Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly
circumstances.
If you have nothing but a
stuffed with sawdust, while one of your more fortunate little playmates has a costly
one, you should treat her with a show of kindness nevertheless. And you ought not to attempt to make a
swap with her unless your conscience would
you in it, and you know you are able to do it.
You ought never to take
's "chewing-gum" away from him by main force; it is better to rope him in with the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on a
. In the artless simplicity natural to this time of life, he will regard it as a perfectly
. In all ages of the world this eminently plausible
has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster.
If at any time you find it necessary to correct your brother, do not correct him with mud--never, on any account, throw mud at him, because it will spoil his
. It is better to
him a little, for then you obtain desirable results. You secure his immediate attention to the lessons you are inculcating, and at the same time your hot water will have a tendency to move
from his person, and possibly the
, in spots.
If
tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of
.
You should ever bear in mind that it is to your kind
that you are indebted for your food, and for the privilege of staying home from school when you let on that you are
. Therefore you ought to respect their little prejudices, and humor their
, and put up with their little foibles until they get to
you too much.
Good little girls always show marked deference for the aged. You ought never to "sass"
unless they "sass" you first.
