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Two persons are required to serve more than six guests well, and an assistant in the pantry will be found a great convenience, if not a necessity. In households where many ser- vants are employed the luncheon would be served by the butler in afternoon livery, assisted by a footman in house livery, or by one or more maids in black gowns with white caps and aprons.
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A formal luncheon differs from a dinner but in few par- ticulars. Fruit is preferred to oysters as a first course, bouillon is served in cups, commonly with two handles, and the roast is often replaced by chops with peas or a puree of chestnuts, or by an extra entree.
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The usual stereotyped luncheon in winter begins with grape-fruit cut in halves, the pulp loosened around the edge, the seeds removed, powdered sugar put in centre, and dashed with maraschino. A half is placed before each person, some- times wreathed about with smilax on the plate, and eaten with a dessert or teaspoon. Clam broth or bouillon follows, served in cups; then lobster or fish in individual shells; an entree of
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the centerpiece but no place doilies. More latitude is allowed in the matter of napery at a luncheon than for a dinner. "A fair white cloth" is considered to be in the best taste for the latter, while at luncheon the table-cloth may be as elaborate as one may desire. The napkins are usually smaller than those used at dinner. At a young girl's luncheon wines are never served; the effervescent waters replace them, and at all women's luncheons these are increasing in popularity, and are regarded as in better taste than wines. Champagne is entirely banished.
The custom of giving favors at luncheons has been so overdone as to have been abandoned altogether. A bunch of violets, a single rose, or very occasionally a small bonbonniere is the only favor now considered to be good form. Violets are usually preferred. The name cards are simple ones, with the monogram of the hostess; but may be made to contribute to the artistic, complimentary, or amusing features of the occasion, if one pleases. On the reverse side sometimes a quotation appropriate or flattering is written.
Theoretically, artificial light at midday is not in the best taste, but no one likes to sit facing a sunny window with one's opposite neighbors turned into silhouettes, and then candle-light is becoming and the shades decorative. All of which reasons will probably conspire to exclude the daylight.
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The guests remove their wraps in an upstairs room, re- taining their hats; the hostess wears a pretty house-dress.
At our summer resorts ladies who have their own houses often give carte blanche invitations for luncheon to their men friends and encourage their women friends to drop in often. The result is usually a merry and informal meal, which rapidly ripens into intimacy. It permits irregularity of numbers and unequal distribution of the sexes. People sit where they please, and a late arrival is made welcome. They wear golf and tennis suits, and linger at the table, but take their leave shortly after leaving it, in deference to the possible after- noon engagements of the hostess, or all adjourn to the veranda, where coffee and cigars are enjoyed.
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The meal is usually a simple one; two courses and a salad, concluding with fruit, amply suffices. Iced tea, or coffee, hock or claret cup, and effervescent waters are the usual drinks.
A breakfast given as an entertainment differs from a luncheon in several particulars which people are not always careful to observe. The hour appointed should not be later than
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chicken, sweetbread, or a "volauvent; "' then filet of beef or chops with French peas or string beans. Chocolate may be here passed in cups with whipped cream on the top. The next course will be birds and lettuce with French dressing or a mayonnaise of celery. This is sometimes preceded by a "'sor- bet" or Roman punch served in very thin glasses, or a simple Starr Pianos vegetable-asparagus or artichokes. The game may be re- placed by an aspic of foie gras or tomato jelly in a ring mold, the centre filled with dressed celery. The meal concludes with ices, cakes, bonbons, and coffee, served at table or in the draw- are used ing-room. exclu-
In the summer a charming luncheon may consist of small sively in clams 'on ice, jellied bouillon, cold salmon with green mayon- over 140 naise, sweetbreads, or mushrooms on toast, broiled chicken with lettuce, strawberries or peaches, with ice cream, bonbons, and atories coffee.
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twelve or half after twelve o'clock. Artificial light should, if possible, be avoided, and the table decorations suggest dainti- ness rather than richness or elegance. Whatever is saved in other ways may be appropriately expended upon the flowers.
One of the prettiest centrepieces that I saw at a breakfast was a round Leghorn hat filled with roses. A dish holding water was set in the crown. It looked as though a garden hat had served temporarily for a basket while the roses were being gathered. Strawberries formed the first course, served in tiny flower pot, lined and surrounded by their own leaves.
