Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-26
TIPS ON TABLE TOPICS.

FORKS arc used with tho right hand,
and arc pointed toward the mouth no
moro directly than Is necessary to put
food between tho lips.
Spoons with tea, coffee, chocolate and
bouillon remain in tho saucer when not
conveying liquid to the mouth. They
are correctly placed at the right of tho
cup whenever not in use.
LAY your knife and fork parallel with
each other and obliqucly across Il plato
that is to DO removed for the coming
of another course. TO forget this in
Crcascs noise when nh attendant Is
gathering them together.
IT is in bad taste to lay napkin over
tho breast. At elegant tables tho nap
Kin il only partly shaken from its folds,
and is then dropped in the lap to uso
for wiping tho lips and fingers. 1t is
supposed that those who have refined
table manners do not scatter crumbs or
drop food.
IL olives arc served with tongs, or a
spoon, or fork, use the Same to lift tho
fruit to your plate, but cat it with your
fingers. II thoro are no spoons. longs,
or forks, with which to serve yourself,
take the olives with your fingers and
not with your own fork or spoon. Do
tic Same with cut sugar.
Musr food Is eaten with n fork, tho
knifo being only ita prcparer, except
when cheese that Is neither grated nor
creamy IL purtaken OF as an cver-re-
spCctCd part Of a dessert. Hero it is
that knives retain their grip on ancient
custom and bring it down to modern
tables. Cheese is eaten with q knife.
AN attempt has been made to intro
ducc the wearing Of gloves ut table.
This plan Is too absurd an innovation,
and will never become u custom. Gloves
arc worn to tho table by women al
ways, anu 10 few mon prefer to wear
them: but they arc removed by both
men and women us soon as they are
seated.
Do NOT pass to another n plato that
has been sent to you by host or
hostess, because it disturbs tho plan of
your entertainer. 1t is silently taking
an exception to his sense of fitness or
courtesy and substituting your own in
its stead. or course this applies only
when competent service Ia ut hand In
it's absence, with the approval of host,
TO aid at table Is obligatory.
NEVER DUO OH u plcCC from your uln-
ncr bread. Do not cut tho bread served
you at any time. II it is to DO buttcrcd
take small bit, not moro than two
mouthfuls, and spread it.. A slice Of
buttcrcd bread ia much too suggestive of
tho nursery to please fastidious follow
guests. All warm bread should DO torn
apart, or broken, ana never cut. If it IL
served in largo pieces break it for YOUR
ncighbOr a.s.,;.
Forks arc laid for such dessert as arc
not wholly liquid, these Instruments be-
ing used to sop broken bits of pudding
in its sauce, thus banishinE tho spoon
whenever possible. 1ce-crcams arc
eaten with forks. but water ices with
spoons, and good form docs not tell us
why. Ito commands arc not often thus
arbitrary. Strawberries arc eaten with
forks. unless their lcnfv tips have q
stem, In wnlCn case IL ~ proper nnu
graceful to take each with tho fingers,
touch 1T to tho sugar lying upon Onc's
plate. thcn half dip it in cream and
place 1t to tho mouth. Tho Sumo scrv.
icc of sugar and cream ia performed by q
fork when Strawberries nro not served
with their stcms.