, 1880-09-20
Suggestions on Etiquette.

same in substance to so many inquiring
friends:
"Sweet Sixteen writes from t" Hold
up Hollow
8 am betrothed to noble youth
from Rice bake, Minnesota, but he
seems to have soured on his betroth.
AT first he seemed to love me ac-
cording to Gunter, but he has grown
cold. About the first of the roundup
ne went away, and | soon afterwards
heard that he was affianced to another.
% understand that he says that am
not of noble lineage enough for him.
It is true, I may not be thoroughbred,
but l have pure, loving nature, which
IS now running to waste. The name of
my betrothed is DeCourtney Van
D'Edbeete. He comes from the first
families, and o, l love him so!
"Can you tell me what to do?
Sweet Sixteen!"
Answer-Yes, [ can tell you what to
do. have been there some, too. Ii
you will only do as tell you, you are
safe.
You must win him back. 1 think
you can easily do SO.
Select baseball club of about the
weight you can handle easily, and then
go to him and win him back.
You are too proud to give up easily.
Do not be discouraged. ALI will yet be
we'll.
He may think now that you are not
of noble blood, but yeu can make him
change his mind. Go to hina with the
Iove-light in your eye and put triangu-
lar head on him with your base ball
club and tell him that he does not un-
derstand the cravings of your nature.
Drive him into the ground and sit down
on him and then tell him that You are
nothing but q poor, friendless girl and
need some one to cling to. Then you
can cling to him. All depends upon
how successful you are as a Ginger.
l see at a glance that De Courtney
needs to be hattened out few times.
Do not kill him, but bring him SO near
the New Jerusalem that be can see the
dome Of the courthouse, and he will
gradually come back to you and love
you, and your life will be one long
golden dream of neyer-fading Joy, and
De Courtney will wiring out the colored
clothes for you and help you do the
washing, and he will stay at home even
ings and take care of the children while
you go to prayer-meeting, and he will
not murmur when you work of an in
expensive meal of cold rice and fricas-
seed Goldfish on ham.
Ii he gets to feeling Independent and
puts on the old air OF defiance YOU can
diet him on cold mush and mackerel
till he Will not feel so robust, and then
you can reason with him again, and
while he is recovering you can take
your baseball club and your noble self
sacrificing love and win him back some
more.
Lalla Rookh " writes from Wauke-
gan, Illinois, as follows, to-wit:
Ny classmates and [ have had quite
serious discussions recently on several
questions of table etiquette and we
hare finally agreed to leave the matter
with you.
"First-If one IS asked to cay grace
at the table and does not wish 10 do go,
Or is not familiar with the forms, what
should he do?
Second-If one has anything in his
mouth, or gets any foreign substance
like piece Of bone or a seed in his
mouth. how should he remove it, and
what is the proper thing to do with it ?
"Third-Would you kindly add al
few general rules of table etie euette,
which would be useful to the many ad-
mirers Of your classic style ?"
Answer-It would be hazardous for
q gentleman unaccustomed to asking
grace at the table to attempt it unless
he be naturally fluent, extemporane-
GUS speaker.
Iti more difficult for one unacquaint-
ed with it than to address a Sabbath
school or write letter accepting the
nominatian for President.
1t is, therefore, preferable to say in
a few terse remarks that you are pro-
foundly grateful for the high compli-
ment, but that your health will not ad
nit of its acceptance.
Second-Care should be used wkile
at the table not to get large foreign
substances like hairpins. soup-bones or
clothes-pins into the mouth with food,
as it naturally requires some little sang
froid and tact to remove them. One ac-
customed to the mysteries of parlor
magic may slide the article into his
sleeve while coughing, and thence into
the coat pocket OF his host, thus easily
getting himself ont of an unpleasant
situation, and at the same time produc-
ing roars of laughter at the expense of
the host.
If, however, you are not familiar with
sleight Of hand, you may take in full
breath and expel the object across the
room under the whatnot, where it will
not be discovered until you have gone
away.
will add few general rules for ia
bic etiquette, which have learned by
actual experience to be Of untold bene-
fit to the active society man.
First--It is proper to take the last OF
ANYTHING on the plate Il it comes to