The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-02
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Artists with Knives and Torks-Rulcs
Governing the Conduct OF Refnsa Dun.
uers-outEwhat to eat and How to Eat
.t-vulaSrities to be Avoided.

it-vulagrities TO De Avohoe"'
The best thing about a plate OF good
soup is to know how to drink it. AS
this first course is only intended to pre-
pare the stomach for the dinner that Is
to follow, it is never permissible to call
for II a second time, nor is it necessary
20 CONSUME more than a third Of the
amount served to you. To break bread
in your soup is an insult to your hos
tess. who would have spared you that
trouble had ske not preferred a thin
soup. No nstion under the sun
uses oyster crackers in a soup but
Americans of the most shoddy class.
In taking the soup do not fill the spoon
more than half full, and Gip up the IL
quid by passing r. spoon from You;
The M in which the spoon SHAH
reach the mouth is an open question,
ladies insisting that the proper thing Is
to drink from the side OF the bowl,
while gentlemen maintain that the cor
rect way is from the tip of the spoon.
This certainly appears plausible to
many, who hold that if a blunt side was
preferable, modern spoons wouldnot be
made pointed. Every man with a heavy
mustache knows from experience thath
is much easier and much neater for him
to take soup from the end of the spoon
than it is from the side.
In this course bread is served. Lay
the cut on the table at the left OF the
plate and break off small pieces, with
out lifting it from the cloth, using the
fingers of the left hand, Right here 1t
might be pertinent TO mention that no
bread of any description should be eaten
in any other fashion. Even hot bis
cults, mullins, buns, and rolls are to be
torn or broken off in small pieces, and
buttered just before being eaten. Fish
should be eaten with a silver fork pro-
vided for that purpose. In managing
the fillets ard roasts there Is no regu-
lation further than to carry small pieces
to your mouth with your fork, using the
inward curve of the utensil in doing so,
and above all things avoid making q
muSs.
In France there are so many dressings
and rich gravies on the substantials that
monsieur finds it necessary to cut his
bread with his knife and fork, and then
uses the fork anG cube of bread to eat
up the rich sauce. This practice is
frowned down in English society, al
though her majesty, the queen,
is known to mop her plate
with diamond cuts of bread.
Albeit Americans do not like it, it is
the proper thing to leave the celery for
the crackers and cheese. Break the
celery in small pieces and strip it be-
fore eating. In eating cheese, small
morsels of the dairy product should be
placed on small morsels of cracker OF
bread and the two morsels carried to
the mouth with the thumb and forefin-
ger. The cheese should not be per-
mitted to touch tie finger; neither is 1t
permissible to eat the cheese from tA1
point of the knife.
All made-dishos, such as quenelles,
r~issoles, patties, etc, should be eaten
with a fork only, and, as a knife is un-
necessary, it would be a vulgarism to
use one. " It'll outlets, game, poultry,
and s~weetbreads fried, a knife is requir-
ed. Cucumbers are eaten from the
dinner-plate, and not from the side
dishes, which are fast disappearing
from the fashionable table. When peas
are served they should be conveyed to
the mouth on a fork, and not taken
from a spoon. IL is needless to say
that to put the knife into the mouth a
n time during the meal would be al
objectionable offense against goo(
breeding and a mark of ~vulgarity. Il
eating asparagus knife and fork shoulC
be used, as the proper way is to cut OF
the points and eat them as sea-kale
| eggplant Or any pther vegetable. Iii
q solecism TO take asparagus IN the fin
gers.
tits also Indicative OF the gormand t
| overload the fork with a bit of meat
some vegetable, and piece of pickle
| oil of which should be eaten separated
and not arranged beforehand in a com
pact form. Gentlemen are sometime
guilty Of this unpleasant manner, bu
ladies are less r~apacious. The han'
and mouth should be in sympathy
that is 70 say, the mouth should b
kept opesi ID expectation of the we'll
laden forks arrival Open the moutl
to receive the food at the moment it ha
reached the lips. and let the morsels D
small rather than large, III order tina
conversation may not be ignored. ~
place the fork directly opposite th
mouths a most ~ungracefal WY of eat
ing nor silout5 the wrist ever be ben
or curved to accomplish this feat. !
eating from the wing or leg Of poultr,
cut the meat, but never tousA if wit
the fingers, nor be guilty ofthe extrem
vulgarity Of picking the bones.
Pastry Is always eaten with a fork
but in ease of a fruit tart or cream pui
q dessert-spoon is used. Small stones
such as are found IN cheefy plum, dam
son, or date pudding should be receive