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A breakfast should invariably begin with fruit, succeeded by a fish course, an entree-preferably of some concoction of eggs-one meat, a salad, and a "sweet," concluding with coffee. Sweetbread or mushrooms may replace the egg course. The meat selected is usually broiled chicken, with which the salad would be served, or salmi of duck, cutlets, or chicken a la Creole, when the salad would form a separate course, with toasted biscuits and some fine cheese. Game is not out of place at an elaborate breakfast; but as it is usually an informal repast, many courses are out of place. Ices are not served at a breakfast.
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To show that entertaining need not be costly to be en- joyable, I may cite the example of one impecunious hostess, who invited a few friends to a breakfast, which her guests remember with pleasure.
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At each place was an orange, cut transversely, the pulp loosened from the skin, as grape-fruit is prepared, and eaten with a spoon. A spray of laurel leaves with each (nearly re- sembling those of the orange) gave a suggestive touch. A course of egg croquettes followed, made of chopped hard-boiled eggs, moistened with the usual white sauce, seasoned with pars- ley and a suspicion of onion, and eaten with tomato sauce.
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Chops with paper frills and border of potatoes fried to resemble straws, succeeded the eggs. After which a fair red apple, which had been hollowed out and filled with a mayon-
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naise of celery and apple, was placed at each cover on a plate, with a lettuce leaf between; the top cut off was replaced when the apple was filled. Cake soaked in sherry, with soft custard sauce, and coffee. A large bunch of young green leaves formed the centerpiece of the table, and a few peppermints, simple cakes, and salted nuts were all its decoration.
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After a theatre party a little supper is invariably given, if it has not been preceded by a dinner. At a private house the table is set and served as for dinner or luncheon, though usually with greater simplicity. Watercress sandwiches, finger rolls lined with pate de foie gras, bonbons and cake, flowers and fruit are on the table. The usual menu is oysters on the half shell, bouillon in cups, followed by one entree-sweetbreads, chicken croquettes with peas, crab forcee or lobster a l'Ameri- caine, the last a culinary triumph-after which birds, cold or hot, with salad, concluding with an ice or coffee. Many in- dulgent hostesses allow the men their cigarettes, while the ladies remain if they all acquiesce.
A chafing-dish supper is generally a pleasant informality, and one consisting of a Welsh rarebit and ale, or "golden buck" (a rarebit with poached eggs on it), with lager beer, is usually much relished. At these informal affairs the servants are not in evidence. Everybody waits upon everybody else.
In arranging a square table for a dinner for eight persons it is well to seat two at each end and two at each side, which makes the men and women alternate properly.
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Nothing gives so festal an air and withal such refinement and grace as flowers in the center of a table, or four slender vases holding a few choice blossoms flanking a jardiniere of
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Under the table cloth, which should be of heavy damask, carefully laundered and ample enough for its four corners to almost reach the floor, a cover of felt or very heavy canton flannel should be laid. In the exact center of the table it is usual to have a centerpiece of lace, embroidered bolting cloth or linen, upon which the flowers stand.
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All elaborate folding of napkins is out of fashion. They are simply laid on the plates or at one side, folded square, with the monogram corner uppermost, and a roll or square of bread two inches thick within the folds. Put at the head of each plate, an individual salt cellar; on top of this place an indi-
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delicate ferns. Smilax, disposed about the table, is effective in decoration.
Candelabra should flank the centrepiece of flowers opposite the host and hostess and smaller candlesticks on either side, or four single ones may stand at equal distances from the flowers and from each other, with or without shades. Candles are conceded to furnish the most becoming light, but they should be sufficiently numerous to make gas or electric light un- necessary. The uneven burning of the candles may be obviated by keeping them on ice two or three hours before using, and they should be lighted long enough before dinner to test their condition. As candle shades are apt to catch fire, a pair of sugar tongs within reach will be found convenient with which to grasp them and throw them into the grate. All annoyances of the kind are obviated by the use of a porcelain candle, con- taining a real one, which is pushed by a spiral spring as it burns.
