The San Francisco call., 1903-12-20

q napkin spread 0ToP Cho olOCh az my
place. II " entirely too suggestive OF
the Emau animals In the back yard
that eat from a trough and I'd
straIghtWay show the family that he
was no friend or even q passing ac-
quaintance Of mine. And It's the same
with the bib. Yes. It's all very we'll
and good to declare that you don't
wear a bib and haven't used one for
the past three years, but pray tell
what Is the napkin that dnds tts way
around your neck 50 often, especially
when you have your best SundAy-go-
connecting clothes onG It looks
strangely like a bib to the uninttiated.
There isn't any rhyme or reason for
II SO far a. I can SEQ, for you NEST
certainly aren't a baby and III war
rant ten to one you'd be ma64er than
q wet hen at the mere idea and be
willing 70 fight II cut In ths back
yard.
II you were invited = = CnTSstaas
dinner and tree wouldn't y0u be VIA
to goI Well I wonder. YoTd see
80 excited over Il On the 0vOntfui day
that you couldn't eat nor sleep. just
trail about the house bothsrinR meth
er to know II 1t wasn't TINA - gsl
dressed.
Christmas dinners are fnst % raa.W
goodies and It's hard 70 wait pae1anS-
ly sometimes, but there again comes
In your training. You don't suppose
for an instant that father would FuGh
on 70 the dintns-room and Eit And d.
YOUR the pretty things with h4s gyoa,
do you? And you don't think that he
would set or into a corner and Ask
In a great, big stage whisper, 'TWhan'll
dinner be ready? I'm so hungry"
I'm afraid he wouldn't be InvftDA
more than once. FOR even Il you RF0
nearly famished IT Isn't polite 70 rush
49,
to have dinner on time as yOu ara ana
the least delay causes her untold an1-
iety.
1t has always been mere - ~ 4
mystery to me to know lust VIM boyl
fight 50 against going 10 danc1nn
school. You AL make q systematic
business OF getting home from play
a little late; II takes twice a. long to
get dressed and then II there is q con-
venient puddle you seem to TAXA q
particular delight IN seeing how much
muddy water you can splash en- your
selves.
But, you see. II you have been ka ths
habit OF dancing you wouldn't feed thn
least bit bashful or awkward when VOC
march into the dining-roon, and even
after you are seated you won't feel az
though the cat had your tongue and
wouldn't give II back. Look at Harry
Rothschild. Josephine Lindsay and lit
tie Gordon and Sophie Osborn. for in
stance They didn't even give Il a SEQ
ond thought. but sat up like well bred
little gentlemen and ladies'.
You know, or at least you ouwht to
II you don't, that since the year one the
daily meals. eaten In company with
others. have been social as well as gas
tronomfc functions and that no matter
how busy you may be yo1 viii always
have to find time to eat. and the sooner
you learn how to do II nicely without
awkwardness or embarrassment the
better for you, for let me tell you right
here that nothing Is more difficult to
uproot when you are grown than little
careless habits formed at the table In
babyhood.
OF course, everywhers you go you aro
bound to find some boys and girls that
are greedy but even II you are espe-
cially fond Of icecream OF plum pudding
don't look at your neigh5or's dish with
envious ewes to see II by any hook or
crook she has more than you have
That Is so ill-mannered- And Just re-
member one little thing about II: Prob
ably your eyes are a great deal bigger
than your stomach, and even II you
had been given more you couldn't have
gotten away with II.
Don't be IN too much OF a hurry to
get to the Christmas tree. Always take
Dlentv OF time to -. for when YOU
are invited out to dine you are not ex-
pected to bolt your food and run Be-
tween courses sit back Ieisurely as yoDl
think the President of the United
States might: and, by the wav IL you
try to pattern after the first lady and
first gentleman in the land you can't
20 far wrong, and for all you know
YOU might be called upon to take his
or her place some Soy.