46 - Sunday, June'22, 1986 - North Shore News

GENTLE READERS FILL iN
janners takes a holiday —

ON SUCH A nice day, it occurs to Miss Manners how nice

it would be to lie back in the harnmock and let others work.

She will therefore present you
with answers, rather than ques-
tions, that have been supplied by
lovely and gentle readers, and then
go get herself something nice with
a straw in it.

These letters Miss Manners
never quite knew what to do with
before, because her only contribu-
tion would be to comment, with
genuine enthusiasm, ‘‘How inter-
esting,” or ‘‘How True.”’ .

the juice in one hand, and our
overcoats in the other. I never stay
long after the juice — I suspect
they might start turning off the
lights."

e “I learned limousine etiquette
as a young boy, the hard way —
from my great-uncle’s driver, a
robustly cantankerous old party
who saw my constant need to go
everywhere as a major threat to a
largely undemanding job.

“According to him, the owner's
‘seat? was the right-hand side of

- the rear seat, and no one else ever

sat there. The practical purpose
was to give the owner an
unobstructed view from which to
instruct the driver, and also be able
to control the window, radio, étc.,
from the side panel. ‘Even if the
owner had sent the car for a guest,
this seat remained unoccupied,
unless the number of guests picked

...up in the owner’s absence réquired

by Judith
- Martin

» She knows that'no matter how
-indolently. she behaves,:she is odd-
ly safe from the charge of being
lazy. Columnists are always asked,
-“Surely you must make up those
letters?”’ -a query which assumes
that the columnist is 1) unethical,
’ and 2) too stupid to allow others to
share her workload.
_ Here then, in the way of summer
reading (and relaxation), is a
sampling of reader contributions: :
© “The French, God bless ’ém,

guests who won’t go. home. ‘After
the usual multi-course. dinner, the:
coffee, cigars, mints ‘and ‘cognac,
and after. a’ decent ‘conversational
pause, a servant will magically ap-

pear bearing a tray of glasses fi lied .

with orange juice. -
. “This; on the formal dinner. cir-
cuit, has become the accepted ‘go -

home’ signal. { have even been to a.
dinner where the maid arrived. with

the seat to be used, or, if the
owner insisted, due to age, infirmi-
ty or attire (voluminous ball gown)
of the guest.

“Passengers, including the
owner, always alighted from the
curb side. The guest always got in

-and exited first. A reasonably fit

woman guest was expected to have
the physical powers and ‘courtesy

to move a few inches over since she -

entered the rear compartment,
whether her host was male or fe-
male.’’

® “You have been writing about
separating one’s personal business
frora one’s office business affairs.
Today on the bus, I was reading
Saint Augustine’s Confessions. He
mentions "his friend . Alypuis’s
resisting the temptation of having
his books copied for him at special

, fates available to government of-.
: ficers.””
have an answer for the ‘problem of:

®“Lord Sandwich of England
has been credited with the sand-
wich, because. when playing at
cards, he .wouldn’t stop to eat-at a

_dining table, and placed a slice of-
- beef between two slices of bread.

But the Haggada, the manual tell-

- ing one how to conduct a Seder at

Passover, reveals that Reb Hillel
-placed horseradish between two
pieces of matzo’ to recall the bit-

first sandwich? Should I ask the
deli to give me a corned beef hillel
on rye?"

**tAccording to Robert K.
Massie’s ‘Peter the Great: His Life
and World,’ no matter how many
guests the Russian czar might be
entertaining, there were never

glad to hear of regional traditions
for christening a house, since there
is no such national tradition.
Although ‘christening’ would not
be the proper terms, there is a
widespread Jewish custom of con-
secrating and dedicating a house
within 30 days of moving in:

Hanuka ha Bayit, beginning with
the affixing of the mezuza, a small
case containing verses from the
Torah handwritten on parchment,
to the door posts of the house.””
Thank you, Gentle Readers.
Miss Manners feels refreshed
enough now to have a little nap.

more than 16 places set at Peter’s
table, which were filled at random
by those who sat down first. Once
he and the empress had taken their
chairs, he said, ‘Gentlemen, please
take your places as far as the table
will hold, The rest will go home
and dine with their wives.’ So
much for noblesse oblige.”

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