Lit Wick Paper. November 2012

Introduction Etiquette

excerpts from Emily Post’s 1922 Edition of Etiquette

   Best Society has only one phrase in acknowledgment of an

introduction: “How do you do?” It literally accepts no other. When

Mr. Bachelor says, “Mrs. Worldly, may I present Mr. Struthers?”

Mrs. Worldly says, “How do you do?” Struthers bows, and says

nothing. To sweetly echo “Mr. Struthers?” with a rising inflection on

“—thers?” is not good form. Saccharine chirpings should be classed

with crooked little fingers, high hand-shaking and other affectations.

All affectations are bad form.

  Persons of position do not say: “Charmed,” or “Pleased to meet

you,” etc., but often the first remark is the beginning of a

conversation. For instance:

  Young Struthers is presented to Mrs. Worldly. She smiles and

perhaps says, “I hear that you are going to be in New York all

winter?” Struthers answers, “Yes, I am at the Columbia Law

School,” etc., or since he is much younger than she, he might

answer, “Yes, Mrs. Worldly,” especially if his answer would

otherwise be a curt yes or no. Otherwise he does not continue

repeating her name.

~The Editor~

~

When I walk through the forest glade

And listen to the leaves,

That gently rustle to and fro

Against the autumn breeze.

They speak of beauty far above

And of a loving Hand,

Sustaining all the world around

With one word of command.

I sing a song of gratefulness

To God who made the world,

And think that if we silent are

The trees proclaim His word.

~Kaylianna Selwyn~

~

Pumpkin Apple Streusel Muffins

Ingredients

•2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

•2 cups white sugar

•1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice

•1 teaspoon baking soda

•1/2 teaspoon salt

•2 eggs, lightly beaten

•1 cup canned pumpkin puree

•1/2 cup vegetable oil

•2 cups peeled, cored and chopped apple

•2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

•1/4 cup white sugar

•1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

•4 teaspoons butter

1.      Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 18 muffin cups or use paper liners.

2.      In a large bowl, sift together 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, 2 cups sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, mix together eggs, pumpkin and oil. Add pumpkin mixture to flour mixture; stirring just to moisten. Fold in apples. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.

3.      In a small bowl, mix together 2 tablespoons flour, 1/4 cup sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle topping evenly over muffin batter.

4.      Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into a muffin comes out clean.

~Isabel Delacruz~

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Composer of the Month 

Frank Martin,  born in 1890, was born in

Switzerland to a Huguenot family, the son of a

Calvinist preacher, and the youngest of ten

children.  He began writing music at  a young

age, but did not receive any musical training

until he went to Geneva College to study

mathematics and physics, where he took

lessons from prominent Swiss composer Joseph

Lauber.  Before his death in November 1974,

he had written 29 works, including one ballet

and an opera.

~

Movie Review:

Nicholas Nickelby (2002)

Nicholas Nickelby is based off a book of the same name by Charles Dickens.  The

theme of the movie is found in one of its first sentences:

 “When a parent dies, that person on whom you rely on for only—everything, you

wonder who will catch you now.”

The film shows a young man in about 1850, Nicholas Nickelby, whose father dies,

and a year of his life in which he must find who will take care of his sister, mother,

and himself.  Will his uncle help them?  Will the Schoolmaster of Dotheboys Hall

prove generous in his employment?  Is the theater the answer?

By the end, he finds that the people who can best make his family happy are kinhearted, good people who help him stand on his own feet, and that sometimes the

sweetest times come when you have ‘caught’ someone else who needs help even

more than yourself.

The movie is rated PG for childbirth scenes, and there are some whippings shown

on screen, so while the older Dickens reader themself will not be too bothered,

their younger siblings may not want to watch this movie.

Charles Hunnam is Nicholas Nickelby, Romola Garai (Emma, 2009) plays Kate

Nickelby, alongside Cristopher Plummer (Sound of Music), Anne Hathaway

(Becoming Jane) , and  Jamie Bell (Tintin)

~Agatha Forsyth~

Lit Wick Paper: October 2012

Introduction Etiquette

excerpts from Emily Post’s 1922 Edition of Etiquette

  When gentlemen are introduced to each other they  always shake 

hands. 

  When a gentleman is introduced to a lady, she sometimes puts out 

her hand—especially if he is some one she has long heard about 

from friends in common, but to an entire stranger she generally 

merely bows her head slightly and says: “How do you do!” Strictly 

speaking, it is always her place to offer her hand  or not as she 

chooses, but if he puts out his hand, it is rude on her part to ignore it. 

Nothing could be more ill-bred than to treat curtly any overture 

made in spontaneous friendliness. No thoroughbred lady would ever 

refuse to shake any hand that is honorable, not even the hand of a 

coal heaver at the risk of her fresh white glove. 

