The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-31
TABLE MANNERS OF CHILL
DREN.

Young children who have to wait
till older people have eaten all there
is in the house, should not open the
dining room door during the meal
and ask the host if he is going to eat
all day. 1t makes the company feel
ill at ease and lays up wrath in the
parents heart.
Children should not appear dis
pleased with the regular courses at
dinner and then fill up on pie. Eat
the less expensive food first and then
organize a panic in the preserves
afterwards.
Do not close out the last of your
soup by taking the plate in your
mouth and pouring the liquor down
your childish neck. You Might spill
it On your bosom, and it enlarges
and distorts the mouth unnecessar-
lily.
When asked what part of the
fowl you prefer, do notsay you will
take the part that goes over the
fence last. This remark is very hui
morous, but the rising generation
ought to originate some new table
jokes that will be worthy of the age
in which we live.
Children should early learn the
use of the fork and how to handle
1t. This knowledge can be acquired
by allowing them to pry up the car
pet tacks with this instrument. and
other little exercises such as the
parent mind may suggest.
The child should be taught at once
not to waive his bread around over
the table while in conversation, or
to fill his mouth full of potatoes
and then converse in rich tone of
voice with someone out in the yard.
He might get his dinner down his
trochea and cause his parents great
anxiety.
In picking up plate or saucer
filed with soup, or with moist food,
the child should be Taught not to
parboil his thumb in the contents
Of the dish and to a9oid soup bones
or other indigestible debris.
Toothpicks are generally the last
course and children should not be
permitted to pick their teeth and
kick the table through the other eX-
e-clse. While grace is being said
at the table, children should know
that it is a breach OF good breeding
\ to smOuge fruit cake just because
/ their parents heads are bowed
Down and their attention for the
moment turned in another direction.
I Children ought not to be permitted
to find fault with the dinner or fool
with the eat while eating. Boys
should before going to the table
empty all the frogs cad graSshop-
pers out Of their pOcketS or thOee
insects might crawl out during the
festivities and jump into the gravy.
If a fly Wades into your jelly up
to his gambrells, do not mash him
with your spoon before all the
guests, as death is at all times de,
pressing to those who are at dinner
and retards digestion. Take the fly
out carefully with what naturally
adheres to his person and wipe him
on the table cloth. It will demon
strate your perfect command O
yourself and afford much amuse
ment for the company, Do no
stand up in your chair and try t
spear roll with your fork. 1t il
not good manners to do sc and yol
might slip and bust your crust by
so doing. Say F'thank YOU an(
much obliged' and "beg pardon
wherever you can work in these re
marks, as it throws people off thei
guard and gives you an opportunit,
to get in your work on the pastr!
and other bric-a-brac near you a
the time.-Laramie Boomerang.