Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — New Hints for Table Etiquette. [ARTICLE]

New Hints for Table Etiquette.

Nye's Boomerang. There are a great many people who behave well otherwise, but at the table they do things that if not absolutely outre and ensemble, are at least pianissimo and sine die. It is with a view to elevating the popular taste and etberiallziug, so to speak, the manners and Customs of our readers, that we give below a few hints upon table etiquette. On seating yourself at the table draw off your gloves and put them ui your lap under yonr napkin. If you have just cleaned your gloves with benzine, you might leave them in the front yard. When you are at a dinner do not take up a raw oyster on your and playfully ask your host il it is dead. Remarks about death at dinner are in very poor.taste. Pears should be held by the stems and peeled gently but firmly, not as though you were skinning a dean horse. It is not bon ton.

Oranges are beld on a fork while being-peeled, and the facetious style of squirting the juice into the eyes of your hostess is now au revoir. .Stones in cherries or other fruit should not be placed upon the tablecloth, but slid quietly and unostentatiously into the pocket of your neighbor or noiselessly tossed under the table. If you strike a worm in your fruit do not call attention to it by mashing it in the nut cracker. This is not only uncouth, but 1* regarded in the best society as blase ana exceedingly vice versa. Macaroni should be cut into shor pieces and eaten with an even.graceiu motion, not absorbed by the yard. In drinking wine, when you get to

the. bottom of your glass do not throw your bead back and draw in your breath like the exhaust of a batl.-tttb n order to get the last dro Pi aH it engenders a feeling of the most depressing melancholy among the guests. After eating a considerable amount do not arise and unbuckle your ve*t strap in order to get more room, as it is exceedingly au fait and dishablflk'' If by mistakeyou di-iuk out of your finger bowl, laugh heartily and make some facetious remark which wid change the course of conversation stpd renew the friendly feeling among trta members of the party. . >• j •m ' ♦