The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-05
With the Long Bow
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New Kink in Table Manners Imported from England
Latest Dtctum Is that You May Not Eat What You
Do Not Want-Politeness no Longer Expressed by
Making Yourself Sick. -

NEW kink in table manners has been imported
N from England and Is having run with us smart
A set It is simply this to refuse to eat anything
that you don't want. ..~~L .
Heretofore it has been thought the rudest of all
rude things not to at least preense OF eating
little of everything served at formal dinner party
Little American boys and girls have been brought up
old precept Of eating everything set before them
and many woman has made herself sick eating for
politeness sake what she ddn t want #, 1"-&~s
But now it all is different. Social circles gradually
have been taking notice that the men and women re-
turned from foreign trips have exercised their own
sweet will and nothing else when it to partakng
of the food offered them. .., ~.
Of her choicest decacies go around the table almost
untouched
''It is part of the school of manners, which
S are just at al, - said somewhat old
fashioned matron in Chicago. ''The younger genera
ton in New York. which takes it's from the disso
Lutte utrasmart set Of London believes in doing
actly what it wants, and in not putting itself out to
be polite courteous to anyone. It is something Of
effort to help oneself to food doesn It for,
these young people simply have discontinued the
courteous old CUSTOM -
Another who believes IL, being comfortable
despite the requirements told of dinner given by her
in London in which number Of American dishes
served
'And not one Of my guests would touch them,"
saw they something with which they were not
acquainted, and refused to try them. felt dreadfuy
about 1t at the time but afterward it occurred to
that it was sensible after all. If you don't want
thing, why should you take 9 That's the reasoning
back Of tho new idea and it seems to me rather log
1t is said also that the habit Of hollering at the
top your voice and trying to keep everybody fercey
talking every minute has also gone out Often there
One sits quietly enjoying his food thinking Of
something interesting and is not bothered by the hos
tess or by those who are helping her s|entertein -
the table, yelling fercely and cutting off everybody
who tries to get in quiet observation in ordinary
tone.
If these social tendencies continue, we NAV vet
m md natf7r onH 11xy
Joy the amenities Of life. Perhaps this is part Of
that old millennium they have been promising for
50 long.
This matter Of the conventions also holds the male
sex in its clammy grasp. It applies particularly to-
the social drinking of beer and liquors Drinking
ztes with it kind Of etiquette that disikes
to refuse to drink for the that he has in
the past disiked to refuse to eat things that were
beer is poor drink It lays unhealthy tissue and
1t plays tag with the kidneys. We refuse to drink
it, except when want it and that is remarkably
Dr.. H. s. Tanner the FASTER who in 1887 went
forty-two days without eating, subsisting water
f merely, is resident Of Los Angeles He has
recently challenged any beer drnker to endurance
test The beer drnker is to live exclusively on beer
and he, will take nothing but WATER the test to be
continued until the superiority Of beer or water is
demonstrated as life sustainer He has offered to
pit himself against six beer drinkers Dr. Tanner,
now 76 years of age and hale and hearty makes this
challenge because it is often asserted that beer is
heathful, wholesome, life-giving beverage.
The fact is that if did not dislike to be pecu-
liar there would be much less beer consumed. Why
be held by this absurd conventionY
M@
: A colored stable boss in a livery in Spring alley
near Fourteenth street in Pittsburg makes his own
ederberry wine at home and sometimes takes little
down to his studio to refresh the inner after
the hot fy1ey job Of laundering the horses.
The other day ''the gang' that always sits around
the livery stable enjoying the perfume and expeotorat
ing the floor had theirs handed out to them while
the stable boss was at dinner, William Bounce, aged
81, better known "Bily'' Bounce, spied the Jug
The liquid did not taste familiar, but the crowd drani
Of it. In few minutes all taken violently Ill
They sprawed the benches and Of them nearl,
died. LARGE can of milk was procurei and +ha