Foods and home making

a. Keep in mind the foods that are to be served for breakfast. Before the family is seated at the table, have on the dining table, on the kitchen table, or in the warming oven, all the dishes needed in serving the breakfast. b. In serving the breakfast, you will make all the necessary trips from the dining room to the kitchen. Let your mother and other members of the family remain seated at the table. c. After the family are seated at the table, make as few trips as pos- sible from the dining room to the kitchen. Serving a Family Breakfast 125 d. On each trip to the kitchen, both going and returning, carry something. e. Keep the water glasses filled during the meal. 2. Copy the following and take it to your teacher : a. I served breakfast mornings during the past week. (Fill in the number ) b. All dishes needed for serving J were I on the dining table, in the [ were not J warming oven, or on the kitchen table before the family were seated. c. After being seated at the table, I made trips from (Fill in the number) the dining room to the kitchen. d. Each trip made to the kitchen I j carfied 1 something out ( did not carry J and ( brought 1 southing back. I did not bring J e. I ( kePt 1 tbe water glasses filled without being reminded ( did not keep J of filling them. Signed CHAPTER XII GOOD MANNERS AT THE DINING TABLE Can you answer these questions ? If not, look for the answers as you study this chapter. 1. With what fingers should you hold your fork? 2. How should you butter bread at the dining table? 3. With what piece of silver should you put butter on a hot potato? 4. After using a knife, how should you place it on your plate? 5. Should you fold your napkin at the end of a meal? 6. What is the purpose of a bread and butter plate? 7. When you are not stirring your cocoa or other beverage, where should you place the spoon ? Why ? 8. If you have peeled a potato at the table, where should you place the skin ? 9. How should you fill your soup spoon? Should you fill it full? Why? 10. When you pass your plate for a second serving, where should you place your knife and fork? Why are table manners important ? A certain young woman proved to be a very good student in college. She talked in an interesting way. She was friendly to her classmates. These qualities made her popular among her college friends. One of the young men in her class invited her to go to a school picnic. At the picnic supper, rolls were passed. The girl stuck her fork into a roll to remove it from the plate. In cutting a piece of cold meat, she gripped her fork as if it were a “ weapon.” She smacked her lips when eating. The young man had been taught that because we usually eat in the presence of other people, we owe it to our associates to learn when and how to use a fork. The young girl’s table manners disgusted her escort. He over- 126 Good Manners at the Dining Table 127 looked her many fine qualities because she had failed to learn some of the niceties of table conduct.