Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-12-06
TIPS ON TABLE TOPICS.

FORKS are used with the right hand, and are pointed toward the mouth no more directly than is necessary to put food between the lips.
 SPOONS with tea, coffee, chocolate and bouillon remain in the saucer when not conveying liquid to the mouth. They are correctly placed at the right of the cup whenever not in use.
 LAY your knife and fork parallel with each other and obliquely across plate that is to be removed for the coming of another course. To forget this in- creases noise when an attendant is gathering them together.
 IT is in bad taste to lay napkin over the breast. At elegant tables the nap kin is only partly shaken from its folds, and is then dropped in the lap to use for wiping the lips and fingers. It is supposed that those who have refined table manners do not scatter crumbs or drop food.
 IF olives are served with tongs, or spoon, or fork, use the same to lift the fruit to your plate, but eat it with your fingers. If there are no spoons, tOngS, or forks, with which to serve yourself, | take the olives with your fingers and not With your own fork or spoon. Do the sam with cut sugar.
 MosT foo1 is eaten with a fork, the knife being only it's preparer, except when cheese t.at is neither grated nor creamy IS partaSen of as an ever-re- | spected part of dessert. Here it is that knives retain their grip on ancient custom and bring 1t down to modern tables. Cheese is eat>u with knife. AN attempt has been made to intro | duce the wearing of gnves at table. This plan is too absurd an innsvation. and will never become custom. Gloves are worn to the table by wonAn al- ways, and few men prefer to wear them; but they are removed by Ath l men and women as soon as they ase seated.
 Do NOT pass to another plate that has been sent to you by a host or hostess, because it disturbS the plan of 1 your entertainer. 1t is silently taking an exception to his sense of fitness or courtesy and substituting your own in | its stead. Of course this applies only when competent service is at hand In its absence, with the approval of host, to aid at table is obligatory.
 NEVER bite of piece from your din- ner bread. Do not cut the bread served you at any time. If it is to be buttered take small bit, not more than two mouthfuls, and spread it. A slice of buttered bread is much too suggestive of the nursery to please fastidiOus fellow | guests. All warm bread should be torn | apart, or broken, and never cut If it is served in large pieces break it for your neighbor also. | FORKS are laid for such dessert as are not wholly liquid, these instruments be- ing used to sop broken bits of pudding in it's sauce, thus banishing the spoon whenever possible. Ice-creams are eaten with forks, but water ices with spoons, and good form does not tell us why. Its commands are not often thus arbitrary. Strawberries are eaten with forks, unless their leafy tips have a stem, in which case It IS proper and graceful to take each with the fingers, touch it to the sugar lying upon ones plate, then half dip it in cream and place it to the mouth. The same serv- ice of sugar and cream is performed by a fork when strawberries are not served \ with their stems