Show chopsticks CHOP STICKS ARE NOW PASSE chinese methods method of eating affected by european an and d american influences fancy yourself a guest tor for the first I 1 time at a chinese dinner in front of you as you sent scat yourself on your backless chair are a small email plate a spoon for soups and a pair of chopsticks chop sticks of the intricacies of the manipulation of the latter nothing need here be said it Is a matter of practice each course Is brought on in a large dish and placed in the center of the table the service then Is simple each person serves jelm himself if and the service Is direct you will and so will everybody else nt at that table put your sticks into the dish in the center convey food to your mouth insert the sticks into your mouth as far as you choose and return to the center dish for more nathaniel in world outlook by the time euch each guest has baa had three helpings hellings hel pings it will require skillful maneuver maneuvering lug to get a piece that lias has not been touched over by sticks that have made at least two trips to at least one other persons mouth the sanitary consequences are arc obvious As the chain Is as strong as its weakest ednk so the health of that company Is as good as that of its sickest guest and if you have been brought up under the tutelage of occidental doctors and have an uncomfortable n hie knowledge of germs your mind dwells uncomfortably as you eat on the condition of your fellow guests if by chance your vis als a vis als remarks in passing that he has a bad cold your bun 1 ger may be appeased quite suddenly little by little however this Is being changed today in the homes of many upper class chinese who have been educated in europe or america or have come into contact with foreign influences the system of individual dishes and individual service Is cora com lug ing more and more into inta ue se |