East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-06
ETIQUETTE N WYOMING. BY
BILL NYE.

1
There are a great many people who
behave we'll otherwise. but at table
they do things that II not absolutely
.outre and ensemble, are at least plan
issino and sine die.
1t is with a view to elevating the
popular taste, and etherealizing, so to
speak. thSmanners and customs of our
readers, that we give below a few
hints upon table etiquette.
II 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 can not accept an invitation
to dinner, do not write your regrets
on the back of a pool check with
blue rencil. This is now regarded as
ricochet. \ sufficient note to your
host informing him that your washer
woman refuses to relent is sufficient
on seating Yourself mt the table
draw off your gloves. and put them
in your lap under your napkin. DO
not put them in the gravy. as it would
ruin the gloves and cast gloom over
the gravy. If you have Just cleaned
your gloves with ben2ine. You might
leave them out i'm the front yard.
II YOU happen to drop gravy on
your knife blade back near the har-
die do not run the blade down your
throat to remove the gravy. as Il
might injure your epiglottis. and It is
not considered embonpoint, anyway.
When you are at dinner do not take
up raw oyster on your fork and
playfully ask your host if it is dead.
Remarks about death at dinner are in
very poor taste.
Pears should be held by the stems
and peeled gently but firmly. not as
though YOU We're skinning a dead
horse. 1t is not bon ton.
Oranges are held on a fork while
being peeled and the facetious style
of squirting 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, but slid quietly and unostenta-
ticusly into the pocket of your neigh
Dor or nOiselessly tossed under the
table.
II you strike a worm in your fruit.
do not call attention to it by mashing
1t with the nut cracker. This is not
only uncouth but it is regarded in the
hest society as blaze and exceedingly
vice versa.
Macaroni should be cut into short
pieces and eaten with an even. grace
full motion, not absorbed by the yard.
In drinking wine, when you get to
the bottom of the glass do not throw
your head back and igaw in your
breath like the exhaust of a bath tub
in order to get the last drop, as it en-
genders a feeling of the most depress-
ing melancholy among the guests.
After eating considerable amount.
do not rise and unbuCkle your YES;
strap in order to get more room as it
is exceedingly au fait and dishabille.
If by mistake you drink out Of your
finger bowl, laugh heartily and make
some facetious remark. which will
change the course of conversation and
renew the friendly feeling among the
members of the party.
Ladies should take but one glass of
wine at dinner. Otherwise there might
be difficulty in steering the male por-
ton of the procession home.
Do not make remarks about the
amount your companion has eaten. If
the lady who is your company at table.
whether she be your wife or the wife
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