Show ON SOCIA L book cautions against eating peas with a knife one chapter of volume Is devoted to gentle art of lying amer icons are to profit ground rules rulea given jandon Lon donIts its all clear now any one apparently can take down the blue blua ribbon in tho the social success class in london all that seems weary to ehla result ta is ta to study tho the ground rules just as the golf aspirant ponders over the book of instructions or the person ambitious to annex prizes in bridge whist circles studies the cautions lons as to returning a partners leads tho the way to the society goal ling has been swept of obstacles ostensibly by the volume entitled manners and rules of at good society which has luk been issued in a revised edition that IR in guaranteed to bo be up tip to the ul minute this bouto book to 21 24 carat man liers attempts to tell the eager reader everything from how haw to be born up to how to meander along the path of life from tho the cradle to the grave bravo in all seriousness tor for tho the englishman takes everything that life affords most seriously us a rule it la is set lawn that peas should be eaten with u lork that la ground rule no 1 I it would seem therefore that the artist who can successfully consume these flighty vegetables by balancing win them upon a knife insist be counted down and out even batore toe the contest begins when oysters aro are eaten in buckingham palace this atila rule should be adhered to rigidly I 1 the shell should bo be steadied on tho the plate with the fingers angers of 0 the left hand the tha oysters should not bo be cut but eaten whole with A dinner fork very many ladles indies dp do not like 1110 them whilst others refuse them tharo under the impression that it ts Is more inore ladylike cot to eat them with reference to this latter chars it has been affirmed by the average american who has wrestled with eng lish oysters oya tera which taste like so BO many chunks of sulphur in comparison witti with the succulent american bivalve that the refusal to eat cat them has dea de 4 ignatee good judgment rather than any desire to appear niora more ladylike TOO the social aspirant mile should give careful attention ao w handling the choose cheese course when eating cheese so the tha guide book advises small morsels of the cheese should bo be placed with the Imi feon small emall parcels of bread and the toy tow conveyed to the tha mouth with the thumb and finger tho the of bend bead b end being the morsel to hold bold as cheepo should no noibe taken with the tha fingers and should not bo ba oaten eaten off the point of the knife this evidently takes much practice its as the morsel or of cheese has an embarrassing barr assing habit of tumbling off the varcel parcel of bread in the critical periods of its voyage until the entrant can bo be sure of a score of about five times to ID six it la is inferred that the dobir boora of society will bo be closed to him golier ather rules which must bo be learned b by v heart oc according cording trl to this form chart are in eating a a knife and fork should bo be used and tho the point should bo be cut oft off and eaten with the tha I 1 lc l e c I 1 I 1 I 1 all AH mado made dither such na as quen alles rissoles ris soles and patties should be eaten with a fork only cucumber to la eaten oft the dinner plate of course the knife seems to tare fare badly as a vehicle of coave conveyance yance but well unless exper cx pertness t Is obtained in its handling one Is liable to cut himself with such an implement anyhow not at home Is the formula that should be expressive of a desire of not wishing to seo see certain visitors there Is extended explanation that this message when conveyed to a caller c iler by bya a servant is la not intended to imply an untruth but to signify that for this reason or that the person called upon does not desire to seo see the visitor As ali it would be inconvenient to explain in detail the whys ghys and There wherefores fores of this decision the formula of not at homo home la Is hu an all auff sufficing icing explanation in itself callers may have views of their own upon this matter now that it has been thus exposed to fo public view out hut the guide book to etiquette does not consider that point when certain embarrassing s stuat lons arise at din ner parties here 18 is the way out of the difficulty tho the leg of a chicken pheasant duck or wild duck should never be given to a guest save on those unfortunate occasions when there bre are more guests present than there Is meat from breasts and wings to give them under the circumstances the carver Is reduced to the necessity or of falling failing back upon the legs of the birds but in this case only the upper part of the thigh should be given |