Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-09-15

Table Rtiquette.
There are great many people who be.
have well otherwise, but at table they do
things that II not absolutely otItre and en-
seD1bLS, are at least 10sGNissialO and sine
die.
IL is with view to elevatlng the popu-
lar taste and ethe-ealizing, NO to speak, the
manners and customs of our readers, that
we give below q few hints upon eti-
quette.
Ii 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 invitation to
dinner, do not write your regrets on the
back of pool check with blue pencil.
THIS is now regarded as ricOchet
A simple note TO your host informing
him that your washerwoman refuses to re-
| lent lis sufficient.
On seating yourself at the table draw of
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 gloom over the gravy. II you have
just cleaned your gloves with benzine, you
might leave them out In the front yard.
III 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 eplglot-
tis, and is not considered enl6OnpOi1lt,
anyway.
When you are at dinner do not take up
a raw oyster On your fork and playfully
ask your host il it is dead. Remarks
about death at dinner are in very poor
taste.
Pears should be held by the stem and
peeled gently but firmly, not as though
bon ton.
Oranges are held on q fork while being
pulled, and the facetious style of squirting
the juice into the eye of your hostess Ia now
au Ievoir,
Stones in cherries or other fruit should
not be placed on the table cloth, but slid
quietly and unostentatiously into the pocket
of your neighbor or noiselessly tossed un-
der the table.
If you strike worm in your fruit do
not call attention to it by MASKING 1t with
the nut-craker. This is not only uncouth,
but 1t is regarded in the best society as
blase and exceedingly vice versa.
Macaronl should be cut into short pieces
and eaten with an even, graceful motion,
not absorbed by the yard.
Ii 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 bath tub i'm order to get the
1acf q ~ hn
most depressing melancholy among the
guests.
After eating q considerable amount do
not rise and Unbuckle your vest strap in
order 70 get more room, as it is exceeding
ly Gu fat and dishGbiJle.
III by mistake you drink out OF your an-
ger. bowl, laugh heartily and make some
TaCStfUuS -FCHEns-1~--zhAah will change the
course of conversation and renew the
friendly feeling among the members of the
party,
Ladies should take but one glass of wine
at dinner. Otherwise there might be diff
Guilty In steering the male portion of the
procession home.
Do not make remarks about the amount
your companion has eaten. If the lady
who is your companion at table. whether
she be your wife or the wife of some one else,
should eat quite heartily, do not offer to
pay your host for his loss or say to her,
Great Scott! / hope you will not kill
yourself because you have the opportunity"
but be polite and gentlemanly. even though
the food supply be cut of for a week.
If one of the gentlemen should drop a
raw oyster into his bosom aud he 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.