This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...of dinner-parties, and it is there customary to tax to the full the capacity of your dining-room. The more people you can gather--I will not say cram--round your tables the more old scores have been wiped off, or the more new friendships, with pleasurable vistas of return dinner-parties, have been sealed. A Danish ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...of dinner-parties, and it is there customary to tax to the full the capacity of your dining-room. The more people you can gather--I will not say cram--round your tables the more old scores have been wiped off, or the more new friendships, with pleasurable vistas of return dinner-parties, have been sealed. A Danish dinner-party is often a spirited function; the host drinks individually with his guests, or as many of them as he can manage, and one guest often drinks with another. At birthdays and other anniversaries, not only are toasts and speeches common, but some more or less gifted poetic friend of the family often writes a song, which is distributed amongst the guests and sung at the table--and there are families who have more poetic friends than one. The gentlemen leave the table at the same time as the ladies, often, however, only to retire to the host's rooms for coffee, liquors, and a smoke, whilst the ladies console themselves much in the same way in the drawing-rooms. In many houses cigarettes are offered to the ladies, and one often sees almost every woman present smoking. The people one meets at a typical Copenhagen dinner-party are in themselves but little typical, --this is not in the least meant to detract; they are men and women of the world, such as one might meet in any big city--travelled, extremely well-read, taking a keen interest in what goes on in the world, and often very entertaining. There is the eminent doctor, just back from a hurried visit to Paris and London, so as to keep himself in close touch with his science in its most advanced stages; the smart--very smart--lieutenant of the Hussars, who has recently returned from two or three years' foreign service; the brilliant literary man, whose genius all Europe knows and admires; the...
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