Show too 4 PRITI SIt HOSiT ALlTY sold to be on the decline the R kes es too Is the art of british hospitality on the gec decline Jine A writer in the london world believes that it is and assigns ys s the cause the adoption for entertaining purposes of that practice of nomadic dining which has been so largely langei y borrowed of late years from the other side of the channel the home dinner party is disappearing he mournfully adds jovingo owing to the of gor gorgeous tco us and palatial restaurants with all their alluring possibilities of vicarious hospitality no one can seriously pretend that to entertain at a restaurant is the same thing as to entertain under ones own roof it is a trouble shirking method of discharging social eel al obligations utterly devoid of the sentiment associated with home flat life is another foreign abomination which is contributing to the downfall of the onci once cherished british institution home life and flat life are ar two totally distinct things and to a large exeunt antagonistic flat dwellers are de barred from entertaining in anny a ny buethe but the most restricted manner mann erand and their only resource is the restaurant again the art of conversation on which the home dinner depended so much fa for r s success is on the decline for today to day so AO great is the dread of mutual boredom that hosts and guests at restaurant an t dinner parties frequently take the precaution to arm themselves en masse with tickets for the play and thereby escape from the necessity of entertaining each other for a moment langri onge than is absolutely necessary yby by adjourn to the theater immediately the repast is concluded |