AFTER-DINNER SPEAKERS.
At recent dinners, where fcoth men and wojnep .have spoken, it has beeji common, comment that of the two the women were the better'speakers, -says a writer in "Harper's Bazaar." One clever man, after a dinner in' New York, where the women carried off all the p'ost-prahdial honours, explained it thus:—"The women, are not such egotists. Every man felt himself the star of'the evening. (So he insisted on talking for-twenty minutes and more, till the whole table was weary of him. The women-had sense; They got'up, talked, brilliantly for just five minutes, and then sat.down, leaving everybody anxious for .more. J ,' '. Age-long training fells. For generations the women in every normal family,-have sat-.and.--listened .to the favourite s.toriesof'thoir fathers, brothers, and husbands.. They have learned tho ■long irrelevant preludes to an anecdote, the.drea.ry delays and' advances up to its points, the boresonie, flat epilogues. And, meanwhile, in the "gracious, gentle role of audience, they have laid to heart that precious knowlcdgo "how not to do it."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1515, 10 August 1912, Page 11
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167AFTER-DINNER SPEAKERS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1515, 10 August 1912, Page 11
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