SOIREF D.tNS.ANTE.
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".lh, if YOU did but know the pain and "a
tigue of assembling such party you would
pity the fate OF the master Of the house"
Such was the remark made to me by my
friend Mr.. B., Who the evening before had
a ball, or rather soiree dansante, as it is
agreed to use that term, although any thing
bat good French. "It is ihirty years" adj
dcd Mr. B." since | began to entertain
friends at my own hoase. At that period no.
thing was easier. A single lioin was enough
Tor the dance; and the ncighbouring Avern
keeper was happy TO assist my cook in pre-
pairing supper. But how different now-a-
days! A ball is state-affair, Two or three
days arc scarcely sufficient for the prepara-
tions The workmen are all artists, and
Heaven only knows the Difference which it is
necessary to pay these gentlemen They
turn the house out Of the windows. First
comes the upholster, attended by five or six
assistants. He takes my doors off their
hinges: removes my furniture in order to
substitute couches, garlands of flowers, and
card tables; pierces all my curtains with
hooks !; displaces the portrait of my aunt.
which for forty years had never been touch
ed; and dispatches my poor library into the
garnet. The professor of culinary chemistry,
vugarly called the cook, haughtily declares
that he cannot operate in my kitchen, which
is much too small and am compelled to