Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1882 — In Olden Days. [ARTICLE]

In Olden Days.

Bluff Harry, the much-married, who died in 1617, never used a fork. The great Queen Bess had several presented to her, but only used the article on state occasions, probably when the foreign Ambassadors were present who had presented her the “esthetic” article as a gift fit for a sovereign. High breeding in those days consisted in skill in so using the fingers that the hand should not

be smeared quite to the wrist. That feat accomplished, nothing more was desired in the way of table etiquette.