CXXIX.

It is usual to commence with soup, which never refuse; if you do not eat it, you can toy with it until it is followed by fish; of either of which never take more than once.

CXXX.

When all are seated, send a plate of soup to every one. Do not ask any one if they will be helped, as every one takes it, of course.

From: A Hand-Book of Etiquette for Gentlemen by An American Gentleman. New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1854; posted by Bill.

The Home in the Valley, by Emilie F. Carlén, translated from the original Swedish by Elbert Perce.

Emilie Flygare-Carlén (1807-1892) was one of the most widely read Swedish authors of the 19th century. This is one of her lesser-known works, and the first in Project Gutenberg.

Elbert Perce was a translator, author, and inventor of Perce’s Magnetic Globe.

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