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Show Everyday Etiquette'; If a maid opens the door, she receives re-ceives the visitor's card on a small tray. No well trained servant vill ever take a visitor's card in her fingers. (Miss Hoyt will answer in this column all questions on matters of etiquette addressed to her in care of I this paper. If a person answer is desired de-sired enclose postage stamp.) Housewife: In the most correct table service, a tray Is not used, excepting ex-cepting when the maid is passing two or more small articles, such as sugar bowl and cream pitcher or oil and vinegar cruite. Instead of a tray, a folded napkin rests on the palm of the left hand; and each dish that is passed is carried on this, and held in JH place by the other hand. In removing dishes from the table after a course is finished no dish should ever be set on another. After the large dishes IH have been removed, the tray again IH comes into use, for collecting tho jJ small dishes. The tray itself should always be a small one. Freshman: 'Your teacher is right, IH it is of the utmost importance that you jH cultivate correct forms of speech whllo J you are young; otherwise you will ac- IH quire habits that you will be ashamed IH of later in life, an'd that you cannot easily overcome. Do not say 'expect' when you mean "suppose," nor "funny" IH when you mean "singular." Bad gram- jH mer and colloquialisms are sometimes very amusing; but they really are in bad taste. |