Learn Manners No One Criticizes

Don’t laugh because Dot stuffs iced cake into her mouth with her fingers. She's to be pitied!

Learn Table Manners No One Can Criticize

Don't laugh at Dot– the girl who stuffs iced cake into her mouth with her fingers. She's to be pitied. For, until she learns better manners, the people she longs to know will just ignore her. What hostess wants to take a chance on a girl who doesn't know layer cake should be eaten with a fork even at simple buffet parties?

If you invited her to dinner she’d probably drink her soup from the tip instead of from the side of her spoon. She'd put the salt for her celery on the table-cloth instead of on her plate. As for tricky foods! Dot would never know that you eat artichokes by pulling off a leaf at a time. And canapés would bewilder her! It's so easy to be correct once you know.– Santa Ana Journal, 1937

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