Don’t press food upon a guest. This was once thought necessary and it was considered polite for a guest to continue accepting or to signify by a particular sign that he has had enough. (The Prince of Broglie, who traveled to our country in 1782, dined with “the lady of Robert Morris” and was repeatedly asked to have his cup refilled. When he had swallowed his twelfth cup of tea, his neighbor whispered into his ear and told him when he had enough of the water diet he should place his spoon across his cup else the hostess would go on refilling the cup and urging him to drink tea till the crack of doom.) To worry a guest with ceaseless importunities is now considered the worst possible taste.