Show DONT DO IT avold arul 1 irritating subjects subject at as the dinner table why Is it that in most households the dinner table becomes a dumping ground for or the wholesale plaines plaints 0 of its members probably because this is the only meal ot of the day when the entire family meet together each one feels eels it a duty to air a few personal grievances in order to seek consolation from the others says the boston herald butof deference to digestion 1 it for no other reason dinner table tabie conversation should be of the spiciest sp iciest but this fact Is lost sight of in the general desire of everybody from papa down to the youngsters to serve up only those topics which have marred rather than made the days happiness hardly has the man of the house finished his carving duties before he falls into an animated financial discussion with his wife household Hou sebold expenses are rehashed bills grumbled over and the cost cast of living recalculated with tedious regularity mother in her turn eagerly pours into any listening ear her domestic woes boes the days errors below stairs are minutely recorded she sighs over bridgets Bri depts butter waste declares that the butchers indifference toa to her order Is becoming intolerable and so go on then the small boy poor little target tor for flaw picking comes in tor for his big share of criticism ills his failures at school are relentlessly raked up tip and all sorts arts of punishments threatened anle unless a there is speedy reform it there are guests present this talk of the inner circle Is tor for courte I 1 sake a ke given a less personal flavor but only then good cheer and plenty of it is not the motto of the average e family dinner |