MISCELLANEOUS.
NEVER LEARN TO CARVE
Never learn to carve young man. There is no fuu in it.
A knowledge of tho art saddles you with a responsibility which, while it may procure you invitations to dinner, sits heavily on tlic soul aud brings wrinkles on tho forehead. I. you do not perform the work artistically, you are criticised. It a tough fowl gets away from you ahd tykes refuge in v lady's lap, you aro laughed at and make an enemy of the fair one whose dress you soil or *poil. You offend Jones if you send the choicest cut to Smith, and vice vei'hH. You must send the best away and reserve only the least io bo desired for your, self.
Tin- waiters mako you tho -iibjeet of their remarks, and by "putting their heads together and jerking their thumbs over their shoulder in your direction embarrass v.v dreadfully : you know by the fiendish leer on their faces that they have set y.u down as a blacksmith. it' the room is war"" Vyu are thrown into a violent persniriHrm - "°Uf oolll,r wilts ' uoukrit ' fc'ets ~;».'rv, your uppeli.. l *»' . ' your n/tvw are finished 7?" lvgi« yo»r dinner with tti-, air of one who has been in a pugilibtic'iui'lliindcolHC out Kl'-jlj_ best. Don't learn to curve.'
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5325, 15 September 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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215MISCELLANEOUS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5325, 15 September 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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