 Think, too, of a rule prescribing the expression of the countenance and topics of conversation ! The following instructions are given in regard to the deportment at table : " When fairly seated in the right place, spread your napkin in your lap to protect...  The young lady's friend, by a lady [E.W. Farrar]. - Page 207by Eliza Ware Farrar - 1837 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mrs. John Farrar - Etiquette - 1836 - 582 pages
...you may not sit down before the rest, and have to rise again. When fairly seated in the right place, spread your napkin in your lap, to protect your dress...to some other dish; so take the soup, and sip a few spoonfuls, if you do no more. Where the old fashion of challenging ladies to take wine prevails, it... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - Bibliography - 1837 - 522 pages
...instructions are given in regard to the deportment at table : " When fairly seated in the right place, spread your napkin in your lap to protect your dress...to some other dish; so take the soup, and sip a few spoonfuls, if you do no more. Where the old fashion of challenging ladies to take wine prevails, it... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 522 pages
...instructions are given in regard to the deportment at table : " When fairly seated in the right place, spread your napkin in your lap to protect your dress...off your gloves, and put them in your lap under the napkw[}] If soup is helped first, take some, whether you like it or not ; because, if you do not, you... | |
 | 1837 - 524 pages
...instructions are given in regard to the deportment at table : " When fairly seated in the right place, spread your napkin in your lap to protect your dress from accident ; lake off your gloves, and put them in your lap under the napkin [!] If soup is helped first, take... | |
 | Mrs. John Farrar - Etiquette - 1849 - 402 pages
...you may not sit down before the rest, and have to rise again. When fairly' seated in the right place, spread your napkin in your lap, to protect your dress...unemployed, or else the regular progress of things is1 disturbed, to help you to some other dish ; so take the soup, and sip a few spoonfuls, if you do... | |
 | Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons - Manners and customs - 1914 - 280 pages
...bamboo tube out of the common cup, he is liable to be knifed.11 There was a time when "challenged" *"If soup is helped first, take some, whether you like it or not; ... sip a few spoonfuls, if you do no more." (Farrar, Mrs. John, The Young Lady's Friend, p. 343. New... | |
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