Critical Eyes Judge Manners

Kit isn't getting to first base socially. How could she with those atrocious table manners? Notice the stranglehold she has on her knife and fork.

Don't Blunder Unconsciously

Pretty as a picture! Full of pep! Yet Kit isn't getting to first base socially. How could she with those atrocious table manners? Notice the stranglehold she has on her knife and fork.

When she's reduced her steak to bits, she spears a piece, packs peas and potatoes on the back of her fork, starts the whole top-heavy load on a perilous journey to her mouth. And her elbows, raised like wings, strike terror to the ribs of fellow diners.

Acceptable table manners are inconspicuous ones. Well-bred people hold knife and fork lightly, the forefinger extending downward along he handles.

They cut one small piece of meat at a time, never pile several vegetables on the fork at once, keep elbows as nearly as possible at sides while eating. – Santa Ana Journal, 1937

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