Foundation Stones of Success - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...the real nature. The only way to be a gentleman or gentlewoman is to be gentle. When you are in the presence of your elders, keep quiet and listen, speaking only when addressed. Do not tease or distract the attention of your parents. Do not play or act boisterously wherever others would be annoyed. Do not whisper, laugh, cough, shuffie feet in libraries, churches, places of entertainment where silence and quiet are desired. Do not act anywhere so as to be conspicuous. To act so as to attract attention is the lowest form of ill-breeding. The attention attracted is always pitying and contemptuous. Maxims, Stories No one can disgrace us but ourselves.--Holland. The world has a right to look to me for my own rating. Good breeding remembers the rights of others; low breeding insists upon one's own rights.--Carlyle. f-l NAPOLEON AT WATERLQO SeePage179 Life is a ladder on which we are going up or down. People judge the direction by the manners. THE nonxav AND THE LIoN's sxm A Donkey once found a Lion's skin which the hunter had left in the sun to dry. He put it on and went on toward his native village. All fled at his approach, both men and animals and he was a proud Donkey that day. In his delight he lifted up his voice and brayed, but then everyone knew him and his owner came up and beat him soundly for the fright he had caused. And shortly after a Fox came up and said, "I knew you by your voice." Fine clothes may disguise but silly words and actions will disclose a fool.--/Esop. A MODERN IN STANCE Not far from our cottage was the summer camp of a large and fashionable boy's school. Two or three boys came over one day and began firing a rifle near my host's premises. They seemed trying to shoot as...