Food study

Beat the yolk and seasoning with the milk and fold in the egg white, stiffly beaten. When it is brown on the bottom, place in an oven or under a gas broiler to dry out the top before folding. Since it requires some skill to make omelets and since large ones are more difficult to handle than smaller ones, it might be well here, for practice, to have one egg omelets made for each person to be served. 2. FRIED MUSH. Pack mush made of hominy or other breakfast cereal into a wet pan, until cold. Cut into slices ; if moist dip into flour, and brown on both sides in a little fat in a frying pan. 3. SYRUP. Boil half a cup of brown sugar, three tablespoons of water, and half a teaspoon of butter. When moderately thick, cool and flavor with a few drops of vanilla. It is commonly said, and surely with much truth, that it is easy to judge of a person's training by his ability to write a correct letter and his manners at table. While such manners are partly convention, in most cases there is a reason underlying the convention. For example, if chairs are close together and two people start to sit down from the space between adjacent chairs, confusion results. Therefore, convention says, sit down and get up from the left-hand side of the chair. If the chairs are placed at the table so that the front edge of the chair is in line with the hanging edge of the table cloth, there will be little if any adjustment and much noise will be avoided. Unless there are place cards with the names of guests the hostess indicates where each is to be seated. The guest of honor, if a man, is placed to the right of the hostess ; if a woman, to the right of the host. Host and hostess are seated at opposite ends of the table. If there is a waitress, the hostess enters the dining room last and sits at the end nearest the entrance door, but if there is no waitress she places herself at the opposite end in order to facilitate serving. As far as possible men and women are arranged alternately, at a formal dinner coming out in couples. A hostess shows her social skill in placing congenial people together. All stand until the hostess is ready to sit down. Silver, as explained in the directions for table setting, should be so placed that there is no difficulty in telling which article should be used at any time, but convention says the hostess should begin to eat first and anybody in doubt has only to follow her lead. A child often grasps the handle of his spoon with the back of his hand up. When he raises it to his mouth, this throws his arm up with his elbow out where it is almost certain to interfere with his neighbor. Instead, he should be instructed to hold it as he would a pen ; then it will be raised with a wrist movement and with his elbow down. The soup spoon is dipped into the soup away from the person, so that the edge which is covered by the soup will be the higher edge as the soup is eaten and there will be less tendency to drip. Soup is eaten from the side instead of from the point of the spoon, because the spoon is too large to go