The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-19
NO TABLE MANNERS NOWADAYS
IT'S All Right to Sop Up Sauce win
pread and Lean on the Table.

uAyu Won look at that woman over
,bere2'' exclaimed a pretty girl WIN
trace of southern accent " How IN
the world did she get into sherry 81
The ewes of the woman she indicated
vere fixed intently on her plate. WIN
tLr end Of roll she was chasing an
over il the last trace Of sauce bef"a's'
" She did it with the skill of an ex-
merit The bread deftly sopped up eV
ar,, drop Of the sauce. Then she
s,yiftIv made a comprehensive sweep
NJ the plate. leaving it as dry as
bone, and deposited the bread IN her
mouth. ,--. e,od
An this time her thoughts were hXeI
on what she was doing. When she hau
POLISHED the plate and landeo tue
bread in her mouth she looked up loI
the first time. As her eyes wandered
She greeted some persons VINO hau
mst come in.
"Thcre 5 Mary Parsons she start
cd IA say 10 the friend with her
This ncrson must have had trained
Understanding. for the bit of roll sull
filed the mouth to which 1t had car.
,ieJ the sauce Bernaise and the result
If conversation was a succession OF
stuffv. choking sounds, incomprehen,
siblc to anybody not accustomed 10
them.
"Whv. never saw such table man
nars in nv life" commented again the
sot+ southern voice "Who in the
worId do YOU suppose she can be?'
That question proclaimed how much
of a stranger the speaker was IN New
York The woman who had attracted
her attention is very well known IN
deed. and most of the many persons to
whom she was bowling appeared 10 De
hattered by the attention, or at least
/ if was very welcome to them.
The writer of a recent novel concern
! mo English smart society finds a great
| dn9l 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 III certain
sets in New York today. e.,
"Who would ever suppose that IL
was considered smart to keep your ell
bows on the tablel' asked young
girl who is to be introduced to society
next wear and has been allowed TO 60
"a one or two dinners this spring. VI
used to be taught that one should new
er do such thing. Yet at dinner some
of the girls sit like that.
s'Next winter m going to put my
elbows on the table and hold my cham
pagne glass between my hands just as
saw a Young woman do last night and
then sin 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 al
laugh. ..... :.
@What chance did l have trying tc
eat as I had been told? Most every
body else had finished anyhow before
was half through. "
Slow eating has come to be conhne'
almost entirely to those persons VINO WI
FIetcherize or follow some sclentlh'
method of eating. Otherwise little time
is wasted.
"How can women sit around and ca
in the old prune and prism tashlo9F
one of them asked the other day
'swhen there is so much to be done an(
SO much to eat all the time9
!. CATER lunch one has to hurry 10
bridge. Then there S always something
with tea, and supper comes soon afte
dinner. So if we all sat around anC
ate slowly in the old-fashioned wa,
we d never have time to do anything
Whatever the cause may be, Their
arc many things tolerated at the taol
nowadays which would not have beel
excused a score of years ago. Some o
those acts observed at Sherry's are no
ticeable in many other places.-NeN
York Sun.