Bad Table Manners Hold You Back

Don’t, Dora, unless you want always to be known as a “One-Date Girl” - pile food on your fork, pat it down with your knife. Use a knife for cutting only; take food with your fork, a little at a time. 

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"Why am I always stuck with such ill-bred people?" wonder Prue, Dora and Jack. Better think less about others’ errors, you three; find out your own! Don't plunge after your falling spoon retriever-fashion, Jack, unless it's in some one's way. Wait for a fresh one. 

Don’t, Dora, unless you want always to be known as a “One-Date Girl” - pile food on your fork, pat it down with your knife. Use a knife for cutting only; take food with your fork, a little at a time. 

If you want to belong, Prue, don’t smack your salt cellar over your hostess’ well-seasoned food. Season so inconspicuously that no one thinks you’re criticizing your fare.

***Avoid telltale blunders, learn the fine points of table manners from our 32-page booklet. Etiquette of informal and formal dinners, restaurants, clubs, dining-cars. Be at ease in any circle. Send 10c for your copy of Good Table Manners to Santa Ana Journal, Home Service. Be sure to write plainly your name, address, and the name of booklet. – Santa Ana Journal, 1937

***Etiquipedia has included the initial added blurb from 1937, offering a booklet for 10 cents, simply for historical accuracy. This offer (and newspaper) is no longer available.

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