All the table paraphernalia should be placed with mathe- matical regularity. Some scheme of color is usually chosen in the decoration of the table, to which the flowers, bonbons, candle shades, and centrepiece conform, but it is not now made quite as conspicuous as a few years ago. Small dishes of sil- ver, rare porcelain, glass, silvergilt, called "compotiers," con- taining fancy cakes, bonbons, crystallized fruits, and salted nuts, are placed where they will be the most effective. Flowers and all decorations should be so disposed as not to obstruct the view across the table. Olives, radishes and other hors d'œuvres are served from the side table, and at large dinners decanters are rarely put upon the table unless their elegance is a reason for so doing.
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vidual salt spoon. Nearest the plate at the right, the dessert knife, next the meat knife, still to the right the fish knife (blades turned in), then soup spoon, and on the outside, to the right, the oyster fork. On the left, nearest the plate, dessert fork, next salad, next meat, and on the outside the fish fork, the tines turned upward. One has only to use them in suc- cession, beginning with the farthest one and "eat in," as the local Western vernacular has it. Butter is not, as a rule, served at dinner. On the right, at the head of the knives, place a tumbler freshly filled with iced water, but without ice, and near them a vase-shaped glass for sherry, a colored one, white and red or pale green, shaped like the water-goblet for white wine, a duplicate in white for claret, and, a low flaring one for champagne. Small tumblers are used for mineral water.
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The fashion of having a different set of plates for each course shows no abatement. A side table, supplied with extra knives, forks, spoons, etc., is a necessity. Upon this finger- bowls, until needed, half filled with water, each with its leaf or small blossoms.
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The platters are passed, held on the flat of the servant's hand, (if not on a silver tray), with a napkin between, a large spoon and fork in each, from which all help themselves. The servants begin alternately at the right and left of the host, and proceed in opposite directions in regular order, that the same persons be not served first and last. At a dinner of twelve covers or more, two platters in duplicate, passed simultaneously by the servants, beginning at different sides and opposite ends of the table, beginning with the hostess. Nothing is more in- elegant than for the servants to carry piles of plates in their hands and distribute them about the table, as though dealing cards. All plates should be brought and removed one by one. Upon withdrawing a soiled plate a fresh one is slipped quietly in its place, but not until all persons have finished. (There should always be a plate in front of each guest.) Neither must one plate ever be laid upon another for convenience in re-
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moval. This should be insisted upon. The plates should be cold for the salad and dessert course and thoroughly warmed for the hot dishes.
The servants must be watchful to note when fresh forks are needed, and at the time of substituting clean plates for those that have been used, they should be quietly laid in place, either by the same servant, or preferably by the assistant fol- lowing him. It is excessively bad form to have knives or forks on a plate when placing it before the person.
Empty plates and those containing individual portions are placed and removed from the right, but everything is passed to a person at his left hand. A servant should never reach across anyone in placing and removing things.
The oysters are generally in place when the company assembles; each plate, containing half a dozen oysters, with a bit of lemon, stands upon a dinner plate. The lemon should be so cut that the juice may be expressed without soiling the fingers. The oysters should be kept on ice until the moment they are served. Many persons now discard the custom of having the oysters on a bed of pulverized ice, voting it "messy," and bring in the oysters after the company is seated. In this case, and at small dinners where soup is the first course, an empty dinner plate is at each cover. These under plates are left when the soup, and the oyster plates are removed. Red pepper and brown bread sandwiches are passed with oysters. The soup is served from the pantry, the plates about half full. To expedite the service, the servants may bring two plates of soup each from the pantry and place them on a side table, but only one must be carried to the table at a time by each. In removing the soup piates, the under plates are still left, which now come into requisition for the hors d'œuvres, which gives place in turn to those for the fish. With the fish a sauce is commonly passed, and sometimes cucumbers and boiled potatoes like marbles.
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The roast or turkey is carved in the kitchen or pantry, and neatly disposed in one corner of a long platter, in another fried mushrooms, in another potatoes, in another carrots, both in the shape of marbles, and in the centre of the platter French peas, with a large spoon and fork in each, from which all help themselves.
The game follows with a salad, for which small cold plates are provided to insure its crispness. These plates are slipped unobtrusively into place as the salad is offered, and withdrawn if it is refused-not dealt about the table.
