Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-22 | Page 11 | Barring of Finger Bowls

BARRING OF FINGER BOWLS BOWL When a member of of the royal family comes to dinner it Is a point o t of etiquette i W rd rl tI as all our readers know to I provide I II It none but t the I illustrious st guest with h a finger bowl I at the end of the banquet ut The Theother other diners must get on some somehow ow with without wih- wih out that convenience The fhe reason is a curious one In early erly Georgian days one ore never knew who was loyal every other man might be a Jacobite in his secret heart Now It I was a piece of Jacobite ritual whenever whenever the toa t of The King was over drunk any n water secretly that t to happened pass the to f goblet be b by the This was supposed sUPPoSEd to convert convert con con- vert the toast Into that of ot Te The King Over te Water Vater the exiled Stuart at Rome of St St. On this becoming known the court insisted that there should be b no water within reach of any London guest gest and News the prohibition still sti holds