C2 - Sunday, February 3, 1985 - North Shore News

CONTEMPORARY OR PASSE

Table standards stil

grew up in a large family that entertained

D= MISS MANNERS — As. one who

frequently and observed standards of table
settings ‘and serving recognized as correct at the
_ time, I have begun to wonder if those standards are

now, passe.

miss

manners

~ by Judith Martin

* Asa guest in the homes of

; loving and generous friends, :
it has been disconcerting to .

_ me to observe that these stan-
dards are not being followed. -

“It seems that the members of

‘today’s smaller r families have

demn: -buffet ‘service, which is
all. very, ‘useful when there are.

Servants. Formal service,
hich means that each guest

‘make friends easily, but: I

would like a few. Can you telt
me what to do?

GENTLE READER —
Miss Manners’ supposes that

‘ if you had it in mind to run

an advertisement saying,
"38-year-old non-smoker,
non-drinker, nevertheless not
in the best of health, wishes

cannot find some way, within
whatever limitations health
creates, to be useful. Miss
Manners suggests you inquire
around until you find a large
civic or philanthropic project
that is suitable to your

” capacities,

The advantages this has
over the more direct method
of finding friends are that
once you plunge into work,

mal dinners. I would like

your opinion,

GENTLE READER —
Straws are wonderful things
when you are:

1, Hospitalized.

you will be too busy to think | 4

about whatever prevents you
from making friends; you
will be more attractive to
others than all those dreary
people who are thinking of
their loneliness, because you
will be shining with purpose
and good will; and the other

‘ people you meet doing this

will be, as they say in those
advertisements, ‘‘same.’’ ~

DEAR MISS MANNERS
—~ My brother disapproves of

straws. I use them only. when .

I have a snack, not with for-

YEAR END

to meet same who jis also -§

slim, gourmet cook, indepen- .

dent, intelligent, with good
sense of humor, fond of old
movies and. walks. in the
woods, .for discreet, kinky

. afternoons,"” you would not
~ be coming around to her for
~ advice.

Her. suggested method for
meeting people is a much
pokier one, but: it actually

_Seems to work better. :

- It isto. find a'way°to be
kind to others, and allow the
rest to happen as a_ by-
product.

There is no one who ¢an-

not ‘find’ someone less -for-’
. .tunate ‘than himself, or-who

“HOLIDAY DRESSES

|, SWEATERS ;

“BLOUSES

- SUMP. SUITS -
PANTS.

JEWELLERY.

2. So much in fove that
sharing an ice cream soda
seems more desirable than
drinking a whole soda
yourself.

3. Having the whole soda
yourself, :

acknowledged?

4. Served a drink with so
much fruit and ice in it that
tipping the glass would be
asking for it, Fight in the
nose,’

You are right that they are

not used at formal dinners.

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