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I belong to a club, the principle fune tion of which is to dine once a month," write Stacey Aumonter in the Evening Standard. We have no speeches. At the end of the dinner the chairman makes onsi or two announcements about future dia- Her Wo then mix up, talk and to bed.

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literary club, but it would be just a reasonable to give it a gastronomie titte The success of the original and dazzling idea, however, may be adjudged by the fact that although we have only bin existence a few years, WP have DOW branches in eleven different countries! Es ing in Paris last autumn I thought I wordd look up the French branch. this

found that the

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dioners had been

place to afternoon tea. Now, whereas at our dinners in London, we usually have an about one baadres and attendance qi twenty, at the Parisian tea party there wory seven members present Inked a member an Englishrunn Jeug resident ja Paris-why the dinner, had been abolish. el, and he said: Freach people don't' like dining out in the evening."

In view of one's normal cageption of life in what is known as the day city, this seemed to me an astonishing datement But en going into the mattedans finds it The Fraichinan is substantially corrent. prefers to dine at home, or occasionally at a restaurant with his family a friends, but he has never taken kindly to the pub lie dinner, and the man-only dioner is abhorrent to him.

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WHERE LONLOS SPOR

With the possible exception of New York there is no city in the work which the public dinner has been so cares | tufly festered as Loadon. Every night n the week, in all the big boek, o specially those but Hollors, and the city, you will find han halls till with hun shreds

her.

ing the nasting drinking eventy The bette wen shes names are only vaguely fami Har to then agd whom the mas, tay ling will huts assumells forgotten.

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Dieß the Bloglishman's, panjeva fell scoal ills and the white of his That social assurance. If he wan to form company celebrate an anniversary, stablish a

ship. he begins by arrang-" the dinner minst be ing a dunen.

aer rding to stries vole. eunited King Edward ohtamed the title of the Pince maker largely because he saw the constructive and ameliorative value of good dignos, E some politician ve far- en diplomat becure a little obstreperous

lavite him to dinner. The di ne being over, and the port laving pass d he would light a cigne about the size and say: Now, sin

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about The Huglishmau la scine lenely outpost of evilisation, surrounded by black man. old wd hosts, dress for dinner, ame thus makes the gesture of a dominant stubbing. The 'for extrecia come, London. He goes to Westminster, HRA not going to stand any bonusentrum ther bou egruisie.. I's going to do this, that; and the ther. And then Suidery find hunself duing somewhere. His in an atmosphere of "lacquer furniture and prity wenen. Some women coming, long line of bourgeoisie, and selling faintly or oppanax, says to him:-

Oh, MP. 1-

we think, you're 20 charming and elever " or winds j that TE He clutches die arms of his chair. He juggles to

four of his rate upon the mis-)

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is bound she duge S15 dinners he fuds thut shift After maar the angle Ea-shifted 07 than he real id. The dianer is too much for bim, Con crie abtraction, on molowed by the ttle maares of his individual experi

Phew. If he is to reform humanity he must go the desert, where there's noth ing to eat but api.

Semrong may urgo: "What about the Peuple who have no dinners?

ter, or in

The people who have no divers are not a part of the social aten. They a accidental. The.

majority of people do have in the Carlton Chib, and the di

whether in n calman's shel er is involved in their destiny. For it is not is the sale of either quantity or quality of the food we consume that we ajudge the veial standard, but by the Baner in which the ceremonial icon- ducted. If the issue na between diners las

between those who bad no dinner ut those who can be hardly sail to dine-sa the juhabitants of a slum in Rotherhith

and the inhabitants of Park-lane, the. matter would be serious indeed.

But what saves the situation is the fact that there are people in intermediate neighbourhoods, like Camden Town and Kilburn, who are trying to conduct their. diquer, in a more spiritually significant

than their neighbours.

and Panurge, ww are taught to stand, dingi suptuousty, bak duir manners would not have han tolerated even in Shepherd Bush I was reading In eighteenth century book on table mak Eners reently. One injunction was that, whey you are a guest, you should net smell the tent upon your fork befor putting it into your month.

"DEDÚNING THE WELL.

• In these days we jure even more cu- cumspet. Why you are invited on to dinner, you miglit imagine that dinner was what you were invited out for. But tant au contattet. The dutier--and 15 may be a most elaborate dinner-is the one subject that is utterly ignored. You tník above it airity and disdainfully. Servants hand you dishes and you help Yourself in a preoccupied manner, as though eating were vulgar, nud you sin merely subscribing to a ritual. (01. coure, when you get home you may say to your wife, "What an abominable dianer!" and she may reply, Yes, wasn't the soup awful !" and "you may analyse it in detail. But that neither here not there. It does not detract from the humanising and broadening effect of dining with your friends and eren wilh your enemies).

One of the secrets of the success of the British Commonwealth has been the akilful use that is always made of din ners, both public and private. It is a weapon more powerful than submarines, aeroplanes, or armies. I'm sorry that. the French branch of our cab has fallen back on tea,

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"My baby had a breiking out of arpali pimples and blauches an his face and birds. Later the skin be gan to poc cff, having the affecred parts very tender. The pimples Itched and burned at night, adding bim to be very restless.

I sent for a free sample of Cu cars Soap and Ointment and after I purchased using he got relief. more which completely healed him In three weeks." (Signed) Mrs. A. Henry, 240, -Boundary Rd., St. Helen's, Lancs. Sing

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