The Lesson.
Suppose you should see at any table a young lady, very pretty and very nicely dressed, a perfect stranger to you, and she should say to the servant, in quite a loud tone of voice, “Hurry, and bring me my dinner.” What would you think of her, Henry?
“I should think she had not learned to be polite.”
Suppose she should eat very rapidly, putting the food to her mouth with a knife, what would you think of her, Kate?
“I should think she knew very little about good manners.”
And if she should take the choicest of everything on the table for herself?
“I should say she was very selfish.”
How have you formed these opinions of the young lady?
“From her table manners.”