The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-09-15
TABLE ETIQUETTE. {
Bill Nye's Delicate Hints Upon
Is sB Table Manners So

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There are a great many. people
who behave well otherwise, Abut "a
our table they do things that i
not absolutely outre and ensembles
are at least pianissimo and SINE
die, -
II is with CIV to elevate the
popular taste and etherealize, so u
! speak, the manners and customs oil
our readers, that we give below q
few hints upon table etiquet.
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
Ii you cannot accept an invita-
ton to dinner doinot write your re-
grets on The back Of a pool check
with q biue. pencil. This is not re
garded as ricochet. 8aL
. A simple note, to your host, in
forming INN that yosf washer
woman refuses TO reient,' is suffi-
GENT.
On seating yourself at the table,
draw off your gloves and put them
IN you lap under your napkin. Do
not put them into the gravy, as it
would ruin the gloves and cast
gloom over The gravy. Ifyeu have
just cleaned your gloves with beH-
zine, you viii leave them out in the
front yard.
Ii you happen TO drop gravy on
your knife blade back near the han
ole, DO not run the blade down !, our
throat to remove the gravy. as it
might injure your epiglottis, and 1t
is not ebonpoInt, any way.
w hen you are at dinner do not
Jake up raw. oy ster on your fork !
and playfully ask your host if it is
lead. Remarks about death are IN |
very poor taste.
Pears should be held by the
stems and peeled gently, but firmly,
lot as though you were skinning a
lead horse. 1t is not bon ton.
Oranges are he'd on fork while
,eIng peeled, and the tscetious
lyle OF squirting the juice into
he eyes OF Tue hostess is now au
evoir.
Stones in cherries or other fruit
hould not De placed upon the Ia
lie cloth, but slid quietly and unOs
entaneously into the pocket of
our neighbor or noisely tossed un
er the table.
II you strike a worm in your
-uit do not call attention to it by
Iashing it with the nut cracker.
his is not only uncouth, bat it is
sgarded in the best society as
ase and exceedingly vice versa.
Macaroui should be cut into
lort pieces and should be eaten Z
it'll an even and graceful motion,
ld absorbe5 BY the yard. "a -. sd
III drin.tn5 vine, when you get
Inc b"ttom Ut your glass do not
ROW your mead back and draw in
our breath like the exhaust OF a
lth tub, in order to get the last.
rop, as it engenders a feeling of
ie most depressing melancholy
nong the guests. 4HFa-.
After eating a cons iderable
Mount, do not raise and unbuckle
)ur vest strap in order to get more
'om, as ltis not exactly au fat
nj deshabille. -re
If, by mistake, YOU. drink out of
our finger BOWL laugh heartily, !
Id MAX e osome. facetlous remark
lichs will change The course of
nversation and renew the friend
feeling among the members OF
e party. sfaH s /,
Ladies should take but one glass
wine at dinner; otherwise there 4
ight be difficulty in steering the
ale portion of the procession
me
Ii one of the gentlemen should
OPP a raw oyster into his bosom,
d he should have trouble in fish
2 it out, make no f0cetious re-
trks about 1t, bat assist him to
d it, laughing heartily all the
ne. o. 5000