The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29
VONANS WOKLD

snjendidw she exclaimed, her
Ion, and her eyes bright with ex-
seven courses-not counting the
u'- ,,ktaiI to begin wtth-and never
r,isstroke with fork or knife, and
ma -..z no end Of brand new implements,
.,r,a near making terrible mis-
"' ,.,,r with the oyster cocktail You
cue lining room was rather dark, be-
,.-,.t.1 only with pink shaded candles
m7 49,, ,loon the cocktail looked just
.b.riar. I couldn't imagine, of
what a sherbet was doing there at
.,,. hut il was not mine TO reason
ana so plunged boldly in, resolved
mp die with the first weapon that
,t all fitted to meet the sherbet
-, and [ came dreadfully near TO
with modification. For fraction
- second ] hesitated between a long
,r, handled spoon and short, fat, gold
AM, and then-with what 1 consid-
,,,arvelous forethought, decided the
lam, slim handldel one could better be
ID for future contingencies and Sc
,.l the short. fat one. 1 was just tot
r-rI4 0tlih VI NileAt NSe'NNN'AA 'AN4A -
IN NV fingers when 1 looked up and beheld
enc hostess eating hers with an oyster
I'll. 1J,.arm actually was palsied, 1 was
.,,,rne5 and l had great difficulty in
.,ti,, ANYTHING like my usual deXtrous
ii'D - cbauge' [ didn't fully recover
frorn The shock until well into the soup.
.@5,,r the best part of the luncheon, after
oil was that there was another country re-
Istion there beside myself She sat rlght
n-a,si-s me- poor thing, and 1 just gloated
aver her misery. If anything, she was
,,or. of q freshman than l, because she
rad ror heen graduated from the waiting
.-yyrat -ot hers-do-stage and with each
nav, ,onrse paced before her l could see
Tho terrible mental struggle that was go
an and knew Just how her mind was
hing torn with doubts between the long
lined fork for the entree and the snort,
thin one for the salad. ON, II was pltltul
b tbo u,av her poor little country relation
sne.rs trembled over the knives and forks
and spoons. l knew she felt just the way
.,, 40 when YOU watch the dentist hunt
no around among his tools for some new
a instrument 10 torture you with. Really L
svnnatbized with her from the bottom of
INV heart, but l could not resist the temp
tation to lead her astray once or twice,
and honestly it was the best kind of
lesson for IL VIII ltdGn IlNi AIl6 July VI tAIC
vaitiug-to-see- what-others-do habit. That
ID such weak, vascillating policy, you
l,nov that really by the time the salad is
reached YOU haven't mind of your own
left and besides, it demands such an I'M
relerting surveillance over the other
guests that your tongue, which should be
YOUR most powerful ally in concealing your
IGNORANCE is effectually bridled and the
mark of the country relation is branded
i,Fr ri, 1,a 4
looked at some dish the butler was serving
and had refused 10 take any-and that re-
minds me of how l once for
cot the exception to the rule
and did something atrociously worse.
at was some time ago, when it was the
custom 10 pass great heaping baskets of
fruit. 1t was altogether decorative
course, and guests were expected to take
grape or two or a fresh fig with which
the basket was ornamented, and leave the
foundation of larger fruit undisturbed.
As | saw the basket making the circuit
Of the table l was so overcome with fear
that an orange would be thrust upon me
and that l would not know the latest
method of dissecting it, that when the
butler finally reached me and I saw big
yellow banana exposed l grabbed for it
ravenously, as though I had not tasted
food in weeks. l happened to be almost
an instant what l had done. There were
all the other guests daintily nibbling at
uny grape or fig and there was that
gnasty, hideous, awful banana in front
OF me-
was younger then, and presume my
imagination was more highly keyed up; at
any rate, that banana held me in a hor-
Iole speH-tascinated me- 1 couldn't get
my mind away from it, And as l sat
mere with my eyes glued upon it, it
seemed TO change into a horrible mon
suous grinning thing that leered at me
ana 'auntod me with my poor country bred
manners
VI course it was a trivial, insignificant
'hihg' and | doubt whether any of the
e1ests noticed it at all, but 1 had been
anticipating and dreading that luncheon
SO long, and my nerves were so over
"iousht that when the affair was all over
ana me hateful thing had been removed,
"11udily was on the verge Of nervous pros
"Uoi ana registered a vow that never
So ons as lived would / be enticed away
0 ON my own humble table again.
Vn' OF course, you who live upon such
ui''Hefs every day of your lives" the young
"ouiah went on, noticing for the first time
'ooh OF polite amazement on her visit
ace cannot appreciate the state of
.'" % country bred woman in moderate
INSTANCES when she receives an invi-
con 10 a large dinner party from one
nef city friends, but it is the event of
year TO her-the thing most to be look
onward 10 and dreaded. She is not an
ii7'ioiahl nor an Inbred woman and she
'9 'ols OF pretty things of her own at
,r' put in the rural environments in
i "".lH she lives it is impossible for her to
, p up on all the newest dishes and the
1,ious OF serving them at a fashionable
any ulnner and when she goes to one
COMMITS no conspicuous biunder she
u'luIaily elated-iust as l am. | must
tss' though, that the times when
I,.,. I'll proud of myself have more than
u onset by the thought of the glaring
1t1N5s and the other members of my
i"iniiy have made. ''
t ter shall l forget the encounter-or
''-es OF encounters-my husband had
e." 'ue chicken patties. He was then
NJ looking o-see- what-others-do stall.
&c., us Hfst engagement with the patties
az the home of woman who had to
N''eHely careful in her diet. and. of
sbl patty crust was one of the things
,r lyuld not eat. My Instantaneous
Haolt than anything else in this
,5 slanced at his hostess and discover