Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises

If the guest has dirty hands, 5 points. If the guest uses wrong fork or spoon, 5 points. If the guest chokes on bone, 8 points. If the guest blows on soup, 5 points. If the guest drops fork or spoon, 3 points. If the guest spills soup on table, 10 points. If the guest spills soup on self, 1 point. Of course it is often well to tell the guests about the game in advance in order that they may not feel embarrassed but will enter thoroughly into the spirit of this helpful sport. A CHILD’S GARDEN OF ETIQUETTE Children can also acquire knowledge more easily if it is imparted to them in the form of verse or easy rhymes, and many valuable facts about the dinner table can be embodied in children’s verses. A few of these which I can remember from my own happy childhood are as follows: Oh, wouldn’t it be jolly To be a nice hors d’œuvre And just bring joy to people Whom fondest you were of. Soup is eaten with a spoon But not to any haunting tune. Oysters live down in the sea In zones both temp. and torrid, And when they are good they are very good indeed, And when they are bad they are horrid. My papa makes a lovely Bronx With gin so rare and old, And two of them will set you right But four will knock you cold. The boys with Polly will not frolic Because she’s eaten too much garlic. Mama said the other day, “A little goes a long, long way.”