Excerpt from The Etiquette and Service of the Table For every age and for every condition, good manners pro vide helpful equipment. To the young man or the young woman, a knowledge of correct usage gives self - possession and charm. True courtesy is exhibited in simple, natural, sincere manners. Conventional rules are not arbitrary; they have grown up little by little during hundreds of years, just as the common law of our courts has grown. These rules will change but it does not follow that we may underrate or ignore them. Their underlying principle is consideration for others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.