Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-09-06

'oou "'hfilers ana SOFT words have
brought many a difficult thing to pass
Aesop.
You must practice
Inc manners Of the times, If you intend
To have favors from II.
Inc Goops they lick their fingers.
And the Goops they lick their knives;
They spill their broth on the tablecloth..
Oh, they lead disgusting lives.
-Gelett Burgess.
MENU. SUNDAY, SEPT. o. 1906.
BREAKFAST.
Grapes and Peaches
Fried Salt Pork and Fried Apples
Dreamed Potatoes
Baking Powder Biscuit
DINNER.
Bisque of CLAIMS
Roast Beef, Drowned Potatoes
' summon Squash
Beet Salad
Apple Pie. with Cream Cheese
Coffee
SUPPER.
Saratoga Chips
Cold Roast. Horse Radish
Brown and White Bread Sandwiches
Baked Sweet Apples with Cream
Jumbles
Tea
From the earliest times the Importance
of good table manners has been re-
coEnized. Even our dignined Wash
ington deemed them of sufficient i'm
portance to write n treatise on the
subject Make no show of taking
great delight in your v~ictuals." said
he: "fced not with greediness: lean
not on tho table. neither find fault
with what you eat
In Colonial days books of etiquette
for the young paid special attention
to the necessity of cultivating attractive
manners AT the table. In popular
"Booke of Manners" a reprint of an
English edition published in London in
1901. tho following explicit directions were
given for the conduct of the young:
Eat not too fast nor with Greedy Be
havior. Eat not vastly but moderately.
Make no noise with thy Tongue. Mouth,
Lips or Breath in Thy Eating or Drink
ing. Smell not of thy Meat. nor put 1t
to Thy Nose: turn is not the other side
upward on Thy Plate. Bite not they
bread. but break It; but not with SLOW
enly fingers, nor with the same where
with thou takest up they meat. Dip not
thy meat in the Sauce. Take not salt
with a groazy Knife, Spit not, Cough not,
nor blow thy Nose at Table, If it may be
avoided but If there he necessity, do 1t
aside. and without much noise. Lean
not thy Elbow on the Table, or on the
Back Of thy Chair, stuff not thy mouth
so as 70 Ill thy Cheeks: be content with
smaller mouthfuls. Blow not thy Meat
but with Patience wait till it he cool.
Sup not thy Broth at the Table, but
eat it with a spoon
While the minor details of table man
ners vary witt the years on broader limos,
they still remain the same-consideration
for others, the suppression Of animal like
characteristics. such as Gluttony and
greediness. and the cultivation of those
finer instincts that makes the breakina
of bread together a beautiful family or
dinance. not a wild schamble of pigs al
a trough-an eating to live. not a living
to eat.
Good manners should b6 inKrained. moi
superficial, and put on for company. re
make them natural, training should be
begun as soon as n child is able to sit al
the table. If a little one is early laugh,
by example and precept all those little
details that mark n person of gentle
breeding, he will always appear to ad-
vantage and that without self con.
seriousness.
II always like to take n meal with a
man before engaging him for my school,
said a prominent educator. y matter
how brilliant a record he may nave as
a scholar, II his manners are boorish
do not care to have him"
Boorishness must not be confused with
ingorance OF who's who and whats
what" in the thousand and one table
accessories, knives, forks, spoons. glasse.
and the like. that no one but the manu-,
facturer can keep tab on. A person may
be gentle-mannered ana not be able tc
tell the difference between an olive fori
and a butter pick. a bouillon cup and q
tea cup. a sherbet glass and one for G
cocktail. He shows a distinct lacking II
manners. however, when he stabs the
bread with a fork, gobbies his food, mas
~ticates audibly and with opened mouth
smudges his glass in drinking, talks witt
his mouth full, shovels in his food with
a knife, pricks, punches and pokes thu
general dish of bread, cake or fruit t
De sure ne is getting the best, or Snlfr!
ostentatiously at each article Of food a.
placed before him.
TABLE DONTS,
A list of table don'ts that should b.
taught every child runs something Xix,
this:
Don't sit down at the table until thu
mother or older persons are seated. (I'hi!
of course after the child leaves the higl
chair and bib period)
Don't drum with the fingers. play witt
knife or fork, roll bread into pellets. pu
elbows on the table, fdget or monopoliz'
the conversation.
Don't expect to be waited upon first
Elders first, then girls before the boys
Don't drink without first wiping thu
mouth with Il napkin, so as not TO leave
a smudge.
Don't criticise the food. II you dom
like it, leave it.
Don't use the fingers as a pusher. TAX,
q bit of bread.
Don't take SOUP from the point of tn,
spoon. but from the side, dipping bacl
< in the plate. not forward.
:. Don't leave a teaspoon standing in thu