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~

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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~

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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~

September Lit Wick Paper

Introduction Etiquette

excerpts from Emily Post’s 1922 Edition of Etiquette

   Do not say: “Mr. Jones, shake hands with Mr. Smith,” or

“Mrs. Jones, I want to make you acquainted with Mrs.

Smith.” Never say: “make you acquainted with” and do not, in

introducing one person to another, call one of them “my friend.”

You can say “my aunt,” or “my sister,” or “my cousin”—but to pick

out a particular person as “my friend” is not only bad style but,

unless you have only one friend, bad manners—as it implies Mrs.

Smith is “my friend” and you are a stranger.

 You may very properly say to Mr. Smith “I want you to

meet Mrs. Jones,” but this is not a form of introduction, nor is it to

be said in Mrs. Jones’ hearing. Upon leading Mr. Smith up to Mrs.

Jones, you say “Mrs. Jones, may I present Mr. Smith” or “Mrs.

Jones; Mr. Smith.” Under no circumstances whatsoever say “Mr.

Smith meet Mrs. Jones,” or “Mrs. Jones meet Mr. Smith.” Either

wording is equally preposterous.

 Do not repeat “Mrs. Jones? Mrs. Smith! Mrs. Smith? Mrs.

Jones!” To say each name once is quite enough.

 Most people of good taste very much dislike being asked

their names. To say “What is your name?” is always abrupt and

unflattering. If you want to know with whom you have been talking,

you can generally find a third person later and ask “Who was the

lady with the grey feather in her hat?” The next time you see her you

can say “How do you do, Mrs. —————” (calling her by name).

~The Editor~

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There is difference also between a wife and a

virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the

things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in

body and in spirit: but she that is married careth

for the things of the world, how she may please

her husband.

- I Corinthians 7:34

~Leslie Rose Yale~

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If you were asked the question, “Do you care about the people around you?” Most of us

would probably answer yes. But do you realize that about 150,000 people will die today

and most of them are headed for hell? And are you doing anything to help that

predicament improve?

This is when we can test how much we care for others. Because if we truly care about

people, we will help them figure out where they are headed after they die. And if they are

headed to eternity in the lake of fire, we will give them the ‘directions’ to eternity in

heaven.

So, are you going to just sit there and watch all those people die without knowing where

they are headed?

I was challenged by this subject, as I hope you have been, in the book:

One Thing You Can’t Do In Heaven by Mark Cahill.

~Charity Clothespin~

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Beneficence

The practice of doing good; active goodness,

kindness, or charity.

~Dawn Paperclip~

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Composer of the Month

Matthew Locke, born in 1681, was trained as a

boy in the choir of Exeter Cathedral, under the

tutelage of Edward Gibbons. At the age of

eighteen, he travelled in the Netherlands,

possibly converting to Roman Catholicism at

the time.

Locke, with Christopher Gibbons (the nephew

of his teacher), composed the score for Cupid

and Death, the 1653 masque by Caroline era

playwright James Shirley. Their score for that

work is the sole surviving score for a dramatic

work from that era.

In 1673 Locke's treatise on music

theory, Melothesia, was published. The title

page describes him as "Composer in Ordinary

to His Majesty, and organist of her Majesty's

chapel"—those monarchs being Charles

II and Catherine of Braganza.  His successor in

the latter office was Henry Purcell (who we

mentioned in the November issue of the Lit

Wick Gazette), and Locke has been described

as Purcell's mentor.  His final work was the

score for Psyche, composed in 1675.

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Those who care for their parents will be cared for by their children.

-Unknown

~The Editor~