Show GOOD TASTE A TODAY Y JEMIL EMILY P-EMILY tr r POST World Worlds Foremost Authority on Q Emily post 1 Cutting Wedding Cake Calls Call for or Real Skill D T TEAR EAR EAR 1 Mrs Post I was at a very miniature wedding reception recently In fact there were only ten persons present But Bat It was one ono of tho the loveliest wedding after-wedding parties parties parties par par- ties I have ever known It was late afternoon and almost dark the dining table was set with a lace cloth and candelabra there was a small brides bride's cake ornamented with tho the wedding couples couple's first names and a bride and groom figurine seton seton set seton on top and there was champagne to drink the traditional toasts Unlike all other weddings at which I have been at this one I sat close enough so that I 1 could watch the wedding cake being cut and I never before before before be be- fore realized realize that this could be such sucha a task The bride pierced the cake with the point of the blade but when she tried to bring the tho side of the bla blade e down through the cake the slice broke into many pieces One of the guests took the knife then but her luck was just about the same I have wondered since the wc weeding ding whether there was any right way to cut a wedding cake or orIs orIs oris Is it as ns in this case just a matter of chance Answer Of course you dont don't tell me whether the cake was not very fresh or perhaps the knife knite very dulL In any case the best way v to cut wedding cake is to spear it first and with the knife knie in this same point down position continue to stab the slice all the way across II It after the first stab is made the knife e blade is brought down as though it were a lever the piece invariably I crumbles even though the blade is very sharp C t |