Show ENGLISH MEALS SHORTENED bende tende tendency racy now Is toward decrease of number of dishes and hi increase crease in speed of service when geurge george tichnor was in england more than seventy seve litY years ago he wan anu ortell often amazed lit at the length of time spent over tho the two formal meals of the day breakfast anil ana dinner it was tithing nothing unusual for the former to last for a couple of hours while a dinner might start tit at and be protracted till midnight and tho the courses were as ninny many and substantial as the meals were lengthy dot but t times have changed with regard to dinners recent years have witnessed says buys a qualified flod observer con considers sidera blo alteration ns as to the number of diches formerly a constant subject 0 of f complaint with regard to dinner parties was that there were too many courses but it things go on as they have been going of late guests will soon boon begin to complain that they have had bad no dinner at all tho the fashionable modern tendency being to give a very light entree la in place placa of the joint which now seldom figures on a menu this and another entree soup a little fish and a very light capet seem to be considered sufficient dinner for even a large party and those guests who do not care asro for the entrees get practically no dinner at all in add addition to this everything to Is served at such lightning speed that it Is as much as one can do to swallow the few mouthfuls mouth fula fuls called dinner before ones plate to la snatched away |