Manners Mean More Than Just Use Of Right Knife & Fork

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 6, 6 March 1950, Page 8

Manners Mean More Than Just Use Of Right Knife & Fork

Manners go far beyond the use of the right knife and fork. Someone once described good manners as nothing more involved than simple decent consideration of the rights of the other fellow, according to an overseas writer. Common errors in everyday behaviour, as the writer sees them are:—Elderly experts, who know that their methods is the right one because they have been doing it that way for 30 years or who refuse to listen to your opinion because “you may change your mind when you are older.” Public lovers, who indulge in an unrestricted display of their emotions in front of other people, and who seem to become particularly afflicted at the sight of sofas, armchairs or friends’ drawing-rooms. Universal squabblers, who expose the fragments of their private lives in public and who embarrass their friends and relatives by endeavouring to make them take sides in husband and wife quarrels. Restaurant decorators, who set out their paint, powder, lipstick—and even mascara—on the table, and set about doing a repair and repaint job which requires the privacy of the bathroom or boudoir.