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Show The Changing; Dinner Hour. It Is a curious fact, says the Chicago News, that with almost every generation genera-tion the dinner hour has undergone n change, the principal meal of the day being eaten at different periods from 10 o'clock In the morning -until 10 o'clock at night. The author of "Tho Pleasures of the Table" points out that In England 400 or 500 years ago people took their four meals breakfast break-fast at 7, dinner at 10, supper at 4 and livery at 8. In France in the thirteenth century 0 in the morning was tho dinner din-ner hour; Henry VII. dined at 11. In Cromwell's time 1 o'clock had come to be the fashionable hour, and In Addison's Addi-son's day 2 o'clock, which gradually was transformed Into 4. Pope found fault with Lady Suffolk for dining so late as 4. Four nnd 5 continued to bo tho popular dining hour among the aristocracy until the second decade of the nineteenth century, when dinner was further postponed, from which period It has steadily continued to encroach en-croach upon the evening. |