Table Manners

• Do not play with the table utensils or crumble the bread.
• Do not put your elbows on the table, or sit too far back, or lounge
• Do not talk loud or boisterously
• Be cheerful in conduct or conversation
• Never, if possible, cough or sneeze at the table.
• Never tilt back your chair while at the table, or at any other time.
• Do not talk when the mouth is full
• Never make a noise while eating
• Do not open the mouth while chewing, but keep the lips closed. It is not necessary to show people how you 
  masticate your food.
  
  
  • Never indicate that you notice anything unpleasant in the food.
  • Do not break your bread into the soup, nor mix with gravy. It is bad taste to mix food on the plate.
  • Never leave the table before the rest of the family or guests, without asking the host or hostess to excuse you.
  • Eat soup with the side of the spoon, without noise.
  • The fork is used to convey the food to the mouth, except when a spoon is necessary for liquids.
  • Raw oysters are eaten with a fork.
  • If you wish to be served with more tea or coffee, place your spoon in your saucer.
  • Tea or coffee should never be poured into the saucer to cool, but sipped from the cup.
  • If a dish is presented to you, serve yourself first and then pass it on.
  • Never allow butter, soup or other food to remain on your whiskers
  • Never wear gloves at the table, unless your hands are for some special reason unfit to be seen.
  • Never, when serving others, overload the plate nor force upon them delicacies which they decline.
    
    
    • Never make a great display when removing hair, insects or other disagreeable things from your food. Place them quietly under the edge of your plate.
    • Eat Cheese with a fork, not a knife
    • Ask a servant in a low tone for what you want
    • Break your bread, do not cut it.
    • Eat fruit with silver knives and forks
    • If you prefer, take up asparagus with the fingers. Olives and artichokes are always so eaten
    • If a course is set before you that you do not wish, do not touch it.
    • It is not your business to reprove the waiter for improper conduct; that belongs to your host.
    • A gentleman must help a lady whom he has escorted to the table, to all she wishes; but it is improper for him to offer to help other ladies who have escorts
    • Use a napkin only for your mouth. Never use it for your nose, face or forehead.
    • It is very rude to pick your teeth at the table. If it becomes necessary to do so, hold your napkin over your mouth.

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