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THE FUTURE OF DINNER-PARTIES except the coxswain who gained the deck to There is a certain air of unreality and not all, you, with him aloue under her ordern,, this girl, who was a pallor, ens! Besla cables, met zoma bondsnit, and got out iplo tắc open. It wes' touch a go, but true gris won. Three weeks longer the girl commanded before help same. Yet it did come finally, and so didUBLISHED. the wedding of the handsome young cawain and the captain's bedutiful and berole disaghter..
And yet there are some fools lalt who say va
make believe about the dinner party of to- day Compare it with the dinner-party of half a century ago, or, to go further back still, of Queen Anne's reign, One can got Fair idea of the latter entertainment from Swift's Polite Conversation." Lord Smart's dinder hoor was at three o'clock in the
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of eight were fouted go he goes on, and didn't know what quiring trustworthy Notes aid original venience its form and the socracy
a broken or deteriorated condition. Nor on Loren company thus provided for, First course, sirloin to do; bat my daughter said
ludes many interesting
Commerial Papers signify such papers account of alleged losses of the Centents of 8. Cizenjars, die, mint 2011 of beat, & a shoulder of real, a tongue, and But wait a minute: Before we hear what his Papers on the Arts, Sciences, Ethnology, fulness of report, lise lung been popular. fish. Second course: almond puddings, daaghter enidy let's have his story from the start, folklore, Gebgraphy, History, Literature, with resichts who wish to sand home a though Written by land, do not bear Registered covers which have reached their pancon sale in weight. Policema frilters, chickens, and soup. Third course: shipshape and Bristol fashion. He says: "In Mythology, Natural History, Antiquities, weekly res
East Circulating, hot F501890 party, baro, a gobe,
aham Dacedber, 1800, I was suddenly takon one day and Social Manners and Customs, ate, etc., and they of the nos of Flongkong the
the old China hands and sundry rabbits, pigeons, and partridges with an escrociating pain in the pit of the of China, Japan, Mongolia, Tibet, and the among andy all b tacked by the who seem to have hours I could neither sit nor lie down. The
guests,
medical men whe examined me gave me some partaket of every dish, and not spared themedies, but on the second day jaundice set la, clarat, the burgandy, and the streng Octo- and from that time I, suffered from a sixlar ber alu by which it was accompanied. Here was a mema that left the guests little stamt 2006 avery three weeks. Evary lolsure for polite conversation; but tightens tried without avail; nothing did the slightest good. The kitney secretion was some was not for the pleasure of conversing, bat thing frightful, being a mass of matter, blood, of eating, that they were met together, and and bile.
"This esotinted Ave months, and I grew for that purpose the quality and quantity of the food are the only qusations worth weaker and thinnor overy day. My friends consideration. A little more than a cen-thought nothing could save me. Many urged tury later, diabr-giving was still a simple me to bare further advice, ne at this is the secrations were cauch worse, and the motions matter of feeding the invited guests.
Just at yours ago, Thackeray wrote a resembled white clay. Another attack came on. paper in Fraser's Magicine, under the and as I was daily getting worse, I said, I wit msn of George Filsboodle, apon this so the doctor firal, and if he can do me no good, to
I will seek further medical help subject of alther-giving. Thackeray was no unwilling diner-out; he pretended to
Upon
himself as somewhat of a
Say it doɔnj; } paraan semnal or personal corredestination Nor, on account of any ida., thust be under somoss - simple dinzer, but conscientiously" at stominob and in the right side. For over tweyor Fast generally. Recently a néw do ut fiome hd -also, among residente at the 1 The clurge on them is the Bitele, for which the addresses; has signed a ? Heavier article will begế về đàn
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"Accordingly went to see him, but he was
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toom home, and would not return until late at night. I came home dojected and did not know gourmet, and beloved the disguston of what to do, but my daughter said, “Why don't | Lodge Correspondents' colaxan also affords you try other Seigel's Curative Syrup? We hear it has cared so mang. If it does you no good, it will do no harm. Well, I said to her I will try a bot le."
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whom
Tarpedido Banquets. In this instance he wee occupied in criticising a recent book of cookers, which seemed to have invited his warm crimendation. The Jinnste
1 thinn hagan to take it, and ob! how thank- tint he selected for special praise. are
from the ideas of tal Infterwards was, for on the third day Losold far almost sa removed
ste such a change. The secretiat, instead of to-day, as the dinner giren by Lord Smart,
ect.being nothing but corruption, became clear, and Tao following may be taken as a
speci men-Crimped salmon, Irish stew, mash- maticus a healthy colour. From that time ad potatoes, minco-pler, Oxford dumplings mince Veal, pickler, roast beef, and apple
is assiduously cultivated. Amongst the plo. "All the diabes were to be placed on the table together with the exception of
regular contributors are Drs. Chalmers, Professo the "finlergies which formed what was
Eitel; Bretschneider, and Hirth
and Moons Balfour, Watters, Stent, Legge, and calledredor for the Irish stew.
