LSEWHERE when treating of formal calls, we have said that children should not be taken on such occasions, but at the risk of tautology, such points must reappear under their respective heads. Etiquette has for its main purpose the comfort of soclety, and children have not patience to endure restraints, while they impose restraints

innumerable upon their elders. They are restless in the room over which they cannot wander at pleasure, touching the bric-a-brac, which may be ruined by their little fingers, and teasing guests and hostess in a hundred ways.

For like reasons you will not take your child when you are invited to dine with your friend, unless the child is specially asked, nor even then, unless you are sure that the presence of the child is desired.

Never take your child to church, to a funeral, to the graveyard, nor when you make calls of condolence, unless the child can remain still.

Never allow your own children in the drawing-room when you receive,  nor take them to walk or drive with your

friends, nor to spend the day in adult company if you value their happiness.

Never allow your children to visit your guest's room, unless she has invited them most urgently; nor suffer them to join the picnic that is organized for grown people only. A child between a lady and gentleman in a carriage may mar the day's pleasure, and the younger branches are always de trop in adult parties. There are children's parties, which should be made as pleasant as possible, but the elders of the family should give such invitations.

Keep your child in good form always; in the store he should touch nothing unless you have bought it for his use; in the drawing-room he must respect the property of others; he should be civil and obliging, gentle and kind, able to imitate in the intercourse of every day the refinement that lives in your example. Above all things avoid the appearance of believing that your children are prodigies of genius, and you will cultivate in them a modest self-respect which will make for them friends innumerable, and habits of mind that may be better than fortune.