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Show the rooms were practically refurnished with old furniture, old clocks and bric-a-brac, ud the -hiring of those meant an expenditure of $3,000 more. Here was$i,000 for decorations alone. The dinner itself, with the use of the rooms, cost tho Bradley-Martins, it is said, 10-000, 10-000, so that tho entire expenditure was 810.000. The dinuer which the society man or woniau really cares for is the dinuer given at the. home of the host, which may be as elaborate as any host umy choose, but which, alter all, will bo hU own offering. The dinner which is beyond the resources of the establishment establish-ment in which it is given takes on naturally na-turally the character of an entertain-ment entertain-ment and has not the private and intimate inti-mate character it has w hen tho viands are cooked and served in the same house where they are eaten, Tho only dinner worthy of the name is given bv the master of tho house, anil unless his' knowledge, and his care, and his thought for his guests are to be traced in his arrangements from the dinner, from the selection of the viands themselves, to their delivery on the table in their last and most perfect form, that dinner is not what it should be and the invitation to it is not the compliment that, under other and more favorable eireunistauces, it certainly would be. THE SOCIETY DINNER. It i Ueuouilng Unpleasant by Iteason of IU Kxpenslvenens. From tho New York World. The society dinuer of to day is a much more elaborate and costly affair than it ever was before, and probably a much more elaborate and cosily affair than auything of tho kind given' in any other part of the world. As a matter of fact the profuso decoration characteristic charac-teristic of American dinner tables in swell houses is regarded by tho Kuglish peoplo party with amazement and delight de-light and partly willi the criticism that such display savors of ostentation. Probably the Bradley-Martin dinner at Delnionico'sa short time ago touched the height h of extravagance in dinner giving. The floral decorations on that occasion are said to have cost in the neighborhood of $3,000 Outside, of this the walls were uunj; with tapestries and j |