Show CUSTOMS AND FASHIONS considered by A new cori con a pandect ponde tit opposed to doin abey with the table I 1 knife mr editor it is ii only by cot con stanlly gilan fly reading your little paper that we fally realize re alize the greaff ool i ii t i capa capable ble of doing and even bj we do not get any thaia like the amount of good to be obtained by bv a availing ourselves of the opportunity of dropping you a line 0 ortho pow now and then Alt although bough t I 1 adnot profess to be a writer I 1 seize set 46 this his making makim V in an 1 attempt arid and handing banding it over to 3 ou 40 coyour ir your decision as to its place I 1 whether in your columns or in the t wabe wate basket stok afi C ook around me and discover t the li e V tows of our country some old a and a d some dow some good go od and so not so good among custod custons cus tonu 11 wc 1 hear ear some of ticul anent mentioned 0 led aa fashions ash ions and the ques lues lions agrenot does a dress become m i D I 1 dress expensive do 1 ilist l Ili like kt t but bul the questions and answer ansbe e are ae generally as follows hat i the faill faa hion ion so and so is all the go gol now No waiter listening to all this I 1 wk ask myself in Is elf the question who issued 1 I the the edict for these fashions had tle they Y any more knowledge than dhave Is it because some rich per ign gon started to wear a certain attire and other ric 1 persons f followed their example and the poor ones run in debt anfrid and did liken likewise ise while abile poorer ones got an imitation and finally the poorest got go t a second hand imitation but the saying is almost true you might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion As I 1 said before some of these fashions are good yes many of them hem are very gd good od they are C with common sense anil and within our reach they are neat and tidy warm to the body and comfortable but some of them are very inconvenient and would soon die it if not supported by the highly estee medby themselves people of the country now mr editor will your many baders pardon me if I 1 mention one last fast becoming popular and itself us one that is cerow ding upon inconvenient and untidy I 1 both to look fit at and to try to follow pardon shill not know or no pardon they whom to baildon pa par don ildon I 1 will venture it is the use of table cutlery we have for our convenience nice ly arranged plates elegant dishes for all kinds of victuals from the in salt dish to the large deep all appropriately well aup soup plate designed and useful our cutlery which we will consider to be knives forks and spoons yes they art are useful every one well designed D and to the casual practicably indispensable but we find our aristocrats those we mention as being thought a great of will tell us it is not fabbio fashionable to eat with a knife yes you have all seen them with one liand in the lap like a lazy man abou arou around nd a thresh inor mariliny wilh tn ian tn while the others was fiddling away at a crust of bread in a vain attempt t 0 sever beever it and it reminds one who will stop to think of a person with false teeth trying to crack a nut when they have forgotten the upper set arid and left them at home on the bureau but the bread crust poor thing it might be neatly cut and lifted to the mouth in nice square pieces just the size to suit the operator instead of being mangled and squeezed up between tines thies in a way that would make a person not accustomed to the fashions lea leave ve thinking e the victuals looked like they had bad passed through the first stage r of tion think of it al all I 1 ye who are not entirely carried away by tile the fashions of the day how does alot a lot of chicken bones look after they b ave bee ti gone one over by the one hand arran arrange go ment better have two forks and make the fashion a lit little tle more practicable I 1 know the disapproval of many readers but I 1 only have one argument in favor of the fork and that is it consumes time and gives the stomach time to get in its work of digestion before it is loaded down now candidly can call you not see that the hie knife is a useful tool then why discard discardi it tas as a thing C of the past for my own good I 1 hope who persist in punishing bing 0 themselves by the use of this fashion NN ill remain in ill the small minority for I 1 do not like to be in an odd shee sheep p why dontae act consistently very Respect respectfully fally why dont |