Avoid mixing your food on your plate.
11) Use a fork when eating vegetables and salad,--and ice-cream, if an
ice-cream fork is provided.
12) If cutting the lettuce leaves of your salad is necessary, cut with
your fork.
13) Make the least possible noise in chewing, and none at all in taking
food from a spoon. Sometimes, in eating crisp toast, for example, it is
very difficult to avoid a crunching sound, but eat slowly, taking very
small mouthfuls, and you can avoid noise.
14) Don't drink from a cup while it holds a spoon. When not using your
teaspoon, let it lie on the saucer. Do not drink from your saucer. Stir
quietly, and lay your spoon in your saucer at once.
15) At the table, keep your hands in your lap when you are not eating;
toying with articles on the table is bad form.
16) Between courses, avoid lounging back in your chair; keep your spine
straight, your body poised a little forward, and your mind occupied with
the conversation which you are helping to make pleasant.
17) Eat a little less of everything than you might. Shrink from the
slightest appearance of greediness.
18) Use knives, forks, and spoons in the order you find them. When in
doubt, observe your hostess.
19) After dipping the tips of your fingers into your finger bowl, dry
them lightly on your napkin.
20) When the hostess rises, boys, rise and draw back the chair of the
girl or the woman next you as she rises, and let her precede you from
the room.
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