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.




DUTY TO YOURSELF

_This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man._

--Shakespeare.