The abare commentation is from a buningas. Phillips, Macint
ons Jamieson, Macinty Qumu to a dinner of this
Groot, Feople who
intan man of bright character to the county of Brecon Faker, Kopsch Parker, Playfair, Giles, Jery serious kind, muit have
upon" their food. And, Bokeray Por especial ranzona he desires, his name to Piton, and Taylor,all well-known fdeal dinger was a very serious business withheld for the present, bat we freely pledge. adaed: In this first place to central our own reputation for the truth of his state indicative of sound scholarship and thorough
musiery of their subject. ment. The date is February 12, 1892. nts Be wrote, have them as
The attacks which would probably have soon handsome, as massive as you like, but be ended his life were of severe kiduey and liver hanged to flowers! I say. Rosci, bouquets, congestion, growing out of profound indigestion
Orders for bieding vólamos will b uiter and dyspepsit. His system was flooded with mos, and foliage I have sn contempt for as quite foolieb eruamenta bile acid poisom, and he may theuk Hoaren for promptly attended to; Address, Mans that has no right to appear in afmos having a daughter who made the right sugos-ger, Olina Mat Offc.' Theres composed of the fumes of barn,sion at a critical momsut. In soorage and good gravy, soup, game, lobster-sando uno she is like the other noble girl who saved Flowors were not made to eat away with them I doubt even whether young an- married Indies should be allowed to come down to dipper. They are a sort of flowers pretty little sentimental gowgaws-what hir,
Te is not
eant they know of eating hackeray would of course, to 'JOMË
are upheld all Mr Fitzbondta's opinions bare on this subject, but there is no doubt that they wars very largely his own and those of a good many men of his day. The food and the drink had really attractions, then for the dinor-out, who cared not a whit what his company i
might be, provided that
despise the Persicos apparatus, for those foreign adjunot have become the chief attraction of the fount. We feast our eyes on the sentimental gewgans that lie on the table before.us, and land our ears to the other otimantel gewgans who sit beside us, and it is the dianer-the food and the drink that may go lang f for all weare. Witness the article in the Daily News, in the course of which there is no mention of food, and hardly anything maid of drink, ave in the ples that only one wine should be served at a dinner-party and that wine, champagne, What people to whom champagne is farbidden ars to drink, the writer does not suggest On the other hand, he has much to gay on the abject of table decoration, and instances An arrangement of wild flowers that cost & hostess some filly bounds.
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That is the chief extravagance of the modem holtessher floral decorations. And her chief presccupation in the nics as- sortment of her griests with a view to con
That the actual dinner of Võfaktion.” to-day is immeasurably better than that of half century ago, in dna far more to the gouerst improvement in English cockery than to a wish to tempt jaded palatas by a more relined delicssy of food. Good though the dinner may be, it is not upon her dishes that the hostess depends for her sitocess, for the has long recognised that the exquisiteness of her table is of no more Enfortunately, avail than its cade planty the tank that nho now gets herself is very diuistit of achirement. It was
* a simple matter to cater for the grosser appetites: is a much more complicated on to satisfy theso undefinable wants, Though she cal in the services of artiste, cover her table with the rarest orchids, and take the utmost paior to please and interest the eye, by the ocatly beauty and originalty of her decora tions; though the arrange the disposition of her guests with the same anxious care that a General may spend upon the disposition of key his army f yet is she not always successful. For the problem she has before her is far more dieult to solve than that which -heast the heaters of fifty years back. The latter had to please her guests hersolf, the former has to discover a means of making. har guasta please each other. Hence comes about the pursuit of lions who will war smiably at dinner parties, and amaze fod. guests who no longer care for being. Some hostesses, seeing the diffenities of maintaining general conversations of large table, have his upon the notable devies of dividing their friends into smaller groupe, to be rested at separate tablesa device which generally fails, for though the groups t that are happily constitated may gain by their partial scalusion, the others, united by chance, may be worso-vil than they worn before In fact, dinner giving is not lost art, but so art that has been rendered so dionlt by altered condi tions as to be rarely practised with succ And the question arises whether this focu of hospitality whose original meaning and intention tas disappeared might not be allowed to diappaar also, and give place to some bultertainment which better meets the requirements of the day.-Spectator.
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at Beyront tention that has been bestowed of Isto years British Colonter upon the investigation of Chinese literature, Cyprus, antiquities, and social developments, to say Faland Islands. nothing of linguistic studies, has led to the Gibraltar," " socumulation of important stores of inform Malta. alion, rendering some gach channel of pub licity as in now provided extremely desir. shle; and contributions of manch interest Cape Colony. may fairly be looked or from the members
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