DEAR MISS MANNERS: While staying at a lovely hotel, each morning before leaving my room, I would place $10 on the writing table for the maid. When I returned to my room the second day, I noticed ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: If we renewed the lovely fashion of wearing gloves, people wouldn’t have to fear catching germs from shaking hands or appearing rude for refusing. GENTLE READER: Why didn’t ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband and I are intensely divided over the appropriateness of using the kitchen sink to wash one’s hands for anything other than food prep. I grew up in a house where the ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Can you please publish a few short words on presenting a proper toast? Among millennials and Gen Z, the word “cheers” has become both a noun and a verb. I have heard “Let ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I carry all of my weight in my belly. Since I’ve been 18, I’ve had to deal with people asking when I’m due or whether it’s a boy or a girl. It always makes me feel fat ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: While staying at a lovely hotel, each morning before leaving my room, I would place $10 on the writing table for the maid. When I returned to my room the second day, I noticed ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have been a vegetarian for 15 years. It never fails that once a fellow diner finds out this information, they immediately take it upon themselves to read aloud everything on ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband and I are intensely divided over the appropriateness of using the kitchen sink to wash one’s hands for anything other than food prep. I grew up in a house where the ...

GENTLE READER: Please remind Miss Manners to tell the business world to stop getting into etiquette, because they take things that everyone understood and muddy them up beyond all recognition.

In celebration, “cheers” should be an exclamation: “I’d like to propose a toast: Here’s to teaching young people manners and etiquette.” Then everyone raises a glass and exclaims ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: If we renewed the lovely fashion of wearing gloves, people wouldn’t have to fear catching germs from shaking hands or appearing rude for refusing. GENTLE READER: Why didn’t ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I hold an annual party, for which I hire a person to assist me in setting it up, maintaining the buffet and serving drinks. She has always done a great job. At the most recent ...