The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-10
Table Ruquette.

Aheic arc great many people who be.
have well otherwise, but at table they do
things that If not absolutely outre and en-
sen'0ts, are at least p'anissin,o and sine
die.
IT is with view to elevatlng the popu.
| lar taste anu ethesealizing, 80 to speak, the
manners and customs Of our readers, that
we give below few hiuts upon eti.
quctte.
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.
III you cannot accept an invitation to
dinner, DO not write your regrets on the
back of pool check with blue pencil.
'Ihls Is now regarded as ricochet
"A simple note to your host informing
him that your washerwoman refuses to re-
lent Is sufficient
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 1t would ruin the gloves and
cast gloom over the gravy. If you have
just cleaned your gloves with benzino, you
| might loave them out Ill the front yard
| II 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 ep1glot-
| tis and is not considered ena6onD0int,
| anyway.
When you are at dinner do not take up
raw oyster On your fork and playfully
ask your host if it Is dead. Remarks
about death at dinner are IN very poor
| taste.
Pears should be held by tho stem and
n '6llD mt tlty lint
you were sklnning dead horse. 1t is not
bon ton.
Oranges are held on fork while being
pulled, and the facetious style of SQUIRTING
the juice into the eye of your hostess is now
all levoir,
Stones in cherries or other fruit should
not be placed ON the table cloth, but slid
quietly and dunostcntatiously into the pocket
Of your ncighbor or noiselessly tossed un-
der the table.
III you strike worm in your fruit do
not call attention to it by MASKING 1t with
the nut-crakor. This is not only uncouth,
but 1t Is regarded in the best society as
blasc and exceedingly vice versa.
Macarom should be cut into short pieces
and eaten with an even, graceful motion,
not absorbed by the yard.
lii drinking wine, when you got to the
bottom of your glass do not throw your
head back and draw In your breath like tho
exhaust of a bath tub in order to got the
last drop, as 1t engcnders feeling of the
most depressing melancholy among tho
gucstF.
Alter eating considerable amount do
not rise and unbuckle your vest strap In
order to got more room, as it is exceeding
ly az fcit and dishaOiUe.
| II by mistake you drink out of your flu
cr'bowl, laugh heartily and make some
Factions remark which 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
al dinner. Otherwise there might be ditn-
Guilty III 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
shcb be your wife or the wife of some one else,
should cat quite heartily, DO not offer to
pay your host for hi, loss or say to her,
''Grcat 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 week.
If one of the gentlemen should drop a
raw oyster into his bosom and he should
have trouble IN fishing it out, do not make
facetious romarks about it, but assist him
tO find it, laughing heartily all tho time.
Broad Tires for whools.
Moderately broad wheels are prefer
able to narrow tires for use of heavy
wagons. TO run in marrow ruts wagon
with broad tires would not be desirable,
yet i'll our opinion tires three and half
inches III width would prove of easier
draught than those measuring two inches
wide. Of course the load is no heavier
with the use of the wide tire, but is dis
tributed over Il surface of three and Il
half inches in place of two inches. Tho
resistance would be about the same in
both cases, though in the case of the