A NEGLIGEE IN FANCY MUSLIN AND EMBROIDERY.
The difference between a clever talker and ono who delights in saying things which embarrass/and annoy, is much the same as-that which exists between a firstclass fencer and a bungling assassin. In these days,' when tho art of. conversation is little understood, and women punctuato .speech with idle commentary, such as "Oil, really," "You don't say so," and "That's right," it is no infrequent thing to encounter hosts - and 'hostesses who wilfully check conversation by remarks, in many cases well meant, such o.s "Now,we will.talk, of something -else," "Don't you think you have heard enough about that?" and other verbal stupidities which affect the good talker like an icyblast. Since tho early forties, conversation as an art has been on the decline, and witticism, of first-water brilliancy has i given way to cheap clap-trap which lacks the grace of being even passably smart. Whether there will be a return to the palmy days of conversational distinction is questionable, but the fact that. : wOmen are sharpening their wits on tho public from tho eminence of platforms those days points to a hope'that it may be so.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1307, 9 December 1911, Page 11
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192A NEGLIGEE IN FANCY MUSLIN AND EMBROIDERY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1307, 9 December 1911, Page 11
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