Let us take a perfectly simple family dinner: First course, soup; second course, roast and (two) or (three) vegetables; third course, salad or dessert; fourth course, coffee; and begin to train her in this way:
See that the canton flannel undercloth is perfectly smooth on the table.
Over this place the tablecloth with the crease going exactly down the middle.
Make sure that whatever glass, silver, china, knives, etc., is to be used on the table is bright.
Put a dinner plate for each person at even distances apart from one another.
To the right of each plate place as many knives as you need with their sharp edges turned toward the plate, then next to them the soup spoon with the hollow part of the bowl of the spoon turned up.
Put the napkin at the right of the soup spoon, folded over neatly once, as it would take up too much room square, and lay on it exactly in the middle a piece of bread cut about three inches long by one and a half thick and two inches wide, or else a roll.
Place a tumbler at the point of the knives.
At the left of each plate lay as many forks as are needed for the meal, with their prongs turned upward and placed in the order in which they are to be used, the fork for the first course being on the outside and farthest from the plate.
Exactly in the center of the table put your plant.