So far I have spoken of personal enjoyment only, But man does not live to himself alone. He is "social animal. It s Lord Chesterfield, I think, who advised his son never to read a book as long as he could find a sensible man to talk to. And certainly life would be a poor affair if robbed of its social amenities. A man is apt to get mentally cramped unless he meets frequently with his fellows and learns from their experiences and feels with their sympathies and subjects his own crude ideas to the attrition of their opinions. A hungry man is an angry man. It has been found most conducive to the harmony of the proceedings to conduct these friendly discussions round the dinner table. Entertaining has accordingly taken ita place as a valuable and, I regret to add, expensive social function. It falls, however, so completely within the housewifely domain that it would be presumption for me to say more about money spent on entertaining than to hint -that ostentation forms no part of true hospitality, and that a place at a modern dinner party would be more welcome than it is if by any possibility the subjects of conversation could be in-
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