Women as After-Dinner Orators.
It is significant that about two-tliirds of the students vlio have' lately taken a course of instruction in after-dinner • oratory at Columbia College arc women. It may be that they are qualifying to introduce the 'suffrage' as a topic that ■will aid digestion. Apparently (says tiie Boston Courier) their ambition is not; deterred by the fact that the method of training does not include the serving of a good dinner to the members of the class as a preliminary to tlic.practical demonstrations. It is as important for an after-dinner speaker as for a railroad to have good terminal facilities. It is a fine test of the art to-, know when to stop. ..tie-should remember the candidate, for the pulpit who, being; criticised for. the shortness • of liis; .sermon/, replied that "no souls arc saved, after twenty minutes" of exhortation.--
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10628, 3 December 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)
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143Women as After-Dinner Orators. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10628, 3 December 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)
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