Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-08
Wyoming Table EtIquet.
TFrom BIN Nye's Boomerang.

There are a great many people who be-
have well otherwise, but at table they
do tnings that II not absolutely outre and
ensemble, are at least pianisslmo and
sine die.
1t is with a view to elevating the popu-
lar taste, and etherealizing, 50 to speak
the manners and customs OF our readers
that we give below few hints upon table
etiquet
If by writing an article OF this kind we
can induce one man who now wipes his
hands on the table-cloth to come up and
take higher ground, and wipe them on his
coat, we shall feel amply repaid
II you cannot accept an invitation tc
dinner, do not write your regrets on thu
back of a pool check with a blue pencil
This is now regarded as ricocnet A
sufficient note to your host informing him
that your washerwoman refuses to relent
is sufficient
On seating yourself at the table. draw
on your gloves and put them in your lar
under your napkin. Do not put them IN
the gravy, as 1t would ruin the gloves and
cast gloom over the gravy If you have
just cleaned your gloves with benzine
you might leave them out in the front
yard.
II you happen to drop gravy on your
knife-blade, back near the handle do moi
run the blade down your throat to remove
eAoNSt as IL ln1ure your eDi@
CLOTHS, and 1t Is not considered embou-
point, anyway,
When you are at dinner do mot take
up raw oyster on your fork and play-
fully ask your host II II Is dead re-
marks about death at dinner are in very
bad taste -'
Pears should be held by the stems and
peeled gentiy but firmly, not as though
you were slxinning a dead horse. If Is
not bon ton. 80
oranges are held on a fork while being
peeled, and the facetious style OF squirt
ing the juice into the eye OF your hostess
Is now au revoir.
Stones in cherries or other fruit should
not be placed upon the table-cloth. hut
slid quietly and unostentatiously into the
pocket or your neighbor or noiselessly
tossed under the table.
II you strike worm In your fruit do
not call attention to Ii by MASKING n with
a nut-cracker. This is not only uncouth
put 1t is regarded in the best society as
blase and exceedingly vice versa
Macaroni should be cut into short p,ecas
and eaten with an even graceful motion
not absorbed by the yard.
IN drinking wine, when you get To the
bottom OF the glass do not throw vo,,r
head back and draw in your breath IIt[a
tne exhaust OF bathtub in order to -at
t uhe last orop' as II engenders feeling of
the most depressing meIancholv arao, y.
the guests. 0"s
AFTER eating a considerable amount 10
not rise and unbuclSle your vest-stran IN
order TO get more room, as II is exceed-
ingly au fait and dishabille
by mistake you drink out of your
- ii Iotio po"I, laugh heartily and make some
Iaceuous remark which will chance the
course or conversation, and renew ths
the party. Vi
ladies' should take but one glass ~
VINE at dinner Otherwise there might
o oe . 9hilncuity In steering the male portion
DO not make remarks about tba o,,,,,..
your COMPANION has eaten. II the la,svs
wno Is your company at table. whAfhey
sne fpe your wife or the wife of some 'ona
e, should eat quite heartily, do NOT
~ V9 h 10 pay your host for his loss. or sav
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