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Manners Matter, Etiquette Coach SaysBy Michael Kernaa suppose we re at a dinner — she fondled a formal everyone is looking for the same tilings. There’splace setting on the table before her — “now this is not a bit of difference from one region to another, the salad fork, and you older girls will want to Black people, too — thousands of them bring theirThe Washington PostWASHINGTON — “Good manners are sweeping the country,” says Marjabelie Young Stewart, who runs something called White Gloves and Party Manners Inc. in Kewanee, III., and who claims credit for teaching the Nixon girls how to curtsy and cut their meat.The former model, a longtime Washington resident who founded the area’s first modeling agency, was in town this week to coach the women who will be teaching courses in children’s etiquette at five Hecht Company department stores beginning March 20,“Now,” Sshe said, addressing the teachers as though they were the five-to-I2-year-old girls who will take the course, “we’ve learned our gloveman-ship, we know how to put on and remove our white gloves. We’ve done the curtsy and the pivot. Nownotice, for when you start building your own silver, what it's shaped like...Marjabelle Stewart got into the manners business when some Washington embassy people with whom she hobnobbed asked if her four-year-old daughter, Jackie, was American, meaning thather manners were good enough to be European.Stung, the native Iowan organized a course and later, with Ann Buehwald, wrote three books on etiquette for boys and girls. Today, people come to Kewanee from all over to learn the course and spread it among the department stores of the world.x “In the last 10 years there’s been a big swing back to these things.“ she said, “ballroom dancing, cotillions, grace at meals, lots of nostalgic traditions — it's wonderful. And do you knowchildren in. In fact, there's no class thing anymore, anywhere; there’s only the well mannered and the ill-mannered.’'Food HygieneHYDE PARK, N.Y. (UPI) — A $40,000 federal grant to The Culinary Institute of America here will enable the chefs’ training school to establish a laboratory for studying proper hygienic maintenance of work areas where food is prepared.The grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare also will be used to develop additional sanitary methods of handling ’food.
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Mansfield News Journal
Mansfield, Ohio, US
Fri, Feb 27, 1976
Page 12
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