A 15th-century book on manners, newly digitized by The British Library, is filled with rules that wouldn't be out of place in a first-grade classroom today: Don't spit at the table, don't burp, and ...

Today's etiquette topic is: Proper Table (burp) Manners. I have here a letter from Jean Gerdes, who teaches Family and Consumer Science to sixth-graders at the Donegal Middle School in Marietta, Pa.

This column originally was published on Nov. 24, 1996. Today's etiquette topic is: Proper Table (burp) Manners. I have here a letter from Jean Gerdes, who teaches family and consumer science to ...

Australian parents have abandoned table manners, allowing their kids to eat however they want as long as they finish their food. A new survey found 57 per cent of parents have given up trying to ...