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301 to 305 Chamber of Commerce, TOLEDO, OHIO. UNION CENTRAL LIFE. J. P. MCAFEE, Manager.
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The Hadley Printing Co., Robert Allen, Manager.
Book and Job Work. 136 and 138 St. Clair Street.
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TWENTIETH STREET-Continued.
Miss Margaret Packer Miss Emily Teresa Packer
134 Mr. and Mrs. E. Stanley Noble Miss Mary Marjorie B. Noble
136 Mr. and Mrs Charles E. Sutton Mr. William Dransfield
215 Mr. and Mrs. James A. Haigh Miss Minnie Haigh Miss Jessie Haigh
216 Mr. and Mrs. Karl Matheis
236 Dr. and Mrs. Owen C Rees
TWENTY-FIRST STREET.
23 Mr. and Mrs Willard C. Cole Miss Esther Cole
24 Mr. and Mrs. John B. Driggs Mr. Clarence D. Driggs
26 Mr and Mrs. J. Gazzan Makenzie
27 Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Armstrong 28 Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Sweetman 30 Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Wilson
109 Mrs. A. A. Thatcher Miss Alice Thatcher Miss Mary Thatcher Mr. Addison Thatcher Mr. George Thatcher
118 Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Detwiler Miss Mary Detwiler Miss Ella Detwiler Miss Kate Detwiler Miss Martha Detwiler
120 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Bunce Miss Anna May Bunce
123 Mr. and Mrs. George K. Detwiler Miss Loreler Detwiler Mr. George D. Palmer, Jr
130 Mr. and Mr. Thomas McConkay Miss Grace M. McConkay Miss Mary A. McConkay Miss Hattie B. McConkay
131 Mr. and Mrs. Ralph G. Owen
132 Mr. and Mrs. C. Bond Lloyd
316 Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Brew
The Home Savings Bank issues letters of credit, good in India.
STOLBERG & PARKS, Cor, Summit & Adams.
TOLEDO'S LEADING FURNITURE STORE
STREETS ALPHABETICALLY. 285
TWENTY-FIRST STREET-Continued.
322 Mr. and Mrs. S. M Cline 325 Mr. and Mrs. Charler A. Peckham Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Peckham Miss M. Louis Peckham
TWENTY-SECOND STREET.
South 1427 Mrs. Charles B Greene Miss Effie E. Greene
South 1429 Mrs. L. E. Johnson Miss Leila E Johnson
South 1501 Mr. and Mrs. E. Warren Fisk
South 1509 Mr. and Mrs. William Burge Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hurlbert Ayers Mr. William Bedell Burge
South 1511 Mr. and Mrs James M. Eckels
South 1513 Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Moses
South 1521 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Bierly Mr. Clarence C. Bierly
South 1525 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Parmenter Mrs. Harvey Parmenter Miss Jessie L. Parmenter
South 1601 Mrs. Gilbert H. Morse
South 1611 Mr. and Mrs. Julius T. Frey
South 1615 Dr. and Mrs. L. K. Maxwell Mr. Samuel W. Maxwell Mr. Vernon C. Maxwell
South 1619 Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Roe Mrs Edward J. Stock
107 Mr. and Mrs. Chivington Worts
117 Mr. and Mrs. David Wallace Miss Mabel E. Wallace
126 Mr. and Mrs. Horace C. Durand Miss Ina C. Durand
141 Mr. and Mrs. A. Bentley Miss Ethel Bentley Mr. James Bentley
145 Dr and Mrs. Thomas Hubbard Miss Abigal Hubbard Mr. George Hubbard
217 Mrs. Anna Crabbs Mr. Frank W. Crabbs
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301 to 305 Chamber of Commerce, TOLEDO, OHIO.
UNION CENTRAL LIFE, J. P. MCAFEE, Manager.
Harrison
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The Home Safe Deposit and Trust Company
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THE HADLEY PRINTING CO.
ROBERT ALLEN. MGR.
Souvenirs. Phone 765.
