RECIPES FOR HOME ECONOMICS CLASSES. 19

tion of dishes that admit of choice. In the left-hand service all dishes are
placed and removed from the left, with the exception of beverages.

Select the method preferred in your locality and follow carefully so as to
avoid confusion.

Rules for Serving without a Maid.

1. Warm all dishes used for hot foods and chill all dishes used for cold
foods.

2. Fill water-tumblers three-quarters full, just before guests sit down.
Refill the glasses when needed.

3. Place butter on butter-plates just before guests are seated. Replenish
when necessary.

4. Cut the bread just before serving, so that it will not dry out. Hot breads
_ should be covered with a clean folded napkin or linen square to keep them hot.

5. Have all dishes for each course ready for serving.

6. Teach boys as well as girls to wait on the table correctly and to take
their turn at serving, so that mother is relieved of that duty. Mother is the
hostess and her place is at the table.

7. The hostess assigns each guest to his or her chair at the table. The lady
guest of honour is placed at the right of the host, the gentleman guest of
honour at the right of the hostess. A guest remains standing at the back of
her chair until the hostess is seated and then sits down from the left-hand side
ef her chair.

8. Serve the hostess or the lady guest of honour first and the others in
order of sitting.

9. In clearing the table remove the food first; then remove the soiled
plates, beginning with the hostess or the lady guest of honour. Salts and
peppers are removed last, on a small tray.

10. Remove everything pertaining to one course first before serving the next.

11. Use a folded napkin or small tray to crumb the table, if crumbing is
desired.

12. Never reach in front of a guest.

13. If waiting on table rise quietly, leaving napkin partially folded at the
left-hand side of cover.

14. In serving afternoon tea, pass the cup and saucer so that handle is ,

facing guest. The teaspoon should be placed on the right-hand side of the
cup parallel to the handle.

Common Rules of Table Etiquette.

1. Stress personal neatness and cleanliness. :

2. Sit erect with feet on the floor and elbows away from the table.

3. Eat slowly and quietly.

4. Do not play with utensils on the table.

5. Drink quietly from the side of the spoon, never from the tip. In filling
the spoon move it away from you.

6. Spoons when not in use should not be left in cups.

7. Handle a drinking-glass near the base.

8. Do not break crackers or bread into the soup.

9. Do not spread a whole slice of bread at one time; break off a small
portion and butter it.