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This is one of the pleasing duties of the housekeeper; and the manner which she performs it increases or diminishes much of the comfort attending a well-furnished table.

 

Some persons will urge every dish upon their guests with an annoying importunity, while others will neglect even the ordinary civilities, and complacently declare that they never learned how to wait upon people, and, if they can't help themselves, they may fare badly.

 

Others, again, will help you without any reference to your peculiar tastes. For instance, there are those who will deluge your plate with gravy, when you may particularly object to it; or will give you well done meat, cut in thick slices, when your palate delights in very thin slices of delicious rare meat, and vice versa.

 

And still others will help you so abundantly that the overflowing condition of your plate destroys your appetite, while a small quantity would have increased it.

 

A certain amount of tact and quiet attention to your guests and children is greatly essential to the successful performance of the rôle of mistress or master of table ceremonies.

 

One should attend to the needs and comforts of each person, and exercise some care and judgment in supplying their wants. These are the first requisites of table etiquette, and they should be accomplished without bustle, or leaving the table; for there is nothing more detrimental to table etiquette than to see two or three children, or the host or hostess, start up from the table to obtain this or that article.

 

The greatest care should be taken to see that everything that is required for the repast is placed upon the table before sitting down; but if anything is needed, or dishes are to be removed for the dessert at dinner (which is always essential for a well-ordered table), if a servant is not in attendance, ask one of the family to obtain it for you, but never allow two children to run after it, or leave the table yourself.

 

 

 

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