The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-10-13
No. IL.
TABLE ETIQUETTE.

people who behave we'll other.
wise, but at the table they do
things that, if not absolutely
outre and mble are at least
pianiSsimo and sine die.
1t is with view to elevatin =
the popular taste, and etherealiz
ing, SO to speak, the manners and
customs of our readers, that we
give below few hints on tablr
etiquette:
If by writing an article of this
kind we can induce one man who
now wipes his hands On the table
cloth to come up and take higher
ground and wipe them on his
pants. we shall feel amply repaid.
If you cannot accept al invita-.
ton to dinner do not write your
regards on the book Of poo!
check with blue pencil. This j.
not regarded as ricocbet.
A simple note to your host in
forming him that your washer
woman refuses to relent is sum
cient.
On seating yourself at the table
draw off your gloves and put them
in your lap under your napkin. Do
not put them in the gravy, as it
would ruin the gloves and cast a
gloom over the gravy. If yon
have just cleaned your gloves with
benzine you leave them out in the
front yard.
you happen to drop gravy on
your knife blade, back near the
handle, do not run the blade down
your throat to remove the gravy,
as it might injure your epiglotis,
and 1t is not considered embon.
point any way.
When You are at dinner do not
take up a raw oyster or your fork
and playfulIy ask your host if it is
dead. Remarks about death al
dinner are in very poor taste.
Pears should be held by the
stems and peeled gently but firm
ly, not as though you were skin
ming a dead horse. 1t is not bon
ton.
Oranges are held on a fork
while being peeled, and the face
tious style Of squirting the juice
into the eye Of your hostess is
now gu revoir.
Stones in cherries or other
fruit should not be placed upon
the tablecloth, out slid quietly
and unostentatlous!y into the
pocket of your neighbor or noise.
lessly tossed under the table.
If you strike worm in your
fruit do not call attention to it by
masbing it with the mt cracker.
This is not only uncount, but it is
regarded in tie best society as
blase and exceedingly vice versa
Macaroni should be cut into
short pieces and eaten with an
even graceful motion, not absorbed
by the yard.
In drinking wine, when you get
to the bottom Of your glass do not
throw your head back and draw
in your breath like the exhaust of
q bath tub in order to get the last
drop, as it engenders a feeling of
the NEST depressing melancholy
among the guests.
After eating a considerable
amount do not rise and unbuckIe
your vest strap in order to get
more room, as it is exceedingly
au fait and deshabille.
If by mistake you drink out Of
your finger bowl, laugh heartily
and make some facetious remark
which will change the course of
conversation and renew the friend
iy feeling among the members of
the party.
Ladies should take but one
glass Of wine at dinner. Other.
wise there might be difficulty in
steering the male portion Of the
procession bone.
If one Of the gentlemen should
drop raw oyster into bis bosom
and should have trouble in fishing
it out; do not make facetious re-
marks about it, but assist him tc
find it, laughing heartily all the
time.-Laramle Raomsrang,
DRAMATIC NoTE,-When he re-
turned 10 hil Scat in tho theatre