Excerpt from Training in Courtesy: Suggestions for Teaching Good Manners in Elementary Schools We are pleasanter companions when we are clean than when We' are dirty. We may be offensive if we are dirty. Boys and girls who: are not clean may be most unwelcome in a group of their classmates or playmates; yet no one of the group would wish to say to them, You are not clean, I do not like to play with you, because that might hurt the feelings of the uncleanly children. It is not necessary to be so unwelcome. 'we can be clean if We know how to be clean and if we take pride in being clean. There are certain facts about the care of the body that all boys and girls should know and certain acts of cleanliness that ought to be practiced so often and so regularly that they become habits of life. The older children of a family ought to help the younger and weaker ones until they are old enough and strong enough to care for themselves properly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.