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ART OF ETIQUETTE: HOW TO DISTINGUISH BUTLER
FROM GUEST,
The following is quoted from the McNaught Syndicate Will Rogers, who hails from somewhere. Out West has announced that: "Somebody must have scoo nie out in public. I think it was Emily Post, for she has sent me a book "on etiquette, that she has written her
sell.
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any
Food
FOOD QUESTION.
One of the Wissacres in the Mother of "The food Parliaments has had a brain wavo. question" he SAYS Hwill be sonte for the next ten years. Anybody could have told him that! The food question is always mente to some people! There are ancounted, thousanda--- heaven help them!who can't get enough There are shoals of people who for years have had to put up with food
they wouldn't hare looked at, once upon a time. And some people, who can get food, wholesome food, can't get 非
benefit out of it: Why? Perhaps THAÏ the unnatural excitements of the last faw
hava played baroc with Fears
digestive our systems,
After all, the digestive system isn't cast iron. Really, it is of a delicate, complex charsetur, all too able to become a little deranged. "Now, you wouldn't think a person perhaps through some apparently triding cause. could live under fairly civilised conditions Many a man or woman will feet well to-day. Cas I imagined I was doing) and bo se Then, to-morrow, up goes the temperatore dumb as not to have at least one of these few degrees, and that same man or woman forms of etiquette right Well, when I is soon conscions of lost appetite and decreased go through reading it, I felt like I had vigometimes we can't even be sure of the esase, been heathen all my life. But after I got to noticing other people I met, 1 bat war
..
It has 700 pages in it. You wouldn't think there was that much etiquette, would you? Well, I hadn't read far when I found that I was wrong on almost every line of the whole book.
we are quite sure that we feel "a Bitle of didn't feel so bad. Some of tham didn't the mark. Now that kind of thing isn't very know much more about it than I dh),
Take, for instance, being introducd/or Port unless it continued, but if it does:
or introducing some one; that is the first thing in the book. She says that the pro. mincner of the party being introducet determines the sound at the voice.
CORRECT INFLECTION.
Now the inflection that you use on asking any one if they are there is the same infection that you are to use on
good-bye to healthy sard happiness.
In placa of radiant health, and the feeling that i it good to be alive, what do we get? Why! Just the opposite! A miserable existence life isn't and the horrible feeling that perhap worth living after all. Our food-well! Wa don't relish it, and it gives us pain, when we eat it. Then we have flatulence, perhaps, or biliousness, or constipation, with constant beadaches, until we feel "played out," And | all b
cause our
introducing Mr. Gothis, if he is the more tone and strengthgestive system has lost
prominent of the two. Then for the other person, you use the "Is it mining? inflection.
aeriene Symp. which is the very thing
Now some people, when they feel ont of sorts, say they're going to be right down ill; but folk say they are going to get well "You see, a fellow has to know
a whole agains
by taking the well-tried remedy. lot more than you think he does before ether he can properly introduce people to each other. First, he has to be up on his Dua and Bradstrast to tell which of the two is the more prominent," Second he has to be an elocutionist to know just where to bestow the inflection,
to bauish all such troubles, quickly and surely. This world-famous stomach and liver tonio acts directly upon the organs of digea tion, and tones, strengthens and stimulates them to healthy activity.
In this simple, consequently, the evil way, it ensures perfect digestion. affects of indigestion are entirely rumoved. Appetite, returns, but there is no pain-no Tease
ase of falnean-after we have eaten.
We
"Well, I studied on that introduction Chapter till I thought I had it down pat. So I finally got a chance to try it ou My wife had invited a few friends as for dinner, and as she hadn't finished begin to digest our food easily and naturally, cooking it before they came, I had to and to secure from our food the nourish meet and introduce them to each other.ment it contains the nourishment essential
to health and strength.
Well, I studied for half an hour be fore they came, trying to figure out which one was the most prominent so I could give her the Are son there ? * infection, was hard to figure out, because any one of them couldn't be very prominant and be coming to our bouse for dinner. So I thought, well, I will just give them both the "Is it raining? inflection,
RESULTS OF ATUDY.
"Then I happened to remember that the husband of one of them had just bought a drug store, so I figured that I better give her the benefit of the Aro you there? inflection, for if prohibition stays in effect, it's only a matter of days till her husband will be prominent. -
"When the first one came, I was all right; I didn't have to introduce her, to any one. But as I opened the duar to let her in two of our dogs and four fath care în
This Emily Post wrote 200-pages, on etiquette, but bos a line of what to do in an emergency to remove dogs and cata and still be Nom Challant
The stond Lady arrived just as this dog and cat ponad of ours was emptying- She was the new prescription store own- ers' wife, and was to get the Are you there? inflection. I will call her Smith- She don't want it to get out that she knows
"Well, had studied that book thoroughly, but the animals had upset Cle. So I said. Mr. Smith. Are you there? I want you to meet Mrs. Jonës, Is it raining??
But that didn's discourage me. Just. the other day I heard what I had always considered up to then a well-behaved woman introduce one gentleman Friend to another, and she said, “ Allow`ine to present.
Now anybody that's, ever read the first Eve lines in the book, knows that the word present is never used only on formal ocensions. You should always say, May I introduce. There was woman who, look at her, you would never have thought could possibly be so rude and uncultured as to have made a mistake like, that
It just spoiled her foc me, I don't care how many nico things she may do in the future, she just don't belong.
PLACE FOR 'LADIES.
Rule #. Chapter 5-No gentleman du- der any circumstances chews gum in public. I had been chewing gum before. some of the best families in this country.. But from now on it is out. I am going to live according to the book.
* Chapter : 6-Gentlemen should not walk along the, strest with their cane or |wick wtriking the picket fever. Such h should be curbed in the nursery. Now the rufe didn't hit me so hard, for I am not up and I don't cuṛty a cane yes, and farthinote, there are un picket fences in California Outside of eating with a there no rule in the book that
knife,
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you able to as much criticism as the following:
Whether in a private car, a taxi or a carriage a lady must never ait on a gentle. man's left, because according to Euro- peso etiquette a lady. "on the left' is no lady"
TEHT OF A BENTLEMAN,
Then it sys the owner of the car should always occupy the right-hand side of the Tear Death No matter how many pay- ments he has to mike on it, that is con- aidered his sea en dat e
Chapter 7 is given over entirely to The Opera What to wear, she to appland-it tells-everything but how to enjoy the thing.
Chapter 12 tells how the butler should dress." You don't know what a relief it was to me to fuid that news. I never had obe hu
do I shall know, want to Costume him in
The book may: “At six o'clock the butler puta on his dress suit. The Butler' suit differs from that of a gentleman by having no braid on his trousers, door
"If you sen pouple walking around look- ing down at your trouser, in the future, you will know they are looking to see if the braid is left off."
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