ScORES of times in a day a child is told in a short, authoritative way, to do or not to do such little things as we ask at the hands of older people as favors, graciously and with deference to their choice. "Would you be so kind as to close that window?" "May I trouble you for that cricket?" "If you may be as comfortable in this chair as in that, I would like to change places with you." "Oh, excuse me, but your head is between me and the light?" "Could you see as well if you moved a little?" "Would it hinder you too long if you stopped at the store for me? I would be very much obliged if you would." "Pray do not let me crowd you," etc. In most people's speech, we find as synonyms for these polite phrases: "Shut that window down, this minute." "Bring me that cricket." "I want that chair—get up; you can sit in this." "Don't you see that you are right in my light? Move along." "I want you to leave off playing and go right down to the store for me." "Don't crowd so; can't you see that there is not enough room for two people here?" and so on. On the other hand, let a child ask for anything without saying "please," receive anything without saying "thank you," sit still in the most comfortable seat without offering to give it up, or press its own preference for a particular book, chair, or apple, to the inconvenience of an elder, and what an outcry we have. "Such rudeness!" "Such an ill-mannered child!" "His parents must have neglected him strangely." Not at all; they have been telling him a great many times every day not to do these precise things which you dislike. But they themselves have been all the while doing these very things to him.