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Title: Everyday manners for American boys and girls
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Philadelphia. South Philadelphia high school for girls. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Etiquette
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Lose the game gracefully and formally arranged tournament, it is customary to shakehands, as a sign of good feeling and congratulation, bothbefore and after the match. Whether your team winsor loses it should cheer the opponents at the close of thegame. If you win, be a good sport, too. This is often harderthan if you lose. Do not gloat over the defeat of your 78 MANNERS IN GAMES 79 opponent, but put him at ease by your friendliness andgenerous spirit. Some such speech as, This must bemy lucky day, or I certainly enjoyed that game —you gave me a good fight, helps to soften the dis-appointment of defeat. If failure to win a game was due to one person onyour side, do not pitch into him about it. If it was in-tentional, never play with him K- r i ii He may have been unintentional, and he f j7 fe feels badly, say to him, Cheer up — it was a good game — lots of fun — Ill be glad to
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dont boast when you win. try it again. After all, a game is a game. Do notspoil it by making it a battle royal. If you attend a game in a group, keep your merrimentwithin your group. It is quite possible to have athoroughly good time, without having your neighborson the car, or elsewhere, think what noisy, ill-bred boysand girls you are. 80 EVERYDAY MANNERS problems: who will solve them? 1. What books, stories, or poems have you read that show instancesof courtesy in sport? 2. Describe instances that you yourself have witnessed. 3. Add other slogans to this one: He who laughs at others1 woesFinds few friends and many foes PART THREE IN PUBLIC PLACES 1 CHAPTER XX In Trolley Cars and on the Street I am a part of all that I have met. Tennyson has put these wordsj into the mouth ofUlysses, and if you think a little, you will realize thepeculiar responsibility which rests upon each one of us.Consciously or unconsciously, we imitate mannerismsof speech and dress, of behavior and thought. We

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