Our society . CEREMONIOUS DINNERS. 2^. T no kind of social entertainment is it soimportant that the guests should be congenialand well suited to each other as at a dinner. Thehostess should be quite sure that the elements she isabout to bring together will coalesce with harmoni-ous results. The same people are obliged to belonger in each others society, without any escape,than at any other form of social gathering. Youand your neighbor at the table must talk, or you are painfullyconscious of boring each other, and being considered sticks byall the rest. Imagine the situation when }^ou have not
Our society . CEREMONIOUS DINNERS. 2^. T no kind of social entertainment is it soimportant that the guests should be congenialand well suited to each other as at a dinner. Thehostess should be quite sure that the elements she isabout to bring together will coalesce with harmoni-ous results. The same people are obliged to belonger in each others society, without any escape,than at any other form of social gathering. Youand your neighbor at the table must talk, or you are painfullyconscious of boring each other, and being considered sticks byall the rest. Imagine the situation when }^ou have not one ideaor taste in common. General conversation should at intervalsbring the whole company en rapport or into sympathy; but,in these days the prevailing tendency seems to be to talk inpairs. The era of great conversers, who could entertain awhole tableful with their wit and eloquence, seems to havegone by. We can not believe there are no longer any suchtalkers as those of the old time; we rather think there are nosuch listeners. Muc
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