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TWENTY-SECOND STREET-Continued. Mr. Frederick H. Young 223 Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Chase Miss Lucile Chase Mr. Walter N. Chase Mr. Arthur J. Chase
228 Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Tracy Miss Martha O. Tracy Miss Katherine Tracy Mr. Frederick D. Tracy Mr. James F. Tracy Mr. Thomas O. Tracy
332 Mr. and Mrs. William W. Cunningham Miss Daisy Cunningham Mr. Carl E Cunningham Mr. Ross Cunningham
TWENTY-THIRD STREET.
118 Mr. and Mrs, John R. Boice
124 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Boice
130 Mrs. Charles I Scott Mrs J. B. Petit Miss Johnellie Petit Mr. James Edward Richards
Vaults are the Largest in the city.
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J. P. MCAFEE, Manager, UNION CENTRAL LIFE. 301 to 305 Chamber of Commerce, TOLEDO, OHIO.
STOLBERG & PARKS, Carry a Complete Line of -FURNITURE. Even the Low Priced is Pretty.
Cor. Summit & Adams.
STREETS ALPHABETICALLY. 287
EAST SIDE.
Clark Street. 301 Mr. Arthur E. Robison
Euclid Avenue.
404 Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Hopkins Mr. F. G. Hopkins
427 Dr. and Mrs. F. P. Wilson Miss Mary Wilson Mr. Dale Wilson
507 Mr and Mrs P. McCrory Miss Sarah McCrory Mr. Frederick E. McCrory
517 Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Dotson
605 Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Hamlin Miss Gertrude L. Crim
617 Miss Marie R. Petit Miss Anna J. A. Pettit
618 Mr. and Mrs L. E. Flory
624 Mr. and Mrs. George W. Writner Miss Jessie Writner.
Fourth Street.
450 Mr. and Mrs, H. P. Latta 517 Mr and Mrs. C. M. Taylor St. Paul's Church (Episcopal), cor. Euclid-av
Main Street.
616 Capt. and Mrs. George Scheets 708 Dr. and Mrs. S. W. Beckwith 710 Mr. C. B Close
301 to 305 Chamber of Commerce, TOLEDO, OHIO. UNION CENTRAL LIFE, J. P. MCAFEE, Manager.
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The Hadley Printing Co., Robert Allen, Manager.
Wedding Invitations. Phono 765.
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Miami Street.
639 Mr. and Mrs. Stillman Brown Miss Gertrude Brown Mr. Siloam G. Brown Mr. Gates Brown
651 Mrs. Daniel A. Brown Mrs. Amelia Brown Mr. and Mrs C. E. Russell
715 Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mack Miss Ella Mack Miss Lucile Mack Mr. Luzerne W. Mack
1149 Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Mensing
1233 Dr. and Mrs. Harrison Hathaway
1335 Mrs. Mary A. Crane Miss Marion A. Hill
1343 Mr. and Mrs. Elias Fassett
1385 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Ferguson Miss Ethel J. Ferguson Miss Mabel E. Ferguson Mr. J. Easton Ferguson
1609 Mrs. Robert Barber Miss Josephine Barber Miss Clara Barber Miss Neva Barber Mr. Herbert A. Barber Mrs. A. A. Hill
2221 Miss Louise C. Crar e Miss Grace E. Crane Mr. Daniel B. Crane 2521 Miss Mamie A. Crane cor. Oregon rd. Mr. A. M. Crane Miss Fannie L. Crane
Maumee Avenue. 265 Rev. Timothy P. Mccarthy
Oak Street. 410 Mr. and Mrs. Claude L. Johnston Mr. and Mrs. George E. Regan 426 Miss Laura Riggs
Invites Inspection of its Deposit Vaults,
STOLBERG & PARKS Cor. Summit & Adams.
PRETTY FURNITURE MAKE DESIRABLE WEDDING OR BIRTHDAY PRESENTS.
STREETS ALPHABETICALLY. 289
OAK STREET-Continued.
1301 Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beeman Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beeman, Jr 1302 Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Cook
Oswald Street.
