Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-12-09
ETIQUETTE.
A Metropolitan Society Ex-
pert offers Some Original
Suggestions.

Q. 1) | am to give my first dinner
party week from next Tuesday
Please tell me where | should be
when the guests arrive. (2) Should
| shake hands with the ladies, and
what should | do with the gentlemen!
A. o. You should make it point
to be somewhere in the same police
precinct when your guests arrive.
This is really imperative. (2) The
parlor is considered by many hostes-
ses to be preferable to the fire escape.
Receive the ladies calmly. Do not
let them suspect that the last boat
with your cook has gone against you.
Practise at odd moments a ripping,
light hearted laugh. 1t may prevent
your guests from realizing that your
thoughts are imprisoned IN the oven
with the biscuits. You may shake
hands with the guests from whom
you have borrowed the oyster forks
and the after dinner coffee spoons.
They are the only ones you really
have to fear. Instead of the con-
ventional phase, allow do you dor"
$50 glad to see you,' used in greet
ing the gentlemen, you may substi-
tute, whats yours?" or essay when. F"
You wall find find that this method
places your gentlemen guests at their
ease speedily and sometimes per-
manently.
=. is 1t proper for a gentleman
to lean over the table on his elbows.
A. 1t is mol considered quite good
form; yet 1t is more desirable to have
the gentleman lean over the table on
his elbows than slip under 1t on his
spinal column. A hostess intuition
should tell hel whether the guest
is leaning on the table purely from
ill-bred carelcssness or from a laUd-
able ambition to take observations
and corral his thoughts.
. | am expecting to attend large
formal function next month, and |
should like to be informed on the
correct methods of announcing
guests.
A. II you are a Tammany Alder
man, a megaphOne should be used
in announcing you. Plain, common
citizens are announced usually by a
truckdriver disguised as King George
III.
@. desire to become a housemaid
in private family. What are the
duties and how should dressy
A. Your duties will consist prin-
cipally of destroying the bric-a-brac,
dainty bits of Dresden, and all valu-
able souvenirs which you may have
reason TO suspect your mistress es-
pecially prizes. Your afternoon
should be devoted to the grocer's
boy and your evenings to the police
man. For the house you should
wear pink crepe de chine, with blue
moire yoke, covered with duchess
lace and jabots of the same lace from
yoke to hem. For the street black
brOadcloth skirt, or even a tailor
made gown, provided 1t Is offset with
a double breasted sealskin Bacque, is
appropriate and stylish. Avoid dia-
monds before breakfast.
q. % How should Saratoga chips
be eaten2 Is it proper to use your
hands in conveying them to the
mouth? (2) How should hot bak-
ed potato be handled?
a. Q) The Saratoga chip should
be conveyed to the mouth with a
monkey wrench; the one from your
bicycle tool bag may suffice, Once
landed, is eaten by opening and
closing your mouth to the music of a
Hungarian orchestra. CIV The hot
baked potatoe shyuld be handled
with boxing gloves.
Q. How should a gentleman help
lady into a cable car?
A. If the lady is stout a derrick
can ne used successfully. In ordin
ary cases he should hurl her dOWT
the aisle aud then speed for his life
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