  Those who have been drawn into a conversation do  not usually 

shake hands on parting. But there is no fixed rule.

  A lady sometimes shakes hands after talking with a casual stranger; 

at other times she does not offer her hand on parting from one who 

has been punctiliously presented to her. She may find the former 

sympathetic and the latter very much the contrary. 

  Very few rules of etiquette are inelastic and none more so than the 

acceptance or rejection of the strangers you meet. 

  There is a wide distance between rudeness and reserve. You can be 

courteously polite and at the same time extremely aloof to a stranger 

who does not appeal to you, or you can be welcomingly friendly to 

another whom you like on sight. Individual temperament has also to 

be taken into consideration: one person is naturally austere, another 

genial. The latter shakes hands far more often than the former. As 

already said, it is unforgivably rude to refuse a proffered hand, but it 

is rarely necessary to offer your hand if you prefer not to. 

~The Editor~ 

~

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an 

example of the believers, in word, in 

conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in 

purity. 

-1 Timothy 4:12 

~Charity Clothespin~

~

Cute Upcyled T-Shirt Scarf 

The only thing you need is a T-shirt. Youth 14-16 or larger sizes will work 

fine. 

Lay your T-shirt out and find a paper plate and some sewing scissors. Lay 

the paper plate on the shirt {close to the edges to conserve fabric} and draw 

around the paper plate with a pencil. 

Before you cut it out, make sure you have enough fabric for at least eight 

paper plate circles on the shirt. {any where from eight to twelve circles 

works best} Trace and cut out eight circles on the shirt. 

After you are finished, take one of the circles and cut into it about two 

inches, {making spirals about two inches wide} and keep cutting around the 

circle until you reach the center and have no more to cut. Then take the strip 

you just cut and stretch it all out. It should curl for you. 

Repeat the spiral cutting and stretching for all of the circles. After you are 

finished with that, lay them all out together and take a small piece of fabric 

and tie them together in the middle. 

Optional: you can make a flower of your choice according to your tastes. 

~Dawn Paperclip~

~

Youth is wasted on the young. 

-George Bernard Shaw 

~The Editor~

~

Mozerella Chicken Recipe 

4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts 

1/4 cup butter 

salt and pepper to taste 

4 slices mozzarella cheese 

1 egg, beaten 

2 cups all-purpose flour for coating 

1 cup seasoned dry bread crumbs 

1/4 cup butter 

2 teaspoons minced garlic 

1 cup dry white wine 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) 

2. Place chicken breasts between 2 sheets of wax paper. Pound each to 1/4 inch thickness. Spread butter over the 

inside, then add salt and pepper to taste. 

3. Place slice of cheese on breast, roll and close with toothpicks. Repeat with each breast. Dip rolled breasts in 

flour, then egg, then breadcrumbs. Place coated breasts in a lightly greased 9X13 inch baking dish. 

4. To make sauce: In a saucepan, melt 1/4 cup butter and add garlic. Add wine and simmer all together. Pour 

sauce over chicken and bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 45 minutes. 

5. Serve and enjoy! 

Note: When I made this I just used butter and garlic for the sauce. 

~Eliza Bennet~

~

Composer of the Month 

Rebecca Clarke,  born in 1886, was born in 

England to an American father and a German 

mother.  At the age of nine, she took up the 

violin, and later began attending the Royal 

Academy of Music.  However, her father 

withdrew her when she fell in love with her 

teacher in 1907, who bequeathed her his 

Stradivarius when he died in 1922.  She then 

transferred to the Royal College of music where 

she studied under some of the best musicians of 

the time, including hymnist Ralph Vaughn 

Williams, but was forced to quit in 1910, when 

she was sent away from home and disinherited 

her over Rebecca’s criticism of some 

unrepentant adultery in her father’s life.  

Therefore, she performed viola concerts for her 

living, becoming one of the first women to  in  

Queen’s Hall Orchestra.  Due to social 

convention of the times, female composers did 

not always appeal to everybody, and her early 

favorites were published under male synonyms.  

In 1927, she founded the English Ensemble, a 

piano quartet, and when around ten years later 

she got stuck in America, she lived with her 

brothers for a while, then took a situation as a 

governess for a family in Connecticut in 1942.  

After a chance meeting with an old friend, 

James Friskin, she married at the age of 50.  

Despite her husband’s encouragement, Clarke 

stopped composing after her marriage—a health 

condition resulting in depression made it 

difficult for her to work happily at it, so spent 

her later days writing a memoir about her 

childhood in a dysfunctional family, called  I 

Had a Father, Too, and died at the age of 93 in 

October, 1979.