219 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Corkery Miss Mabel Corkery Mr. Stanley Corkery Mr. Thomas D. Corkery Mr. Warren D. Corkery
Parker Street.
413 Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Baker
461 Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Bartlett Mrs. Salome M. Bartlett
Platt Street.
504 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Rutherford
602 Mr. and Mrs. James Drummond, Mr. James G. Drummond
622 Mr. and Mrs William M. Godfrey ,
642 Mr. Thomas T. Davies
Rogers Street.
903 Mrs. Ella B. Norris Miss Bessie Norris Mr. Charles H. Norris
Rossford. Mr. and Mrs. Mathias R. Pepper Miss E. Priscilla Pepper
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Sixth Street.
436 Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Regan 439 Mr and Mrs. William C. Worrell Miss Alta W. Worrell 505 Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Wolf Mr. George Wolf Mr. Otto Wolf 516 Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tucker
Starr Avenue.
828 Door of Hope 1616 Little Sisters of the Poor
Utah Street. 1315 Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rouston Mr. Fredrick J. Rouston
Whittmore Street. 424 Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Booth
Williams Street. 402 Mr Herman R. Klauser
Willow Avenue.
925 Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Bement Mr and Mrs Rowland J. Tappan
Is the most secure and most convenient in Toledo.
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ETIQUETTE.
In other countries, social duties are as important as business duties, in certain classes of life. Boys are taught that no matter how distasteful ceremony is, there are times when it comes first in line of duty. The result is that these lands produce men versed, from school and home discipline in the social arts and graces, while our youths of twenty-one are, many times as a rule, hobbledehoys ashamed of having any manners at all and suffer accord- ingly. It is not half as undignified to be easily courteous, or to use the right fork at dinner, as to be blundering about, wondering what to do next. If an afternoon visitor is uncertain as to whether he is to leave his hat on the hall table or bring it into the drawing-room with him, he immedi- ately becomes embarrassed and awkward, setting his hat down, clutching it up again and occupied with the problem of bestowing it, when he enters Who has not seen a tall man circling round a lady, offering her first one arm and then the other in his dilemma as dinner is announced ? Just that little hitch makes him lurch like an elephant and for- get what he was going to say. Social affairs are much like plays : in ord r that they must go off smoothly each one must know his part.
Find out, if you are a lady, the proper side of the car- riage to take when you are driving with a gentleman ; assure yourself as to the time to take off your gloves when you go to dinner. Inform yourself on points of every-day etiquette, the noting of which makes, and the ignorance of which mars social intercourse in cities.
Never introduce a lady to a gentleman, always use the formula of presenting the gentleman to the lady and use
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discretion whom you introduce and where. Never intro- duce in church, nor street-cars, nor on the door-steps, if you happen to find somebody waiting there that you know and the person with you does not. The person performing the ceremony of introduction, which should be done sim- ply, "Mrs. or Miss B., may I introduce (or present) Mr. C." Never "make you acquainted with" nor "I want you to know Mr. C," nor should the person presenting or the presenter, under any circumstances, murmur, ' Pleased to meet you," or "Happy to know you," simply " How do you do ?"
"The little speech," for which Americans have become famous, is a speech of humbug which, it is pleasant to state is going out. It is foolish, if not surperfl us to say, 'Come again " .If you are in a fashionable set, he will not come again till you and your husband have shown some recognition of his visit, and she will not until you have returned hers. Above all things do not introduce anybody as "my friend." Don't talk about visiting "friends," or being out at a " friend's house." It is taken · for granted you visit only friends. If you can't mention names, it would be better never to refer to those visits. When a gentleman makes a call he must leave his overcoat, hat and stick in the hall. The drawing-room is no place for the hat nor stick.
CARD ETIQUETTE.
"Mrs." should precede the name on a married ladies' card, and the husband's full name should be used.
The prefix "Miss" should always be used on a young lady's card.
