our hands to mold as we will; then, they will be the
masters, and much of the character of their sway will depend upon the
guidance of the present. Viewed in this light, the manners and the
morals of children, closely associated as they are, become of the
greatest importance to the world.

Power of Example.

Teach the embryo man or woman, in the nursery, the traits, the habits,
the customs of the best etiquette, and you have stamped upon them, at
an age when the character is impressible as wax, not only the outer
semblance, but, in a great degree, the inner reality, of a true man or