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Show EvEmmY i l Place your knife and fork on your ' plate vhen you are through with them. Questions answered by Alicia Hoyt. (Miss Hoyt will answer personally all letters pertaining- to matters of etiquette, addressed to her in care of this paper, if enclosing a two-cent stamp.) A. Z. I don't wonder that Miss M "froze up" on the occasion you write of. You had met her only a few minutes min-utes earlier, and to confine your con versation to personalities, even though flattering, was an unwarranted unwarrant-ed liberty, for which she rightly punished pun-ished you. However much you admired ad-mired her, your acquaintance had not reached the advanced stage where you might tell her so without offense. CYNIC. I do not agree with you. As you say, no harm can reach one who has died by telling the truth about him; but if tho truth is uncomplimentary, uncomplimen-tary, what good does it do? It injures in-jures those who cared for him, and benefits no one. The old rule, handed hand-ed down to us from the Romans, of speaking nothing but good of the dead, Is a sound one to follow; and the living liv-ing will think better of you for sticking stick-ing to it. : oo |