A caller should always send her card in by the maid and should always leave one when the lady asked for is not at home. If it is the first call of the season the lady leaves one of her own cards, and two of her husband's It is not necessary to leave the husband's card again during
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the season except after a dinner invitation or other enter- tainment.
If calling on a person stopping at a hotel, it is allow- able to write the name of the person for whom it is in- tended on the card
At afternoon receptions or teas, the lady leaves her card on entering, in the tray or on the table usually pro- vided for that purpose. If not able to attend, a card should be sent by messenger or post during the reception hours
It is an increasing custom to use infant's cards. They are quite small and bear the full baptismal name of the child, with the date of birth. The card, with one of the mother's enclosed, is forwarded to friends.
Wives leave cards for their husbands, daughters for fathers, nieces for uncles. Sons should do their own calling.
If a gentleman is in the army or navy, his title may precede his name. "Reverend " may also precede the name of a clergyman. It is in better taste in other profes- sions to indicate the title by the proper abbreviations, as "M. D.," "L. L. D.," etc.
" Mr." should always precede the name of an untitled gentleman on his card.
A gentleman should invariably call or leave a card, or cards, in person (two if the invitation was issued by the host and hostess) after a first hospitality : after every enter- tainment, whether the invitation was accepted or declined ; after a dinner ; or to offer condolence in each case within a week.
If a host or hostess is kind enough to invite you, show your appreciation by replying at once.
The custom of turning up (or down) the corners of cards is no longer followed, nor is it considered necessary for a card to be left for each member of a large family, except on most formal occasions.
It is not necessary to call again or leave cards after a tea or reception.
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In calling on a friend who is staying with people with whom you are not acquainted, always leave a card for the lady of the house. It is never proper to call on a guest without asking for the hostess.
Card to inquire after friends during illness must be left in person, and not by post. On a lady's visiting card must be written above the printed name, "To inquire" and nothing else. Those cards should be replied to by cards with "Thanks for kind inquiries" written below the owner's name. These cards are generally sent by post, as they are dispatched while the person inquired after is still an invalid, although convalescing.
An invitation to an afternoon tea, an "at home," or a church wedding, does not require a regret, but a card by post to represent you when you are unable to attend an invitation to a home wedding or reception requires a written acceptance or regret.
One does not leave cards at an evening reception.
When calling, one leaves a card whether one's hostess is home or not.
A clergyman's visiting card should be worded in this way : "Reverend Francis Brown Stevens." The address should be in the lower left hand corner.
An invitation to a clergyman and his wife should be addressed to " To The Reverend and Mrs. John Smith."
A condolence card should be sent as soon as possible, " Love and sympathy " written below the name.
MOURNING.
The correct periods for mourning as observed in Eng- land are as follows : For a husband, crepe for a year, black for a year. For a father or mother, crepe for six months, black for three. For a brother or sister, crepe for three months, black for three. For son or daughter, crepe for three, six or nine months, black for three more. For
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uncle, aunt or niece, black for two months, modified black for one.
For grandfather or grandmother, crepe for three months, black for two. For cousin, black for two months. Wives must remember that they wear mourning in the same degree for their husband's relatives as for their own.
Is mourning going out of fashion ? In what is called "smar. " society the periods for wearing are more and more abbreviated and the fabrics and trimmings are much less distinctive than they used to be.
We have all been wearing black crepon for so Jong that things have become rather mixed, and very often a costume that looks like decided mourning is simply black from choice and is worn with fawn gloves and colored ribbons.
In New York crepe is worn a great deal, and during the time of wearing it, note paper and handkerchiefs have a deep black edge. When crepe is removed they are lightened and plain black (no silk or velvet) is worn. The cap and long veil are not worn for less than one year, and for six months the dress of a widow should be of crepe cloth or Henrietta covered entirely with crepe. Dull black kid gloves are worn in first mourning.
All kinds of black fur and sealskin are worn in deep mourning
No one wearing a heavy crepe veil should go to a reception, wedding or a theater.
Black jewelery is only worn when in deep mourning
CHILDREN.
