The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-30
TABLE MANNERS.
Now It's All Right 70 Sop Up Sauce with
Bread and Lean on Ones Elbows.

will you look at that womanlover there?"
exclaimed a pretty girl with a trace of
Southern accent. "How in tHe world did
she get into Sherry's?'
The eyes of the woman she i1iicated we're
fixed intently on her plate. WIKI the end of
a roll she was chasing all ovtr it the last
trace of sauce Bernaise it contained.
She did it with the skill OF al expert. The
bread deity sopped up every drop Of the
sauce. Then she swiftly made a compre-
hensive sweep of the plate, letving it as dry
as a bone, and deposited the bread in her
mouth.
All this time her thoughts we're fixed on
what she was doing. When she had pol
ished the plate and landed the bread in her
mouth she looked up for the krst time. As
her eyes wandered she greeted some per-
sons who had just come in.
There's Mary Parsons" she started to
say TO the friend with her.
This person must have hat a trained I'M
derstanding. for the bit Of r6l still filled the
mouth to which il had Carried the sauce
Bernalse and the result OF ctnversation was
a succession of stufiy, choking sounds. in
comprehensive to anybody not accus-
toned to them.
why, | never saw such table manners in
my life!' commented again the soft South
ern voice. Who in the world do you sup
pose she can be-"
That question proclaimed how much OF a
stranger the speaker was i1Hew York. The
woman who had attracted her attention il
very well known indeed, and most of the
many persons to whom she was bowling ap-
peared to be fattered by the attention, or
at least il was very welcome TO them.
The writer of a recent novel concerning
English smart society finds a great deal to
say about table manners or rather the lack
of them. Very much the same view as to
the uselessness OF table manners as they
were understood formerly seems to prevail
in certain sets in New York to-day.
who would ever suppose that it was
considered smart to keep your elbows on
the table?'' asked a young girl who is to be
introduced to society next year and has been
spring. Il used to be taught that one
should never do such a thing. Yet at din
ner some OF the girls sit like that.
Next winter I'm going to put my elbows
on the table and hold my champagne glass
between my hands just as ] saw a young
woman do last night and then sip it up.
She had more attention than any other
woman at the table. She made pills out
OF the bread, threw them at the men and
made them all laugh.
] had been told? Most everybody else
had finished anyhow before | was half
through"
Slow eating has come to be confined al
most entirely 20 those persons who Fletcher
ize or follow some scientific method OF eat
ing. Otherwise little time is wasted.
How can women sit around and tat in
the old prune and prism fashion, one Of
them asked the other day. when there is
so much TO he done and 30 much 70 eat all
the timer
After lunch one has to hurry for bridge.
Then there's always something with tea
and supper comes soon after dinner. So IL
We all sat aroun and ate slowly in the old
fashioned way we'd never nave time to do
anything
Whatever the cause may be. there are
many things tolerated at the table nova
days which would not have been excused
a score OF years ago. Some Of those acts
observed at Sherry's are noticeable in many
other places,