Lessons on Manners for School and Home Use

Lessons on Manners for School and Home Use is a book by Edith E. Wiggin. The contents list names lessons such as Manners in General, Manners at School, Manners at the Table, Manners in Society and Manners at Church, among others. The title page carries the line A beautiful behavior is the finest of the fine arts, credited to Emerson.

The text says the teacher should, when it seems wise, commend acts of politeness in her scholars, and that if they know she sees and appreciates their efforts, they will redouble them. The text says it has been said, Manners are something with every one, and everything with some, and that strangers will judge us entirely by our manners. Margaret Fuller says to a listener, I hope that never again in your life will you be the cause of so much annoyance and pain to any one as you have been to me this evening. The text says that to take out one's watch or to turn the head to look at the clock is like saying we are impatient to go, and must be disturbing to the speaker.