Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-02
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the hall, as also the tea and coffee. There is l no wine served at breakfast Fish, eggs. kidneys and devilled chickens ices, butter and French cakes make up the repast Nap klns are used at breakfast, but not at lunch which is also quite an important meal and at which vegetables, sauces and entremets are served In abundance. Lunch, in England, 1t appears, first took the form of light col
 lation, and was eaten standing. Subsequent ly 1t was brought to the diners apartments:
 then it was found more practical to come down to the diningroom for it, and finally the collation. grew to the proportions of full square meal But to preserve the form of a collation still, napkins are not allowed
 After breakfast the young people betake themselves to lawn-tennis or to pheasant chasing in the park. Others enjoy them selves riding on horseback till lunch time. That portion of the fair sex who have at tained more old-maidish maturity retire to the library and occupy themselves in the reading of pious books. One rarely sees any of the ladies engaged in needleworlz or other light employment. The English woman re- quires more violent species of exercise At Hatfield House, especially, the needle is held in slight honor. The eldest of Lord Sails burys daughters is regarded as the most ac- complished Amazon in England, and is pas sionately fond of tennis. Her younger sister, who is not so fanatically addicted to sport gives herself up every day to her favorite recreation, namely the solution of arithnle- tical problems and the difficulties of algebra. She has surprising talent in this direction. She Is the inheritor of of the aptitude that
 has always run in the Cecil family in every generation for the science of mathematics. No preparation is made for lunch. Every body rushes and begins without formality of rules of etiquette. After lunch the morning exercises are resumed, and the guests, as a rule, are shown around the premises and led on pleasant little excursions The next meal Is ''tea,' 1t is served in the dining
 room at one end of the hall and on grand ceremonial occasions in the state saloon. The walters are young ladies' There is q special toilet required. The gentlemen ap- pear in full dress coat and the ladies in
 French dinner costume. Tine guests, how ever, are permitted to appear ill their every day costume provided it be not tennis. fer says, or Amazonian skirts. This is the only | time when everybody talks with everybody else
 At 7 o'clock the bell rings for dinner. This thu only repast where everything is de rigueur. The gentlemen are all in full dress, the ladies ill ball toilets, with flowers and diamonds; the servants are in grand livery blue brooches: silk flesh -colored stockings, buckled shoes, blue waist coat and black coat. The valet de chambre, major domo I and sub-major domo are also in full uniform Lord and Lady Salisbury, facing one another, sit at the centre of table The guests may
 take what places they choose, except at the right of Lord and Lady Salisbury, which are reserved for the persons of rank who may chance to be present,o some person to whom special honor is to be shown But this is the only reserved place. For the rest one may often see Lady Salisbury having at her right side the first Duke of the realm and at her left the tutor of her children.
 Dinner over, which is served Ia Fr h. caise, the ladies rise and leave the hall in order of precedence. The gentlemen for the ''pass wine," when they drink and chat. The Queen, when a young woman, tried to abolish this GUS tom, but she had to renounce her en- deavor at the instance of Lord Melbourne At the residence of Lord Salisbury, who is very temperate and does not smoke, the pass- wine is observed only on great ceremonial occasions and during the parliamentary din- ing parties At other times every one leaves the dining groom at the same time, and goes into the grand hall, or the library or else where During Christmas time little or chestra plays during dinner and in the even- ings, and dancing is allowed if the young people so inclined. At other times rec reation is found in whist and backgammon Some thump the piano, some sing, some read
 and some mope- There never less than forty persons at table.