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"After-dinner talk" has been thought of great importance. The expression has passed into literature, with many records of the good sayings it included. Kings and ministers condescend to make efforts at it; poets and philosophers -- greater than kings and ministers -- do not disdain to attempt to shine in it.
But nobody has yet shown what "after-supper talk" ought to be. We are not speaking now of the formal entertainment known as "a supper; " we mean the every-day evening meal in the every-day home, -- the meal known heartily and commonly as "supper," among people who are neither so fashionable nor so foolish as to take still a fourth meal at hours when they ought to be asleep in bed.