Show TO BE READ BEFORE MEALS DONT find fault and pick about your food DONT talk with your mouth filled with food DONT commence eating as soon as you arc seated DONT soil the tablecloth table cloth with bones parings etc i DONT laugh loudly or talk boisterously at the table DONT detail all the slanders you can think of at the table DONT take bones up in your fingers to eat the meat from them i DONT call attention to any little mistake which may have occurred DONT make yourself and your own affairs the chief topic of conversation DONT take another mouthful while any of the previous one remains in the mouth DONT reach across the table for any thing but wait until it is passed to you or DONT put your elbows on the table nor lounge about if not able to sit erect ask to be excused DONT frown or look cross at the table it hurts your own digestion as well as that of those eating with you |