11) Use a fork when eating vegetables and salad,—and ice-cream, if an ice-cream fork is provided.
12) If cutting the lettuce leaves of your salad is necessary, cut with your fork.
13) Make the least possible noise in chewing, and none at all in taking food from a spoon. Sometimes, in eating crisp toast, for example, it is very difficult to avoid a crunching sound, but eat slowly, taking very small mouthfuls, and you can avoid noise.
14) Don't drink from a cup while it holds a spoon. When not using your teaspoon, let it lie on the saucer. Do not drink from your saucer. Stir quietly, and lay your spoon in your saucer at once.
15) At the table, keep your hands in your lap when you are not eating; toying with articles on the table is bad form.
16) Between courses, avoid lounging back in your chair; keep your spine straight, your body poised a little forward, and your mind occupied with the conversation which you are helping to make pleasant.
17) Eat a little less of everything than you might. Shrink from the slightest appearance of greediness.
18) Use knives, forks, and spoons in the order you find them. When in doubt, observe your hostess.
19) After dipping the tips of your fingers into your finger bowl, dry them lightly on your napkin.
20) When the hostess rises, boys, rise and draw back the chair of the girl or the woman next you as she rises, and let her precede you from the room.