Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home In the midst of the war, some French soldiers and some non-french of the Allied forces were receiving their rations in a village back of the lines. The non French fighters belonged to an Army that supplied rations plentifully. They grabbed their allotments and stood about while hastily eating, uninterrupted by con versation or other concern. The French soldiers took their very meager portions of food, improvised a kind of table on the top of a flat rock, and having laid out the rations, including the small quantity of wine that formed part of the repast, sat down in comfort and began their meal amid a chatter of talk. One of the non-french soldiers, all of whom had finished their large supply of food before the French had begun eating, asked sardonically: Why do you fellows make such a lot of fuss over the little bit of grub they give you to eat? The Frenchman replied: Well, we are making war for civilization, are we not? Very well, we are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.