The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30

Of course you may not want to be well bred. Some people don't. But you ought to know whether you are
 or not. just the same. Then, if you are well bred, and don't want to be, | you can cure yourself of the habit. | If you are not we'll bred, you can be | better bred, which isn't the punning | bakery advertisement that 1t sounds like.
 We recently tried to find out If we
 were well bred by taking 22 tests | which we found in magazine. We | failed. We passed about 50 per cent
 of the tests, and flunked the rest of them.
 We thereupon decided we would get up some tests of our own--tests that
 would really tell us something about
 ourselves. Here they are: | 1. Are you clumsy Do you always l trip over the umbrella stand when as | a guest you enter a house? Do you 1 spill the soup on the tablecloth? Do
 you eat food with a knife that is ob- viously intended to be eaten with
 tho fingers?
 | 2. Are you rude? Do you say Rot ten!'' when your hostess asks you
 how you like the corn fritters? Do | you sniff at the butter before you | spread IL OH yOur pIcdu | 3. Are you dishonest? Do you slip
 knives and forks in your pocket and 1 take them home with you? Do you
 pick the pockets of other guests? 1 f. Are you qarrelsome? Do you ! get into heated arguments with your 1 fellow guests and threaten to knock
 their blocks off if they don't agree
 with you about the League of Ma
 tions, or If they think Governor COX l will have a chance in 1924?
 5. Are you gabby? Do you do all l the talking and refuse to listen to
 anyone else?
 6. Are you sullen? Do you sit in corner and refuse to say anything but. "Aw beat it outa here" when anybody addresses you?
 | [. Are wou a tight wad? Do you l find an errand in the telephone booth
 when the waiter is due to bring the | check? Do you always wait to reach 1 for the car fare till the other fellow
 has paid it?
 | s. Are you disputatious? Do you | always insist that every statement
 made by anybody else is based on ig-
 norance or transformation? Do you | invariably pull out a s bill when for 1 example a man says it will be cold winter and offer to bet him that 1t l won't?
 g. Are you slovenly? Do you lis. l to sit around the house in your stock- ing feet whene there is company :. l 10. Are you boastful? Do you 'eli
 a room full of people in loud tone | of voice that you could buy and veil | the whole gang and not think It worth | while to record the transaction? l 12. Are you tactless? Do you ask ladies' who have had family misfor- | tunes whether 1t was the penitentiary l or the countN tall that their rthes l in-law was sent to in 1915, and how
 much time he got off for good be- l havior?
 l 1s. Are you incorporate? DO you 1 come into a strange house asking the 1 hostess to call you early because you l are to be queen of the May? | IA. Are you addicted to fla.tery! l Do you tell a woman who IS ob-
 viously 60 years old that she looks | like a mere child. and ask her what 1 boarding school she is atten @g
 Do you insist that very plainly fur
 nished house is far more sumptuous l than the vanderfeller masion, where l you dined last week?
 15. Arc you rough Do you slap | your host on the back or kick him in the shins as soon as you arrive? Do you pick up tho rolls and throw
 them playfully about the dinner
 table?
 Is. Are you hilarious? Do you laugh long and loudly at your own
 jokes, and. do funny movie comedian stunts with the chairs and furniture IT. Are you knocker? Do you paste everybody who is mentioned,