Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 68
reat many things that sweet chil-dren are now expected to know withoutbeing told. They were to eat their broth witha spoon; they were not to lean on the table, 1900.] CHILDREN AND COURTESY FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO. 55 not to put their knives in their mouths or their living in the finest palaces and… … MEN AND A BOY WAITING AT A ROYAL BANQUET. field-laborers, who, it is explained, have such anappetite they dont care how they hack theirfood ; they were to have clean plates and knivesfor their cheese, which seems no more than rea-sonable. They were not, another writer says, tothrow meat bones under…
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