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"  At a friend&amp;#039;s dinner party, she has set the table with fine china, beautiful linen napkins, and napkin rings. What should you do with the napkin ring once you&amp;#039;ve placed the napkin in your lap?  1) Place the napkin ring on the table to the left of your plate. 2) Pass the napkin ring along to the hostess. 3) Put the napkin ring on your bread plate.  The correct answer: (1) After you remove your napkin from the ring, you should place the napkin on your lap and the ring to the left of your plate. And after you have finished your meal, you have two options: You can place the napkin to the left of your plate, or once your plate has been removed, you can place it where your plate had been, but not back in the napkin ring. Traditionally, napkin rings were used informally and at family dinners so that cloth napkins could be reused. Each person had a distinct napkin ring. If the napkin was still clean, it was placed back in the ring at the end of the meal in order to be used again. But today, napkin rings are generally used for decoration, so there&amp;#039;s no need to &amp;quot;recycle.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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