Life — January 25, 1894 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: “such a jolly time!” “most enjoyable!" etc., and is happy in the consciousness of having done the usual thing. She is well aware that the space was over-crowded, and the music too loud ; that all enjoyment of the refreshments was destroyed in advance, that restful, intelligent conversation was impossible. All this she knows, but is too obtuse to profit by the knowledge. With dinners the process is the same. In the appointments of the table, in the serving of the courses and in the dinner itself, there is the same minute and expensive fussiness, a punctilious striving for the wrong effect. While in the inviting of the guests and in placing them at table she displays a want of tact and an ignorance of human nature that would be startling in a twelve-year- old child. No man would presume to conduct his business on similar A STRAIGHT TIP. WINNER OF THE CORBETT-MITCHELL FIGHT THE DAY AFTEK THE BATTLE. principles. Take, for instance, the theatrical manager whose object is also the entertainment of others; then imagine, if possible, this manager presenting night after night the same performance, and that a bad one, with absolutely no varia- tion, and in direct opposition to the tastes and preferences of a large proportion of his audience. But to make the com- parison a fair one, the performance should begin two hours too late, and most of the audience be compelled to stand. comicbooks.com