Never crowd children into pic-nic parties, if they have not been invited. They generally grow weary and very troublesome before the day is over. Never take a child to spend the day with a friend unless it has been included in the invitation. Never allow children to be in the drawing room if strangers are present. Never allow children to handle the ornaments in the drawing room of a friend. Never allow a child to pull a visitor's dress, play with the jewelry or ornaments she may wear, take her parasol or satchel for a plaything, or in any way annoy her. Train children early to answer politely when addressed, to avoid restless, noisy motions when in company, and gradually inculcate a love of the gentle courtesies of life. By making the rules of etiquette habitual to them, you remove all awkwardness and restraint from their manners when they are old enough to go into society. Never send a child to sit upon a sofa with grown people, unless they express a desire to have it do so. Never crowd a child into a carriage seat between two grown people. Never allow a child to play with a visitor's hat or cane. If children are talented, be careful you do not weary your friends, and destroy their own modesty by "showing them off," upon improper occasions. What may seem wonderful to an interested mother, may be an unutterable weariness to a guest, too polite to allow the mother to perceive the incipient yawn. Never allow children to visit upon the invitation of other children. When they are invited by the older members of the family, it is time to put on their "best bibs and tuckers." Never take children to a house of mourning, even if you are an intimate friend. The custom for having children in the drawing-room for morning or evening parties, or in the dining-room with the dessert at dinner companies, is not only often an annoyance to the guests, but bad for the children themselves. It is one of the first duties of parents to train their children at home as they would have them appear abroad. An English lady writes thus: