Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1884 — The Finger-Bowl in Nevada. [ARTICLE]

The Finger-Bowl in Nevada.

The finger-bowl is tabooed, according to a society journal. Many years ago a distinguished French gourmet declared that the use of this appliance indicated ignorance of the art of eating, since an accomplished master of the knife and fork would never soil his fingers at the table. This has always been the Comstock notion. Meadow Lake was the only mining town on the Pacifio coast that stuck up for the finger-bowL The town is now dead. It may be that the finger-bowl killed it. It is said that in early days a few finger-bowls were used in Johntown. Well, it may be so—the town has been dead for many years— Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.