I ftent witlf a friend to dinner at one of the ;great L<jlidotv';hotels patronised almost exclusively by Americans, and lie could not possibly understand the, custom which seemed to 1 b'd prevalent of cutting up tho meat on ■tho plato into small .piques and then laying the knife aside and the viand by pecking at it with a fork. This form of table etiquette is.entirely American, and 110 other Kuropean »atiVm"has adopted it. I have . often wondered where in America it originated.—"Town Country," Newport,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 320, 6 October 1908, Page 4
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