The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-28
TABLE ETIQUETTE.
Bill Nye's Delicate Hints Upon Ia
Bile Manners,

! Iher6 are great many peOpio VIM
behave well, but at table they 0C
things that if DOT absolutely outre and
ensemble, are at les.t pisnissimo and
s,ne die.
1t is with visw to elevate the pop
ular taste and etherealize. 30 to speak.
the manners aud customs OF our
readers, that We give below few
| hints on table etiquette.
II, by wHting an article OF THIS
kind, We Can induce one rDAn who
wipes bis hands Oh the tabie-c.olh to
CONE up and take higher ground and
wipe Them on bis pants. we shall feel
amply repaid.
II you can not accept an invitation
to dinper. do not write your regrets
on the back OF pool-oheck with 3
blue pencil. This is not regarded AS
ricochet.
A simple note to your host, in
forming him that your EssherWomsn
fuses 10 relent, is sufficient.
On seating yourself at the table
draw off your gloves ard put them IN
your lap under your napkin. Do not
put them in the gravy. 40 1t would
ruin the G owes snd cast q gloom over
the gravy. II you have Iot cleaned
your gloves with benzine, you will
leave them cat in the tio1, yard.
II you happen to drop gravy on
your knife.b blade back, near the ham
die do not run the blade down your
throat 70 remove the gravy, as It
might injure your epiglotts. aud II Is
not embonpo:nt. anyway.
When you are at dluner DO not
take up raw oyster on your fork snd
plsyfully ask your hoet if it be deed
Remarks about death are IN very
poor tsate.
Pears should be held by the s.ems
and peeled gently. 6at firmly, lot rs
though you we're skinning dead
horse. Il IL not bon ton.
Oranges are held on tork while
being peeled, and the tacetic1s
style OF squirting The juice into the
hostess, eyes is now 40 Ievolr.
Stones in cherries and other fruit
should not be placed on the table
cloth but slid quietly and unostenta-
tiously into the pocket OF your neigh
Dor or noselessly tossed under the
table.
II you strike worm in your fruit
do not call attention TO it by msshing
it with the nut cracker. This is not
only uncoutb, but it is regarded 10
the best society Is hlase and exceed
ingIy vice versa. MAcaroni should be
cut into short pieces and should be
eaten with an even, graceful motion,
and absorbed by the yard.
In drinking wine. when you get to
the bottom OF the glass do not throw
your head back and draw in your
breath like the exhaust OF bath-tub
in order to get the Last drop, as it en-
gender feeling OF the most depres-
cling melancholy among the guests.
After eating a Consid erable amount.
do not rise land unbucSIe your vest
strap In order to get more room. as 1T
Is not exactly an TAFT and deshabiile.
II, by mistake, you drink out OF
your fnger-bowl. laugh heartily, and
make some fscetious remark which
will change the course OF converss-
ton and renew the friendly feeling
among the members OF the party.
Ladies should take but one el-ss of
wine at dinnsr; Otherwise there might
be q difficulty in steering the male
portion of the procession home.
Do not make remarks about the
amount your companion has eaten.
II the lady who is your companion at
table, whether ahs be your wife OF the
wife of some one ese, should eat
quite heartily. do not offer to pay
your host for his loss, or cay TO her,
"Great Scott! l hope you will not
kill yourself because you have toe
opportunity" but be polite and gen.
tlemaa'y, even though the food sup
ply be cut off for week.
II one of the gentlemen should
drop a raw oyster into his bosom, and
he should have trouble in fishing it
out, co not make Factions remarks
about it, bu. assist him to find 1t.
laochinp heartily all the time.