The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-09-22
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There are a great many people who
/ behave well otherwise, but at table they
do things that, if not absolutely 0utre
/ and ensemble, are at least piGnjSsiBlO
/ and sine die.
It is with view to elevating the pop
/ ular taste and ethorializing, 50 to
| sneak, the manners and customs of our
readers, that we give below q few hints
upon table etiquette.
II by writing an article Of this kind
we can induce one man who now wipes
/ lis 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 IN invitation
10 dinner do not write your regrets
on the back Of q pool check with
/ blue pencil. This is now regarded as
TicOcbet
A simple note to your host informing
him that v0Ur WGshCrWCman refuses TO
rcIcnt is sufficient
On seating yourself ct the table draw
OF your gloves and put them in your
lap under your napkin. Do not put
them in the gravy, rs it would ruin the
gloves and cast q gloom over the gravy.
If You have just cleaned your gloves
with benzine, you might leave them
out in the front yard.
If 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, rs it might iniure
your epiglottis, and it is not considered
em5oHpOjHt, anyway.
When you are at dinner do not take
I'D q raw oyster on your fork and play
fully ask your host if it is dead. Re
marks about death at dinner are in very
poor taste.
Pears should be held by the stems
and peeled gently and firmly, not as
though you were skinning dead horse.
It is not bon ton.
Oranges are held on a fork while be-
ing pulled, and the facetious style Of
squirting the juice into the eye Of your
hostess is now az TeUO5T.
Stones in cherries or other fruit
should not be placed upon the table
cloth, but slid quietly and unOstenta-
tiOUsly into the pocket Of your neigh
Dor or nOiselessly tossed under the ta-
bic.
If you strike O worm in your fruit do
not call attention to it by MASKING it
with a nut-cracker. This is not only
uncouth, but it is regarded in the best
society as 6lGSe and exceeding gics
UeTsa.
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 a bath tub
in order to get the last drop, as it en-
gendeTs a feeling Of the most depress-
ing melancholy among the guests.
After eating q considerable amount
do not rise and unbUckle your vest
strap in order to get more room, as
it is exceedingly az fnit and diSbn6ille.
If bv mistake you drink out Of your
iinEor-bOwl, laugh heartily and make
some facetiOUs remark which will
change the course of conversation and
renew the friendly feeling among the
members Of the party.
Ladies SHOULD take but ODa glass Of
vine Mt dinner. Otherwise there might
be difficulty in steering the male por-
ton Of the procession home.
Do not make remarks about the
amount your companion has eaten. If
the lady who IS your company ct table,
whether she b. your wife or the wife f
some one else, should eat quite heart
iiv. do not offer 10 pay your host for
his l,ss or say to her, Great ScoJti
I hope YOU viii not kill yourself be-
cause you have the opportunity"
but be polite and gentIemanly, even
though the food supply be cut of for a
week.
If one Of the gentlemen should drop
s raw oyster in his bosom and ne
should have trouble in fishing it out,
do not make facetiOus remarks about
It. but assist him to find it, laughing
heartily all the time. boomerang.