Bad Manners Show Poor Breeding

      

Letty is wrecking her chance to get into the smart crowd she admires with all of her etiquette blunders!

Bad Manners at Table Betray Poor Breeding

Here's Letty—wrecking her chance to get into the smart crowd she admires. Etiquette blunders — such as spreading jam over a whole slice of bread— betray her lack of breeding. She doesn’t know that well-bred people break off, butter and spread with jam, one morsel at a time. 

She smothers her fish in tartar sauce. The deft way is to dab a little sauce with the fork on each bite of fish. She spoons up all her bouillon, not knowing it’s proper to drink it straight from the cup, after sipping with a spoon to see if it’s cool enough. Avoid these telltale blunders. — Santa Ana Journal, 1936

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