Letter writer noticed that even the most basic table manners are ignored. Dear Miss Manners: When I was growing up, my mother ...

When I was growing up, my mother was adamant that I learn proper manners, especially at the dinner table. Bad table manners ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I was growing up, my mother was adamant that I learn proper manners, especially at the dinner table.

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to whether table manners are outdated.

In reality, instruction in table manners was incidental to the main lesson, which was how to exchange ideas, frame a polite ...

A reader wonders if proper table manners are outdated, lamenting that many people weren’t taught basic dining etiquette like ...

basic things like: wait till everyone is seated before starting to eat; don’t use your fingers; ask to be excused before ...

When I was growing up, my mother was adamant that I learn proper manners, especially at the dinner table. Bad table manners ...

Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I was growing up, my mother was adamant that I learn proper manners, especially at the dinner table.

How can my husband and I accept gracious dinner invitations to dine at someone’s home and tell them that we don’t eat meat ...