Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-18

mana is eaten by cutting it in two in the middle and removing the edible part with a spoon. The peel or outer husk of the banana is not eaten, but may be deftly secreted in the coat pocket of a neighboring guest while his attention is directed toward the pope's retrousse nose on the turkey. Table manners, in order to attract attention, should be &C., curate, however, and never by any means interrupted by conversation. Should you get gravy on the blade of your knife away up near the hilt, you should not undertake to remove it with the tongue or insert it without reserve in the mouth, but keen whistle through the clinched teeth will bring a servant or some paSSer by on the street who will attend to you. Possibly policeman might answer your call 2. am sorry that you lost your first, Last and only love in such dra matic way. It seems to me that if his love had been of the right sort, when you came to play his accompaniment and stir up the cold clay of the dead rooster that had crawled into the melodeon and perished, be would have overlooked it and loved you still He might have still given you his hand in marriage, holding his nose with the other until help came. Such man could not have made you happy, and rejoice to know that you got shet of him.
 IgnOminnie, Tailholt, Ind.-It is the duty of the mother to call upon the moth CT of the young lady to whom her son is engaged-that is, it is the duty of the sons mother to call upon the mother of the girl to whom the mothers son is en- gagged, but as you have no mother, your own mother having accepted an invita- tion last fall to go to Europe with a kind hearted roue from town, and you living with your father, 1 am satisfied that it is the duty of the mother of your intend ed or financier, as the French call him, to call upon your father, and the fact that she is widow of good reputation and owning a prosperous tannery and strawberry bed should cut no ice in the matter, if you will pardon the bluntness of a scholarly man who wishes to be per fectly direct and honest with you.
 Patti de Foy Gras, Hickory, N. c. l. Yes, your handwriting is unique, but it is not calculated to command large prices from the magazines. Your idea that lit erary excellence and Spencerian penman- ship are synonymous is an error. It often happens that the most graceful writers" " as you call them, do not sue ceed in letters. A warm friend of mine, who went to New York armed with let ters from me to such men as Mir. How els, is now after years of patient labor writing addresses on large packing cases for store on Twenty third street, and his friends think that he is engaged in literary pursuits because he tells them that his writings go everywhere and that his life is wholly given up to let ters. ?. You carried the matter little too far, Patti, and your artistic tastes led you to fall down, as it were, when you skewered the rib roast with your or namental hatpin. A hatpin may be used to pick the kernel out of pecan, to hold window up, to drive away a burglar who is under the bed, to pune ture an Easter egg, to tap dropsical friend, to waken ones husband in church, ill eating strawberries daintily, to se- cure rare bug i'll the field or one not so rare at a hotel, to crack ice, to culti- vate corn, to clean q typewriting ma