NICE LITTLE DINNERS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3794, 12 September 1883, Page 4

NICE LITTLE DINNERS.

"Los diners" (nice little dinners), arc one of the most important things in the life of a Frenchmen, says the Sun Francisco News Letter. He will become enthusiastic over them, his eye will dilate, his mouth water, his face beam with the idea that ho i.s going to have a nice little dinner. There in nothing to a Frenchmen like " un petit diner," accompanied by the smart eon versation " cVun bon ami"—of a good friend. And is the ■Frenchman not right ? Is it not the most civilizing thing in the world to sit at a prettily laid table, decorated with the freshest flowers, and while partaking of dainty soups, fresh fish, appetizing entrees, savory roasts, early vegetables, crisp salads, and delicate swoofs, with old vintages of Siiutorno, Bordeaux, Burgundy, and good brands of sparkling champagne, talk over the concerns of the world, or your own with your friend, and chat cheerily with him on art, science, and what not—aye, even gossip, and speak of "chores amiesr" Give mo for the true civilizer, harmonizor and comforter of life, the nice little dinner. It beats a symphony by Beethoven, an opera of Wagner, a reverie by Schumann, a play by Shakespeare; why, it even beats a picture by liaphacl or Eubcns. It 7iot only brings enjoyment., but it increases your power for enjoyment. What happiness can be compared to that state of physical and mental satisfaction that follows a nice little dinner. You sip your cup of black coffee and smoke a fragrant Havana, and you are content with everything and everybody, and with yourself the most. A nice little dinner! Of all the things to be desired in this world, at the end of a day's business, is a nice little dinner: and the housewifu who can arrange it, Ihe caterer •who can provide for it, and the hutel that furnishes it, are benefactors of mankind. Ilubenstein has furnished the kitchen in his Russian palace home more sumptuously than his reception-room because giving forth much power, he knows the value of replacing it. If any particular city on the face of the globe should imitate him it is this city San Francisco, that has two heartthrobs to every other city's one, with its life of incessant excitement and frenzy. Tho human heart and brain are .surely tried in this most cosmopolitan city of the

modern world, and they want, above all, nice little dinners to stimulate them for new exertions. All this sounds like tho advertisement for a new "hash-house," but it is not one. It is simply the result of a nice little dinner.—Beauclerc.