Teen Etiquette for 1929

There are people so terribly rude 

That they really ought to be sued,

For with jaws wide apart 

In a hurry they start 

Munching and crunching their food. 

— M. B.

1. Nothing less than your own funeral excuses lateness to lunch.

2. When seating a lady do not shove her into her soup.

3. If you have been graduated from the bib class, do not tuck your napkin under your chine, or into your vest.

4. Using a toothpick is never permissible in public. If you must use a pick try your talents on a rock pile.

5. Should it be necessary to remark that the lunch table is not a dressing table? It seems to be.

6. Remember that the lunch table is not an Open Forum and omit quarrels and personal remarks from the conversation.–From Mind Your Manners, East High School Denver, 1929

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