Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-10-19
Table Manners Of Children.


4 Young children who have to wait
till older people have eaten all there
is in The house should not opeis the
dining-room door during the meal
and as 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 panic in the preserves.
Do not close out the last of your
soup by taking the plate in your
mouth and pouring the liquid down
your childish throat. You might
spill it, and it enlarges, and distorts
the mouth unnecessarily. 'At
When asked what part of the fowl
you prefer do not say you will take
the part that goes over the fence last.
This remark is very humorous, but
the rising generation ought to origi-
nate 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 it.
This knowledge can be acquired by
allowing them to pry up the carpet
tacks with this instrument, and other
little exercises such as the parent
mind may suggest.
The child should be taught at once
not to wave his bread around over
the table while in conversation, or to
fill his mouth full of potatoes and
then converse in a rich tone of voice
with some one out in the yard. He
might get his dinner down his trachea
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 par
boil his thumb in the contents of the
dish and to avoid swallowing soup
bones of 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 exercises.
While grace is being said at the Ia
Bile, children should know that it is a
breach of good breeding to smouge
fruit cake just because their parents
heads arc bowed down and their at
tention for the moment turned in
another direction. Children ought
not to be permitted to find fault with
the dinner or fool with the cat while
eating. Boys should, before going
to the table, empty all the frogs and
out of their pockets, or
those insects might crawl out during
the festivities and jump into the gra-
Wy.
If fly wades into your jelly up to
his gambrels do not mash him with
your spoon before all the guests, as
death is at all times depressing to
those at dinner land regards digcs-
ton. Take the fly out carefully with
what naturally adheres to his person
and wipe him on the table-cloth. 1t
will demonstrate your perfect COM
mand of yourself and afford amuse-
ment for the company. Do not stand
up in your chair and try to spear a
roll with your fork. Say "thank
you' and "much obliged and "beg
pardon" wherever you can work in
these remarks, as it throws people off
their guard and gives you an oppor-
tunity to get in your work on the
pastry and other bric-a-brac near you
at the time.
DIR. Chase's Recipe Book should be
in every household in the county, rs
it is replete with practical information
on every subject which may arise in
the house, on the farm, i'm the work.
shop. See the advertisement in an
other column of our paper. We pre-