1.  All informal daytime occasions. 2.  Traveling. 3.  The coat of a blue suit with white flannel or duck trousers for a
   lunch, or to church, in the country.
4.  A blue or black sack suit will do in place of a cutaway at a wedding, but not if you are the groom or an usher.

=COUNTRY CLOTHES=

1. Only in the country.

To wear odd tweed coats and flannel trousers in town is not only inappropriate, but bad taste.

CHAPTER XXXV

THE KINDERGARTEN OF ETIQUETTE

In the houses of the well-to-do where the nursery is in charge of a woman of refinement who is competent to teach little children proper behavior, they are never allowed to come to table in the dining-room until they have learned at least the elements of good manners.  But whether in a big house of this description, or in a small house where perhaps the mother alone must be the teacher, children can scarcely be too young to be taught the rudiments of etiquette, nor can the teaching be too patiently or too conscientiously carried out.

Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out if hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.  Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

=ELEMENTARY TABLE MANNERS=

Since a very little child can not hold a spoon properly, and as neatness is the first requisite in table-manners, it should be allowed to hold its spoon as it might take hold of a bar in front of it, back of the hand up, thumb closed over fist.  The pusher (a small flat piece of silver at right angles to a handle) is held in the same way, in the left hand.  Also in the first eating lessons, a baby must be allowed to put a spoon in its mouth, pointed end foremost.  Its first lessons must be to take small mouthfuls, to eat very slowly, to spill nothing, to keep the mouth shut while chewing and not smear its face over.  In drinking, a child should use both hands to hold a mug or glass until its hand is big enough so it can easily hold a glass in one.  When it can eat without spilling anything or smearing its lips, and drink without making grease “moons” on its mug or tumbler (by always wiping its mouth before drinking), it may be allowed to come to table in the dining-room as a treat, for Sunday lunch or breakfast.  Or if it has been taught by its mother at table, she can relax her attention somewhat from its progress.  Girls are usually daintier and more easily taught than boys, but most children will behave badly at table if left to their own devices.  Even though they may commit no serious offenses, such as making a mess of their food or themselves, or talking with their mouths full, all children love to crumb bread, flop this way and that in their chairs, knock spoons and forks together, dawdle over their food, feed animals—­if any are allowed in the room—­or become restless and noisy.