Children's parties are now almost always held at a sen- sible hour, from four to eight, permitting the little ones to be at home in bed by nine o'c'ock. They have tea, or choc- olate, or milk, at a buffet when they arrive, and at seven o'clock they all sit down to supper. There is hardly any pastry to be seen on the supper table. Its place is filled by cakes of all kinds, sliced bananas and pineapples, crystal-
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lized cherries and chopped pistachio Creams and jellies should always occupy prominent positions on the table of children's parties, and plenty of good bread and butter.
Another very favorite form of food is to be found in mixed biscuits, the sort that has sugared ornaments lavished on them in varied colors and designs. Pink sugar is always the first to disappear. Pink meringues are almost always selected in preference to the white or coffee-colored. Birth- day cakes should always have pink icing on the top, with the name of the birthday boy or girl spelt out in preserved cherries A row of edible pearls (sugar) round the edge is regarded as a very great embellishment in their eyes.
WEDDINGS.
It is required that wedding guests call upon the bride's family as well as upon her and leave cards for both.
Presents should be sent to the bride even if your acquaintance is only with the bridegroom.
At a "seated supper " the bride and bridegroom are placed at the side of the table in the center ; the family of the bride are next the bridegroom, and vice versa.
The bride's mother attends to the sending out of the 'at home " and announcement cards.
The bride's family furnish the carriages for the bridal party. The bridegroom furnishes a carriage for the clergy- man, also one that takes him and his best man to the church.
Fans are the latest gift of the bride to her bridesmaids, usually of expensive lace, pearl mounted and carried at the ceremony .
Invitations to a golden wedding are printed in gold letters. To a silver wedding in silver. Tin weddings are signals for a frolic. Invitations on tin and plenty of tin- ware for the kitchen. Wooden wedding invitations are on parchment. The twentieth anniversary is never cele- brated, it is considered very unlucky to even allude to it.
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A question has arisen how should a widow's linen and silver be marked when she is to married again.
The custom is becoming pretty general to have every- thing marked in their future husbands's name, in fact, many young ladies are adopting that style.
After a wedding, always call on the parents of the bride within a week.
LUNCHEONS.
Invitations should be sent out, as for dinner, a fort- night in advance. The menu is as like a dinner as can be, except for the joint which is now commonly omitted. Bouillon, hot or cold, in cups, preceded by caviare sand- wiches and oysters at many luncheons ; lobster cutlets, or fish, in " aspic," a heavy entree, such as fillet of beef, a sad- dle of mutton, never put on the table, of course, but in slices, just the same with vegetables ; game, with salad; an ice, pudding cheese, coffee; with more sweet meats than one could eat, and nuts and olives and radishes.
For luncheons, white wine and claret only are served ; champagne is vulgar. Coffee after luncheon, as after dinner.
"Pink" luncheon, or, indeed, any one color scheme, is passe.
The proper clothes to wear to a luncheon depends entirely upon the size of the luncheon. If one is asked to a small affair, say of four to eight women. a simple tailor- made suit with bonnet fo correspond, one's everyday dress, in fact.
If the invitation is received sometime in advance, it is a sign that the affair will be more or less formal. The correct dress in this case is a reception gown, one's best and most becoming bonnet, and a pair of pale kid gloves. Leave your wraps in the dressing room. Wear your gloves and veil into the drawing room and keep them on until you
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are seated at table. There, as the conversation commences, you remove them, and keep them in your lap.
At the end of the luncheon you may put on your veil. again or not, but always put on your gloves. When the hostess makes the sign to move is the time to put them on. New York women never stay long after a swell luncheon. They stand about the drawing room, chatting and talking, just about long enough to have the coffee served, which is brought in on a silver tray by one of the servants and handed about.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Wedding Anniversaries.
First, Paper;
Fifteenth, Crystal;
Second, Cotton;
Twentieth, China;
Third, Leather;
Twenty-fifth, Silver
Fifth, Wooden;
Thirtieth, Pearl;
Seventh, Woolen;
Fortieth, Ruby;
Tenth, Tin;
Fiftieth, Golden;
Twelfth, Silk;
Seventy fifth, Diamond
The Language of Sealing Wax.
