DOMESTIC MANNERS.
Good Manners the Expression of Benevolence in personal
Intercourse—Serious Defects in Manners of the Americans—Causes
of peculiar Manners to be found in American Life—Want of clear
Discrimination—Necessity for Distinctions of Superiority and
Subordination—Importance that young Mothers should seriously endeavor
to remedy this Defect while educating their Children—Democratic
Principle of Equal Rights to be applied, not to our own Interests,
but to those of others—The same Courtesy to be extended to all
Classes—Necessary Distinctions arising from mutual Relations to be
observed—The Strong to defer to the Weak—Precedence yielded by Men to
Women in America—Good Manners must be cultivated in early Life—Mutual
Relations of Husband and Wife—Parents and Children—The Rearing of
Children to Courtesy—De Tocqueville on American Manners 260