[Chapter III.]
LESSONS ON MANNERS.
SECOND TWO YEARS.
LESSON IV.
Purpose.—To suggest kindness and unselfishness as two underlying principles of good manners.
Method.—A familiar conversation.
The Lesson.
Suppose a boy seated in the easiest chair in the room, reading and enjoying himself, should rise on seeing his mother enter, and offer her the chair. What would you say of that boy?
“That he was kind.”
Then what kind of a heart would you suppose he had?
“A kind heart.”
And of whom did this kind heart lead him to think?