rhe declares, is a further Bilip." On the other hund sorber is more often than not an sent item on the menu these days. Then of course, there is the contingent which declares that any smoking during a meal is "base barbarism" and that as a matter of the fact that one has neither lends with whom to eat or afternoon engagements. Reading at tea, 12 -an- even worse offense,—an offense against the book, which in all probability may suffer from. drippings, crumbs, "or oven plums." Reading at dinner simply is not Jone, except when alone in hotels No feason for the verdict is given, however, Ax a matter of fact the only satisfactory time to read is at; supper, when the reader has whole night before hin to. fois his story between nibbles.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.