table. If it is necessary turn your face from the table or hold your hand or napkin before it. The same when you sneeze or cough.
37. — Do not form the habit of being dainty or choice, or of imagining you cannot eat this or that. Many are forced to eat abroad what they could not eat at home.
38. — It is bad form to look too carefully at the food put upon your plate, or worse yet, to smell it. If you should find a hair or anything else in your food, put it away quietly that others may not be disgusted.
39. — As often as something is put upon your plate, acknowledge it by a nod of the head.
40. — Do not gnaw bones with your teeth, neither make a noise trying to knock the marrow out of them.
41. — It is not proper to replace in the dish what is already on your plate.
42. — When you reach across the table for something, be careful not to dip your sleeve in the dishes or upset a glass.
43. — At the table do not speak until you are asked, but if you have learned something desirable at church or school, or if you think of a passage of Scripture relevant to the subject, you may tell it; but if others discuss something good, listen attentively.
44. — When you drink, you must have no food in your mouth, and must incline your head politely before you drink.
45. — It is very bad form: (1) To drink such
