CHILDREN AT TABLE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 46, 17 January 1913, Page 7

CHILDREN AT TABLE.

♦ The question whether a little girl of nine had been well brought up was argued solemnly in the Paris law courts on the evidence of sheriff's officers who had been set to watch her manners at meals. The little girl, Mile, Giselo, is the daughter of a Paris doctor. He and his wife separated 18 months ago, and the mother, who was given the custody of the child, has since married again. The father petitions to have the child given into his (tare on the ground that she is being badly brought up. The officer appointed by the father reported that ii/' sat at the next table at Dieppe. The little girl leaned her elbows on the table, laughed ostentationsly, spoke Iftudly, and made herself remarked by her language and attitude. When Iher father reproached her she only laughed or made faces at him. But the officer for tho other side found that at a Bois de Boulogne restaurant Mile Bisele's mannlers were irreproachable except that she sometimes took up her bread and bit it instead of breaking it with her fingers, that she helped herself to the salad with her fingers, and occasionally forgot to wipe her mouth after drinking. She "handled her knife and fork properly, sat up well at table, never raised her voice louder than a little lady ought to do, and always answered her mother with a smile. When finger-bowls were brought Mile Gisele showed her good breeding by moistening'lher lips and the tips of her fingers and drying them with her table napkin."