TO shine at the dinner table requires much conversant practice with polite life. Persons invited to a dinner party should be of the same standing in society. They need not be acquaintances, yet they should be such as move in the same class or circles.
Great care should be taken to invite those who are agreeable to each other. Good talkers and good listeners are equally invaluable at a dinner.
Great care should be taken to invite those who are agreeable to each other. Good talkers and good listeners are equally invaluable at a dinner. Among your guests always have one or more musicians. This will add greatly to the entertainment of your friends before and after dinner. —From “Rules of Etiquette and Home Culture,” 1890
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