White, Weddings;
Violet, Sympathy;
Gray, Friends;
Red, Business;
Ruby, Lovers;
Blue, Constancy;
Pale Green, Reproaches:
Green, Hope;
Yellow, Jealousy;
Black, Mourning;
Chocolate, Luncheons.
Birthday Stones for the Months.
Januay, Garnet;
July, Ruby;
February, Amythest;
August, Moonstone;
March. Bloodstone;
September, Sapphire;
April, Diamond:
October, Opal;
May, Emerald;
November, Topaz;
June, Pearl;
December, Turquoise,
The place of honor at the table is for men, at the right
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hand of the hostess, and women, the corresponding posi- tion by the host.
A napkin must be squarely folded and laying flat at each place, a row of forks at its left, oyster fork on the outside, then fork for fish, and a large and a small ordinary fork, making four, are usually arranged. At the right of the napkin are knives, a fish knife at the extreme right, a steel-bladed, large knife, and a silver-bladed knife inside, making three. A soupspoon next the napkin is all that is required in that line. It is laid squarely across the upper side of the place. Dessert and ice spoons are brought in later, and so (usually) are salad forts and desseret forks.
Butter plates must always be placed at the left.
Silver knives for cutting meat are obsolete, thank heaven ; no one knows why they were ever introduced. A small steel knife for game, always a silver knife for fish and fruit.
A small knife and fork are placed for anchovy toast, or caviare, or whatever is eaten as a relish before oysters, at a formal dinner ; but a fork will almost always be found to be sufficient. Indeed the fingers are usually employed.
Soup is taken up by the spoon turned away from the eater, and sipped (noislessly) from the side of the spoon.
Fish is taken with a silver knife like the oldtime butter- knife, and with a small fork. " A fork and a bit of bread " can be used.
Cucumbers are passed and put on the same plate as the fish. They are dressed in the French way-that is, with oil, pepper, salt and vinegar-and are never ranged in little side dishes.
An entree follows the fish ; and unless it is fillet of beef or some such unforkable food, is to be eaten with a fork alone.
The joint is always separated off the table, at a dinner party, then is put back into the semblence of a whole and passed.
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Vegetables go on the same plate, as do jellies, pickles, and other condiments.
There is no bread-and-butter plate, for a dinner, only for a luncheon because butter is not eaten at dinner
Game and salad usually follow the joint in the average dinner, but at some housed asparagus, corn and cauliflower -even peas-may be brought on separately, and as a course.
Corn may be eaten from the cob, it is generally allowed, but it makes a mess and, for that reason, formal dinners are usually without it. It is brought in in a napkin when served on a platter
Asparagus is supposed to be eaten with the fingers; and that makes another rather untidy business.
Game is hot, and salad cold, but the two are often put on one plate.
Cheese should come last on the menu.
Pudding, hot or cold (rarely pie), for a dinner ; in very hot weather, only ices
A tea plate with a doylie laid upon it-then a glass plate, containing a finger-bowl a quarter full of water with a rose leaf, or a bit of lemon floating upon it. Remove the finger bowl and eat the ice from the glass plate. That leaves the other plate for fruit.
Pudding, pie and ices are not ' dessert." Fruit is " dessert."
Seeds of grapes should be removed with a silver knife, or else they should be swallowed.
Pears, peaches and oranges should be seeded or stoned in the same manner
Nothing should be spat out of the mouth into the plate, and the fingers should be used as little as possible.
The exclusive use of the fork-which became so rid c- ulous at one time, extending almost to soup-has gone by. It is in order now to eat ice cream and berries with a spoon, also pudding and sauces.
Never eat peas with a spoon.
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The inevitable centerpiece piled with fruit, the flowers in tall vases, the candelabra on particular spots, have passed away, Small dishes are more used and set about with apparent, though not real, carelessness.
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