2650. Do not take two plates of the same kind of soup, and never tip up the plate.
2651. When regular courses are served, the next dish is fish. If silver or wide-pronged forks are used, eat with the fork in the right hand—the knife is unnecessary.
2652. If dishes are carved by the servants, they must be taken to a sideboard from the proper position on the table, as they are required.
2653. Take whatever is given you if you intend to eat it; do not offer it to your neighbor, and begin at once to eat. The stiff formality of waiting till, as it were, all have a fair start, is vulgar in the extreme.
2654. Attend to the wants of the lady who sits next to you, but do not watch her plate or use any offensive vulgarism.