Salted almonds are passed between the courses and are convenient to bridge delays. After the game the table is cleared for the sweet course. Everything not required is re- moved on a serving tray covered with a doily (first removing the silver knives and forks), and the crumbs are brushed off.
Ices in individual forms are placed before the guests, but the larger forms are passed, followed by the cakes. The finger- bowls on a handsome plate-the choicest of the hostess's col- lection-with a doily between, containing a slice of lemon, a geranium leaf, or a few violets, are placed before the guests, and the fruit is passed, followed by the bonbons.
Coffee is served to the ladies in the drawing-room, and to the men, with cigars and cigarettes, when the ladies have withdrawn.
The host should sit at the farther end of the table, so that when the hostess enters the room she finds her place near the door. The butler or waitress stands behind her chair. When all have assembled, the gentlemen assist in seating the ladies, before they take their places. None wait for the other.
It is not customary to say "grace" at "'company" din- ners (aloud), unless there is a clergyman present, when he should be asked to offer the thanksgiving, which should be brief.
The women remove their gloves and lay them in their laps.
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The napkin is unfolded to half its amplitude and laid across the lap.
At a glance from the hostess, who must not interrupt any specially absorbing conversation, the ladies rise, leaving their napkins unfolded on the table, or letting them fall to the floor. The men also rise and remain standing until the ladies pass out, the one nearest the doorway holding the portieres aside for them. Or, the gentlemen accompany them to the drawing- room, seat them, bow and return to the dining-room and enjoy coffee and cigars. The ladies chat over their coffee. They resume their gloves or not, as they please.
A dinner should not last more than an hour and a half, and an hour or less after the men have rejoined the ladies the guests should take their leave, unless music, dancing, or some special entertainment detain them.
GOOD FORM FOR MEN.
The great majority of books dealing with social conven- tions are written by women for the benefit of women; only incidentally, if at all, is the subject presented from the viewpoint of the other sex. It is impossible to overrate the importance of Good Form to the youth who has life's battle ahead of him. Generally he leaves his Alma Mater to com- mence the competition for place in the world, with no advan- tage over his fellows save what may be derived from personal qualities, acquired or innate. His success may depend less upon his talents than upon his manners. "Knowledge may give weight," but accomplishments alone give lustre; and many more people see than weigh. Good breeding and an attractive ensemble effect the same end as a show window; they encourage relations which may lead to the discovery of more solid quali- ties. Nowadays the man is measured by his manners.
Manners, like charity should commence at home. There is no better field for practice, and none so proper, as the family circle. The young man who is not respectfully polite to his
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mother and sisters must not hope for the attainment of any considerable degree of Good Form.
It is within the power of any man of moderate means to dress well. Good taste counts for more than money in the matter. Some of the most simple facts with regard to fitness are not generally known. For instance, many are unaware that a very tall man may add a cubit to his stature with the aid of long skirts or pronounced perpendicular lines. A stout man enhances his appearance of rotundity by wearing horizontal stripes or large checks.
A man's wearing apparel may be conveniently classified as morning and evening dress, and these subdivided into formal and informal. Morning dress applies to clothing worn up to dinner time or gaslight; evening dress to that which is worn during the remainder of the day. The frock coat is of black vicuna or worsted. The waist coat may be single or double- breasted, and of the same material, of fancy cloth, or of some white goods. The black waistcoat is most appropriate for church, funerals and occasions which are characterized by a subdued atmosphere. The fancy cloth waistcoat, which should be quiet in effect, is best adapted for general winter wear, and the pique for spring and autumn, although the white waistcoat with the frock is considered quite smart for winter. The trousers are usually striped worsted, and should not be too pronounced in color or pattern. The boots should be of patent leather. Any other variety of footwear must never be seen in combination with the frock suit. A white shirt, with stand-up collar is the correct thing. The tie should be an Ascot, four-in-hand, or English square. It may be remarked en passant that the string or club tie does not go well with any double-breasted waistcoat, save in evening dress. Any headgear but the silk hat is impossible with a frock coat. Gloves and stick or umbrella are invariable accompaniments of it. The frock suit is the correct attire for weddings, afternoon calls, garden parties, early concerts, and afternoon receptions.
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