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THE IMPERATIVE MOOD

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 11, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 11

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THE IMPERATIVE MOOD.

Mrs. L. H. Tuthill, a lady who wrote several charming books for young women, once said, in speaking of good manners, that “human nature resented the imperative mood.”
Think of this, girls. If you ask a child to wait on you, say, “Please.” Be polite to servants and inferiors. Be courteous even to the cat. Why push her roughly aside, or invite her claws?
If kindness, good-nature, and gentleness ruled in every house, what sunlight would home enjoy! A great deal depends upon the girls,—the sisters, the daughters.—Christian at Work.