Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-03 | Page 13 | Etiquette

I Etiquette I ISan San Francisco Chronicle Since CatherIne Catherine the Great devised h her hr r ten commandments com commandments corn com for social conduct at the Russian imperial imperial impe imperial impe- impe rial court some sonic years have passed yet they might stand as an adequate formula for good maners manners manners man- man ners ers In modern society The rules brought to light by soviet workmen dismantling rooms in the fa famous famous famous fa- fa winter palace are 1 Leave your our rank as well vell as your our hat and especially your sword 2 Leave your right to precedence your oUr pride and similar feeling outside the door 3 3 Be gay but do not spoil anything do not break nor gnaw anything 4 Sit stand tand talk tall as you will without reference to o anybody 5 Talk Tall moderately mOderate and not very loudly so as not to make the ears and heads of others ache 6 G. Argue without anger and without excitement 7 Neither sigh nor yawn nor make anybody dull duB uli or heavy 8 In all Innocent games whatever one proposes let ct all Join 9 Eat whatever is sweet and savory savor but drink with moderation so that each may mar find his l legs gs upon pon leaving the room 10 Tell no tales out of school whatever goes In n at one ear must go out at the other before leavIng leaving leav- leav ing ng the room Perhaps It is not very surprising that these regulations regulations regu- regu lations should fit our OUt own times as well wel as Catherines Cather- Cather nes ines Etiquette changes with passing time but good manners remain much the same and if It there theres Is s a lamentable violation of some o of oj Catherines Catherine's rules ules today there probably was the the same even when her Iron hon hand was In readiness to smite the offender