Table Manners
Sir, —A thought, following your lines today, on table manners. It helped tremendously to be able to relate to the children, when young, a profound example of “please and thank you.” When Wilson, Bowers and Cherry-Gerrard were returning from Cape Crozier with three Emperor penguin eggs for the British Museum, they, in their tent, indescribably uncomfortable and miserable with the coldness, darkness and undernourishment, could have been excused if they had allowed the last remnants of the will to live, to drive out any vestige of ethical behaviour, but no! These dedicated men agreed, as the meagre ration of biscuit was passed around, to say “please and thank you” to the end, which they had little doubt was not far away. —Yours, etc., J.P.E. January 22, 1969.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31894, 23 January 1969, Page 10
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