Telegram-herald., 1888-08-05
SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.
VINO rs Served First at Modern Dinners.
How Guests Are seated ut the Table.

Who rs Served First at Modern Dinners.
How Guests Are seated at the Table.
II Is perhaps not too much 10 say that
diuDer party thoroughly good In menu, cook
cry. service. rStbetIc appliances Of sheen
and color, culinary chemistry, and last,
though by 10 means least. IA the guests with
educated pal2tes. affords altogether the
strongest every day evidence OF high civil
fzati0n. BruteS feed Tho best barbarian
only ats Only the cultured man car dine
Dinner IS 10 longer q meal, but an institu-
ton. A large part OF the import ant work Of
the csvihzed world is ccorsplislssd OF reg
rfatel =, ~ocial dinners IN wasbin~-ou.
not cnly dplonstic, hrs many legislative
ard official transaoSious- are arranged at
dinners.
The position OF the participants OF any
forrnal repast has been attended bv intrica.s
puncsihos. The most modern and most ju-
dicious arTsncerncnt Of the guests Mt din
ner party dlsregaris their social or official
Importance and seats them with references TO
their personal pecrlisTities, tastes and mu-
tusl adaptation. Nevertheless, here stin re-
mains \ raiic y former ceremouials in the
apparent necessity of the host and hostess 70
take iz.o dinner and place at their respective
right hanss the most distinguished two OF
opposies ssy among their gussaS But. apart
from this distinction, the diagram u Ssats j.
srran-ei % proulote agreeable conversation.
The QUESTION rs % who = ~ ~ served first
Is ore about which much has been written hy
professors q efiGtistte Is seems nov 20 bs
decisied that on occasions where the enter
- nrorns IA given for The Sperisl hoaor of a
particular guest. or where any one cf The
gassts towers aaovs ths others IN point *
dignity. such guests shouil be srst served
ft u Ibid down in some books of etiIlette
that seon the ooccirSi0u Of each course. in
order shst the servant may - aware that ths
time has arrived for a change. the guest sbal
lsy his snifs and FORK parallel % each other
urcn his plses. out fs Is also Observed that it
il extremely Vulgar - Place these instr1-
u1ents crosTwiss B7cn tte plate.
The conciusioa & orr dinner raises rxsis
ths vsxed question concerning the retirement
- the I1dT convi~es q ieave the ucn alone
O. ccurza. BE- Is vel understood that fhe OBJ
5ect Among tAs hard lrl-kiax Erelishrse-
of re iast generation. u-as - psruif s.self
sting Tor t5e excessive cousausF*4oa q VINE
wsiho'Is the dist1rafng rrssrafesx he SCI.
Tke French. beng isss sedtcred 70 ir.sxica-
ton. snsi Terhsps mora profsssa.flv attached
e. tte prursrce cf the FAR. did net s.inis
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