Docents expanding etiquette class to include adults

"Manners never go out of style'

Betsy Thomas holds up a small soup dish, out of which it is proper to drink, during a demonstration on table manners to Jefferson City Area Young Professionals. Thomas is a docent with the Missouri Governor's Mansion and regularly gives lessons to youngsters, but this is a first time to adults.
Betsy Thomas holds up a small soup dish, out of which it is proper to drink, during a demonstration on table manners to Jefferson City Area Young Professionals. Thomas is a docent with the Missouri Governor's Mansion and regularly gives lessons to youngsters, but this is a first time to adults.

If you are attending your first company party this holiday season, you might want to take some cues from the Missouri Mansion Preservation's corporate etiquette class.

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U.S. President George W. Bush, walks with First Lady Laura Bush as they board Air Force One to leave G-8 Summit from Rostock airport, in Rostock, Germany, Friday.

The Jefferson City Area Young Professionals got a manners refresher course Thursday during its monthly luncheon.