The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-02-27
TgTLT ssCItL LIFE.
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w. we n pave JUS read a letter giving a
.t -'s -',5 review Of the customs ~
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extracts. After descFibia.- a -.
lively round of eBgagemsnts ~
week or so, the writer goes on to -s,,-
I There Is scarcely any expense attend
ing this going out. Sometimes Won
have 10 pay dollar and a quarter for
a cab 10 take and fetch you ifit is far,
but such necessity IS rare. Gentlemen
mostly go alone 10 evening gatherings,
as ladies 20 with their mothers it is
considered rather especially elegant
HO' u wear gloves, except AT dancing
parties, where they are requisite. 50
an occasional shilling for a cab If IL
rains, and another smiling to slip in
TO the walters hand at dinnerparty,
and the list Of expenses is cOmpletg.
The carriage hire and gloves Of one
party in America, would pay for half
a season here. One OF the results of
this - that there Is no lack os attsn-
dance OF young men at the parties. bs-
cause every one who has a dress suit
can afford to goOut.
One plan that mas struck meas very
good here IS the custom of giving
double entertainments. Furinstsnce.
Mrs \. gave private theatFicals her
rooms would not seat al she wanted
TO ask, so she had them two evenings
in succession, and in that way invited
all she wanted. Miss T., this week.
isSiies IN Invitations Tar u Raasie.i rarfv
Tuesday and dinner party on Thurs
gay In general the crowds are diff
ieTeut, and she asks every one to the
one she thinks would suit best. Mrs.
4. has another plan. She has a little
company once week, and so by tens
and tweives gets all her acquaintances
attended TO- People entertain more
here than they do in America. Little
companies, and little dinner parties.
a:e going on all the time at every
baiy's houses. They do not yet M
grand sUPpevs except for large parties.
At the small affairs, tea or coffee and
cake when you come in, and cIaret
cup Ike our Sangsrref, and sherry
with cake later I'm the evening, are re-
gsrdsd IS quite sufficient. So poor
people entertain, and society is made
much lIvelier The C.'s I fancy. are
by no means rich, but they have, and
are foud % much c9mpsny. There is
no show, bat great deal Of enjoy
ment at their house. You can't tell
what u will be, hut il is sure to he
pleasant when you 90 there. Some
times II * singing, sometimes i'm
promptU tabiesuX or charsdsS, and
again il is reading, but il usually ends
in dance, for the back drawing room
is kept uucarpeted for the purpose and
Is always ready. / can't help but
think they have = better idea Of So
ciety than where great spreads are
considered necessary II one desires to
entertain, and the expenses are 50
great that none but the rich can stand
them"
We would not have taken the trouble
to copy the foregoing, il we did not
think il calculated TO 10 n great deal Of
good. Social intercourse, at least that
outside Ofthe immediate family circle
and intimate friends, is so limited in
our region Of country, and yet az the
same time it is 80 pleasant and bene-
fetal 10 all, that whatever can be done
to augment l. Ought 10 be attempt
ell. Nor is there = better way of so
doing than by studying simplicity Of
manners, inexpensiveness of enter
and the exercise OF that gener-
al hospitality for which the noble
people we have held up as an example
are so justly celebrated.