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This thing game on table matters.

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Betty our hostess is having a few of her
friends to her home for a birthday party.

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She has been to any number
of little parties like this

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but this is the first time she's
given a party all by herself.

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Like everyone else she thinks that
her any good is perhaps not perfect

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but good enough so that there
are no glaring errors.

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She is proud of her table arrangement

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and think she deserves a
word of congratulations.

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But the housekeeper must tell
Betty she noticed a few errors.

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On napkin is out of place the butter knife
block on the butter dish not next to the

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meat and a lot of glass small matters but
they're important when they show father

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or not your habits of
etiquette are correct.

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See if you notice right away when someone
is incorrect or is definitely correct.

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That is confidence is shaken a bit
and she has doubts over correctness.

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Should she appreciated her guests into the
room he directing them to their places

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properly. Should body
have used place cards.

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The young man who is trying to relate to
assist Betty with her chair is Bob it is

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his birthday. That is being
celebrated and his hopes.

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To feel uneasy and just
act as he always does.

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Notice not one of his way
of opening his napkin

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and butter in his belt could be all right.

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Bernie and Helen seem quite certain
of the way they open their napkins

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and place them and I
have told in their laps.

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They seem to be really nice but
then everyone is more of a.

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These Now that the party
is really started.

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The main thing is that they should
enjoy each other's company.

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And Betty and Bob aren't worrying
about their mistakes for a moment

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but in the back of their minds they realize
they will have to pay more attention to

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their manners. They know

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that the object of correct etiquette is
not to make a life formal and dollars

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but to make it fully enjoyable.

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There are reasons for each activity good
as in a man's assisting a lady with her

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chair

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or the order with which people are.

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Bob is hungry and the soup looks good.

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He is using his company manners

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but as we see he is doing at
least three things wrong.

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Not at the soup a service that he
sees that the crackers are passed.

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Floyd passes the crackers to Dorothy
and before he helps himself.

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Should he have helped
himself first two are not.

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Bob is eating before the
others one about that.

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Apparently the guests are waiting for Betty
to pick up her spoon before they began.

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Dorothy to start and they all are.

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But naturally the guests were given no
indication of having noticed any error on

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Bob's part since that in itself would be
impolite. As the release dish is passed.

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Bob takes a handful and puts
them on a service plate

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and diet he goes to a
soup in the same old way.

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And then Bob notices that the others
of place their relation differently

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and changes them from one plate to
the other knowing there is a reason

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but what is it

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about having made the change. Bob is glad.

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To see Betty has noticed that he corrected
himself. All as well again with a party.

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No one's enjoyment is being interrupted
with any problems for the moment

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that enough time is running into
some problems of her own things

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that she hadn't thought of until now

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that Elbel on the table isn't one of her
problems because she isn't even aware of

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it

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but she is aware of the olive is a problem
is there a correct way of eating an olive.

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Should you just pop it
into your mouth and eat it

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but then how do you take out
the pit with your fingers.

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And when you have the bit
where should you play it.

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Flight seems to have confidence
in his way but also to my fingers

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that he thinks he might try a flight away.

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Then he hopes that she doesn't
look as awkward as she feels.

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Now our hostess feels
better about the olives.

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But right away she sees something else.

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Dorothy is breaking her
celery before taking a bite.

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Has always been just celery you ate
it in whatever length you found it is

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that easier to handle in shorter lengths
and as it looks like a smaller bike

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when you dip it in the salt

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and then buy off a portion
of burning in hell

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and don't seem to be
concerned with any problems.

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Bernie eats around him simply enjoys it

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and he seems certain of him selfe Helen
is even tipping her soup late for a last

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stop cannot be correct.

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Certainly her manners aren't interfering
with their enjoyment of the party.

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As host Bob is expected to
serve the meat course at all.

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His father does the serving it
looks perfectly simple and it is.

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But if you were in Bob's place would you
know positively want to do which serving

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implements should he use.

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Should he just go ahead as best he can.

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Dorothy is looking away
so as not to notice.

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Bob still isn't sure what to do
but he can't hesitate for a.

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That amount seems too much a lady is not
flattered by being offered a portion the

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size

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that might appeal to a hungry lumberjack.

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That he is worried for Bob.

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But after all he is trying.

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Everyone learns by experience
even when mistakes are made.

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And one isn't at all sure a
penny thing that he is doing.

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Bob wonders at the portions he
is serving are now too small.

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Should he give a large portion to the
man and small ones to the to the ladies

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or should he serve about this amount

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and let the guests return their
plates if they wish a second helping.

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Now Betty is about to serve the
salad some new questions are right.

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Then she use the implements for
serving the salad correctly

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and want to cipher the portions of
salad the. Is he offering too little.

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If you're getting a proper assortment.

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As Betty passes the plate to cheese
say for whom the plate is intended.

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Bernie and Helen act as though everything
were going smoothly with them.

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And so really it is in spite of Betty's
worries there are no mishaps Floyd

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and Dorothy are enjoying themselves.

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Bob you know this is not starting first
this time he waits with the others for

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Betty to start here is the kind
of fun that they all thought of

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when the party was planned out
having a good meal together

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and plainly enjoying one
another's company the areas

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that have been made haven't
taken the fun out of the party

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and we must remember to give
them credit for all the things

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that have been done correctly for every
mistake made a dozen things have been done

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correctly. Bob is feeling more confident
of himself he seems to remember

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that it is correct to use his
knife for cutting lettuce

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or tomato if they are served in pieces
that are too big for a prop. By.

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What do you think is the
wrong. Are the right. Way.

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But the person with confidence isn't
necessarily the person who is correct.

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Up until this minute.
Betty has been confident

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that a person should butter
his vegetables with his knife

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and either Betty sees Floyd butter in
his with his fork. She is uncertain.

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She wishes she did not. Definitely.

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It seems safer to follow Floyd to example
if he is correct then she will be to.

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Bob a swing from one extreme to another
one minute he is uneasy the next over

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confident.

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Now he is forgetting
even his company manners

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and is acting as they usually does in
telling one of his favorite starts.

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Dorothy and Floyd giving their
attention when he's looking at them

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but at the same time they manage to
continue eating while their food is warm.

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Bob isn't letting the story
interfere with his eating either.

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So let's try counting the
number of obvious blunders.

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The waving of his knife and fork
about. Talking with food in his mouth.

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Monopolizing the conversation.
But it is an exciting story.

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It's about a trip up in the
mountains and then all.

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This isn't the kind of an ending
to the story that Bob had in mind

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but it is quicker

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and maybe better at least to stop
Bob from making any more mistakes.

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But he too has discovered that she had
forgotten a couple of items of behavior.

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She is thinking that perhaps she

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and Bob both need to be embarrassed
a bit to make the men met

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that their manners aren't as good as they
should be Bob may be thinking the same

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thing.

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Because he certainly looks as if he has
decided to make a lot of changes the others

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of course say nothing.

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But he decides that the first thing
for her to do is to regain her poets.

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Just act as though no
errors had. Been made.

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But she will be more observing of her
own manners and those of others too.

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Many feel safe in her way of eating a roll

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and jelly.

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Is there anything in what
Bernie and Helen are doing

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that would get your attention right away.

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Was there anything in the way he
helped himself to more jelly.

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How about the way he holds
his knife and fork.

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Or the way he cuts his meat.

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And takes it to his mouth with his
left hand. When you are eating meat.

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Do you take them into your mouth with a
fork in your right hand or your left.

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Is there a question of correctness here.
Helen is also using her left hand.

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Betty holes with a fork in her
left hand column cutting the meat.

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And then passes a fork to a right
hand for placing it in her mouth.

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This is exactly.

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She has noticed that the British

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and Continental people usually
use their left hand but now

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that she is beginning to
take her manner seriously.

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She wonders if there is a
matter of correctness involved

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or whether both ways are equally
correct one way American.

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The other european that he wishes
he were a certain of that point

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and she is of how her
knife should be placed.

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Bob has never heard of zigzag or
continental ways of eating meat.

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But he is on a watch out
for such things now

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and as soon as he know this
is what Betty is doing.

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He is ready to fall over
example whether he is right

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or on he uses his left hand all right.
Even if he does take an oversized bite.

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Bob congratulate himself on trying a
new way to embody have a lot to learn.

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At least there are no further mishaps as
a meat course is finished on the table

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cleared for dessert. Bob is happy
now. And is proud of himself.

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Formal parties like this
are really enjoyable

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when one isn't afraid of doing the wrong
thing. Bob has reached the point where he.

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Falesá senses intentions are
good and he is watching him self

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that all is well.

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If you just try to figure out what is the
reason for each rule of etiquette you

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find that the rules are sensible.

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After all correct manners are simply the
way one person shows as consideration for

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another in other words proper manners are
your way of showing common politeness.

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As far as Bob is concerned this
is the best birthday it ever had.

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And to top it off a big birthday
cake that Betty had made for him.

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He really appreciates this.

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For the cake is a symbol like
the whole dinner of friendship.

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Either a delicious symbol
of the regard that Betty

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and her friends hold for
Bob particularly Betty.

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The lighting of the birthday cake
with candles is an old custom

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and so the blowing out of the candles.

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But do you suppose the placing of the
candles at the side is a modern touch of

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avoiding possible germs being blown on the
cake. Serving the meat course upset the.

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Apparently serving the cake
has its difficulties to.

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Our hostess is I'm certain
that she should be helping

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but she worried about leaving the table
to bring in the cake in the first place.

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That he wondered if the. Serving
should be left to the housekeeper.

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What would you say. There is no
denying that Bob needs help.

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He is having trouble with the serving
implements again you think you might be able

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to figure out from the shape and the
size of the plates which to use.

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Cutting and serving your own birthday
cake would seem to be a pleasure.

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But could you actually do this
any more gracefully than Bob is.

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That he'd help may not be
as great as she thinks.

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Whatever reaching in front of Bob

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and upon her placing the dessert
forks one of these correct.

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Bob accompanies Betty to her place assisting
her with a chair before resuming his

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service.

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Is at least trying to change is habits.

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And you notice. He forgot
his napkin and sat on it.

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He is serving smoothly now.

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And is not distracting his
friends with his difficulties.

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They are free again to chat as they
wish and once again the party is fun.

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Bob and Betty met more problems

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and I expected as we are
seeing people like Betty

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and Bob who want to entertain their
friends have good times together.

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Forget that poor manners can really
interfere with the fun of the party.

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There is no fun in being
worried. I'm sure. Or L.S.D.

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It is much simpler in the long
run to face your problems.

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Find out what the correct answer
is and then when you act in a way

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that you know for certain is correct your
mind is perfectly free of course all this

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is an accomplished just by wishing.

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There are still habits that have first
to be detected and then broken.

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This is hard. The new
habits have to be formed.

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But a little study of any will help
greatly and lessons are all practical.

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Once you a form correct
habits in your manners.

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You will find that they give you a sense
of confidence that is a reward in itself.

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Our party is ending. But
let's hope that for you.

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It is in another sense just a beginning.

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As you think of that and Bob and their
problems. Compare your own matters.

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Don't forget that it is by their manners

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that polite people the world around show
their consideration for one another

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identity party is just one way of
enjoying company of your friends.

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I good meal and good company real enjoyment.
That's what a dinner party is Bush.